2.6 How do I show what are my ideas and someone else's ideas?
To show someone else's ideas, you must always provide a citation for every piece of information you use that is not an idea from your own head or considered to be common knowledge
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You can signal to your reader that you are using information from someone else by using the author's last name in the sentence in which you paraphrase that person's ideas.
For example: Smith (2006) states that ....
There are many other ways of signalling to the reader that you are using someone else's ideas.
For example: While Smith (2006) argues that ..., Tait (2013) believes that .... In contrast to both these researchers, I argue that ....
To indicate something is your own idea, use "I" (if your professor allows first-person in assignment). Avoid using "we" or "us" unless you are working as a group.
NOTE: you always need to include an in-text citation, as well as a complete reference in the reference list.
For more ideas on how to integrate your ideas with secondary source research, see:
Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. (2010). They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. Second Edition. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-93361-1
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Is it okay if we divide the lab reports between people so each of us only does one lab report? Great idea! One lab report per person!
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It's cheating if you don't do your own work!
