A. Parenthetical References*

In the body of your report, you must show where borrowed material came from when you use the author’s exact words. Even if you only summarize what you have read or reword a sentence instead of using a quotation (the author’s exact words), you must also give the source.

There are two ways to present a parenthetical reference.

1. Author’s name and page (or pages) in parentheses(17) right after the borrowed material. Do not place a comma after the author’s name.

“Give yourself credit for all the good writing you already do” (Klauser 14).

2. Author’s name in the sentence and page number in parentheses.

Bryson states that the number of words in English far exceeds the 615,000 listed in the revised Oxford Dictionary when you consider that words like mousy, mice and mouselike are counted as only one word (139).

Exercise 13*

Do some research on the history of your area, the province of New Brunswick, or a famous New Brunswicker. Write a paragraph about this. Be sure to use a quote from your reference material and give credit to your source(s) with at least one parenthetical reference.

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