Are you frustrated by recent changes to the APA guidelines?  Remember that if you have a long direct quote, it is cited differently.

Place direct quotations longer than 40 words in a free-standing block of typewritten lines, and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, indented five spaces from the left margin. Type the entire quotation on the new margin, and indent the first line of any subsequent paragraph within the quotation five spaces from the new margin. Maintain double-spacing throughout. The parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

To see how this will look, go to the owl.english.purdue site by clicking here.

1.  The first thing you'll need to do is to actually read the article, highlighting or underlining significant words, phrases, or ideas you think you'll use in your paper.

2.  Start writing your response or at least brainstorming the points you want/need to cover.

3.  You can refer to the article(s) in a couple of ways: direct quotes or summarizing.

4.  Click on this link to see an example of using a direct quote in your paper. 

5.  If you use the author's name to introduce or end the quote, you do not need to include his or her name in the parentheses following the quote.  Here's an example. 


6.  If you summarize or paraphrase part of an article, book, Web site, etc., you still need to give credit.  In other words, even if you use your own words, but basically restate what you've read, you should cite the source.  Look here for an example.


7.  Here's another example of incorporating an author's ideas, but giving proper credit.

8.  When citing indirect sources (quotes from a source in another source), follow these guidelines from Purdue University's OWL Writing Lab:


"Sometimes you may have to use an indirect source. An indirect source is a source cited in another source. For such indirect quotations, use "qtd. in" to indicate the source you actually consulted. For example:

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).

9.  Got it?  Now, to create your actual Bibliography or Works Cited page, go back to the EGRHS blog (egrhs.blogspot.com) and look over on the right hand side of the page for citation creator links.  This is what your Works cited entry will look like:
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Works Cited