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Why are in-text citations or attributions for sources needed for discussion posts?

Published on Dec 10, 2015

Information for online students who are required to cite sources in their posts to the classroom. It also clarifies in a general sense why citations are needed when using ideas/text from sources.

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Why are in-text citations or attributions for sources needed in discussion posts?

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Identify the sentences with ideas from a source...

Email writing is a common form of personal and professional communication. Ideally, an email should be clear and concise. One method to help clarity is to fill in the subject line with a phrase that is specifically related to the email’s content. Another quality is using the right tone for the audience. Slang or informal words are only appropriate with very familiar audiences, and even then, the informal tone might be confusing or offensive.

KU Writing Center. (n.d.) Writing emails. Retrieved from www.kuwc.com/emails.

All the sentences might represent ideas from KUWC...or just one or two sentences. There's no way to know for sure without help from the writer...

Email writing is a common form of personal and professional communication. Ideally, an email should be clear and concise. One method to help clarity is to fill in the subject line with a phrase that is specifically related to the email’s content (KUWC, n.d.). According to the KUWC article, another quality is using the right tone for the audience. Slang or informal words are only appropriate with very familiar audiences, and even then, the informal tone might be confusing or offensive.

KU Writing Center. (n.d.) Writing emails. Retrieved from www.kuwc.com/emails.

Without explicitly telling the reader which sentences have ideas from a source, the reader may assume all the ideas are yours. This can be considered a form of plagiarism.