In chapter 13 of Bedford Book of Genres, a focus on how to cite and document sources into your academic paper using its appropriate citation style and the integration of different sources is focused on through different composition examples, highlighting the do’s and don’ts for each method and style. This chapter is extremely helpful as we continue to move on into our writing projects and continue to use primary and secondary sources for the development of our research for our community of interest. There are numerous of ways in which one can quote a source and all of this is what builds the overall structure of your writing. Using parenthetical citation or signal phrase, in-text citations, paraphrasing and summarizing in either MLA or APA styles are all the techniques that help strengthen your writing. The integration of sources is something of more importance in regards to the writing of our personal profiles seeing as it is needed to smoothly integrate quotes and facts learned about the community of interest as mentioned by the source that was interviewed in our assignment.
In the chapter it mentions that when quoting from a source it is important to:
1. Introduce a signal to the reader that a source is about to be mentioned, usually by using names of that source.
2. It is also made clear throughout the chapter that when quoting, it is to be made certain that the quotes with four lines do not need to be directly quoted but rather integrated into the writing by paraphrasing.
3. The indentation of these quotations told or cited by this source is essential to contribute into your writing in a crucial way by building and crediting your argument or information that you are providing in your piece.
When you correctly quote or cite source, you are also giving the author’s rite of passage to the credit of these words, also building the credibility of the argument being made in your writing. Using these techniques to credit your source also builds context into your own composition, providing a variety of ideas and evidence to the material of your work to further build that reliability between the reader and your work.