essential writing skills

Citing

giving credit to author of the words, ideas, concepts or data in a specific format determined by your discipline.

in-text citations

are notes that identify the source of an idea, or content that writers reference in a sentence, paragraph, an image, a chart, other visual presentations

parenthetical in-text citations

the authors name and publication date appear in the parentheses. (Koehler, 2016).

narrative in-text citations

author name is incorporated into the text as part of the sentence and the year follows in parentheses eg. Koehler (2016)

plagiarism

taking for your own use the words, ideas, concepts or data of someone else without giving proper credit.

Paraphrasing

allows you to use your own words to restate an authors ideas, when paraphrasing keep the same meaning of orig text, make it in a way that makes sense to you

summarizing

condensing authors words or ideas without altering meaning or interpretation

direct quoting

reproduces words verbatim from another work or from your own previously published work ex. “high perf along one domain does not translate to high performance along another”(Ervin et al., 2018. p. 470)