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1 .       As long as you give a complete citation for all of your sources at the end of your paper, it is not necessary to attribute your sources in the body of the paper. 

 
 


2 .       Each style manual uses the same basic procedure for identifying sources in the body of your paper. 

 
 


3 .       The purpose for attributing is to let your reader know how much work you did in preparing your paper. 

 
 


4 .       It doesn’t really matter where you place your attribution in the body of your paper, as long as it’s within the same paragraph as the use of the original source. 

 
 


5 .       You should always give as much information about a source as you can in the body of your paper. 

 
 


6 .       One good way to let your reader know that you are referring to an outside source is to use “signal phrases.” 

 
 


7 .       In every style manual, citations are found on a separate page at the end of the body of the paper. 

 
 


8 .       According to the MLA style manual, citations are alphabetically arranged on a separate page at the end of a paper. 

 
 


9 .       APA uses “References” alphabetically arranged at the end of a paper while MLA uses “Works Cited.” 

 
 


10 .       In MLA style, electronic sources are identified in the body of a paper in exactly the same way as more conventional sources. 

 
 






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