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I can think of an exercise which might help - although I'm not sure how efficient it would be - if the students would be able to solve it. Chose a set of sources for them and give them a task that forces cross-referencing, comparing and binding them. For example, give the students a task of examining and proving or disproving a claim in source A (which you ...

This is called quoting from an indirect source. And, yes, if you don't take your quotations from the original source, you need to acknowledge the intermediary. This is in part to recognize the work that person did, but also to protect yourself in case that person misquoted the original source. I don't know the audience for your work, so I don't know which ...

Way back in 10th grade, when we were learning how to do research papers on the back of a coal shovel, our teacher had us take all our notes on 3x5 cards. We had to submit them as part of the grade — she actually went around with a bag and we had to toss in our rubber-banded stack of cards. Edit to clarify: Each card had one note or thought on it: ...

Generally the rule of thumb with web pages is to treat the title of the page or the domain as the title of the inline citation, so if the page title is 'Google Public Data', go with that. In practice I think that 'Google' is a little too general, because of the number of products Google provide. You would also need to provide the url in your full citation. ...

This applies within the Harvard Referencing system. You may need to check which referencing system you should be working to. If the points taken from source have been separated by other points that are not from source, then yes, you need to recite a reference for each point. If this is the case you may want to consider revising your work so that all the ...

I would not cite your secondary source except to note that it was used to obtain the list of reports that you used to actually write the paper. If you are not using any other content, then you wouldn't have anything else to specifically cite. Some would argue that since these primary sources were available independently, then you would only need to cite ...

I see the §-sign mainly used in legal texts, maybe your co-author has the same problem. If you use the section sign, I would put a space (a small non-breaking) between the sign and the numbers (§ 8.5.2). Using page numbers instead is a nice thing to do, especially if you refer to a single page in a bigger section. If you want to refer to the whole section, ...

I don't know if the rules for citing from speech are any different from those of citing from text, however, if you are to cite something or someone verbatim, you need to put it in quotes, if not also as a separate paragraph. In cases where the article/object of the quote is tacit, you may place it in square brackets as part of the quote. This also applies ...

Yes, just repeat the citation. If you consider beauty aspects, you can also use ibid. for the second citation, but that's depending on your citation style (Vancouver or other stuff).

I think if you indicated somewhere (preface, end notes, first footnote) that the translations are all yours, you could either write the Arabic and then your translation, or write it in English (or whatever language) and footnote it and have the referent be the original Arabic with the citation information. As a reader, I would assume any translation I'm ...

The usual approach is to write both the citation (marked up either with quotes or italics) and its reference with the natural flow, making them visually distinct but semantically following the flow of text seamlessly: As the DK-Handbook recommends, you need to give readers information about the source. How exactly you present the source depends on how ...

I had a professor who did a synthesis lecture using fruit. She brought in a brown paper grocery bag and started pulling out produce one at a time. The purpose was to come up with a general rule to determine if something was a fruit or a vegetable. Apple: Fruit Peas: Vegetable Lettuce: Vegetable Rule 1: Vegetables are green Carrot: Vegetable Potato: ...

There is no rule stating that you have to stick to one in-text citation style or the other for the whole paper. If you're including a direct quote, you need to include the author, year of publication, and the page number for the reference, but they don't all have to be in parentheses. You can mention the author in a signal phrase. I think mixing the two ...

Since the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (commonly called the Vancouver system) is also widely referred to as an Author-Number system, it will necessary to have a number for each author of a multi-chapter compilation (and more than one number for an author who produced two or more chapters). Logically the treatment of ...

The key to your question lies in the phrase no changed meaning by standardizing. The designer of the original publication might have elected to set all article titles in a Gothic font to align with other design elements on the page. We do not feel compelled to retain that font choice when referencing the article; why should capitalisation be treated any ...

I believe the answer is to cite ( and reference ) them as "Microsoft, 2010a" and "Microsoft, 2010b", putting them in date order if you have a more precise date of production, or any order if you don't. It is also a problem for other authors who are especially prolific, and produce multiple related publications in a year. Most of the time, academic authors ...

You can incorporate the secondary source in your narrative. Since your problem section is, most likely, early on in your paper: Paul Ricoeur (1991), in From Text to Action, posits on Hiedegger's interpretation of language, based on Wittgenstein's initial foray into the phenomenology of language. Heidegger analyzes (cite from Ricoeur) Wittgenstein's interest ...