Paraphrasing and Quoting For Members Who are Having Trouble Typing Posts.
This is Paraphrasing and Quoting. The first thing I will say; is that when doing this; you have to give Credit to the Original Maker of the material. Now, I am not sure? But, I am pretty sure; that with this; it is enough; to list the website you got the original material from. You at least have to list the website; and if you want to; you can put in front of it: "Source.". You don't need quotation marks for that. Now, for Paraphrasing; you are puttng the material in your own words. In other words; you look at the original material and then put it how you want. You are puttting it as you would say it. Now, for quoting; you need quotation marks: These: "". You put the quotation marks around the material you are copying. For instance; say you wanted to quote: Max; and Max says: I am going boating; then you would do this: Max said: "I am going boating.". See; you have both Max and what he said. And I have to emphasize this again; you have to put the source. I am just going to say here; if you have troubles with English; and or you don't have enough material to post; you may want to try this? But, I have to say too; some other Members warn against Paraphrasing and Quoting; so you may want to ask around? And you may want to ask Kyle and Carrson too? Just type Kyle into the search engine here on WA; click on his name and ask; and after do the same for Carson too; if you want to? And in the replies; if any Members who have warnings against Paraphrasing and Quoting; please feel free to add? Thank you. Hope this helps?
A blog's first 'job' is to be readable and entertaining, which is difficult to be if your reader is constantly being linked away to another site.
If you desperately want to cite your sources then you could simply have a list of the sources at the end of your post like:
Sources for this post are:
Then list the websites
After all, we're not writing academic papers that are going to be put up for peer review.
Having said that - the one place you definitely need citations for are images - unless you obtain them from copyright-free sites such as Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels to name a few.
I didn't use quotation marks. I already knew the facts except for the exact date, which I looked up on wikipedia.
As for paraphrasing nobody owns an idea. If you can write about the same idea and give a different perspective on it you should be OK.
Do you listen to much music? The great guitarists play the same licks. They just use a different phrasing to make it their own. I think it was Eric Clapton who said "Good musicians borrow. Great ones steal."
There are 3 type of source; Primary, Secondary and Tertiary source refrences.
A Primary source is provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, statistical data, pieces of creative writing, audio and video recordings, speeches, and art objects.
Secondary source is when you quote or paraphrase from a source which is mentioned in another text.
Tertiary Sources are include reference materials and textbooks are considered tertiary sources when their chief purpose is to list, summarize or simply repackage ideas or other information.
Tertiary sources are usually not credited to a particular author.
Best to reference all of these types. I give my interpretation of these sources but the I reference the original article when I am writing about it.
Jen