In-Text Citations - Practice
Practice the terminology of in-text citations
Six easy drag and drop exercises
The following six sentences all contain in-text citations. In each sentence, drag the bubbles to show that you can identify each part of the sentence (quotation, citation, author, paraphrase, and signal phrase), as in the animation (mouse over the animation to stop it). The text turns red if you have labeled it correctly.
This is an exercise to practice identifying quotations, citations, authors, paraphrases, and signal phrases in six sentences:
The following six sentences all contain in-text citations. In each sentence, drag the bubbles to show that you can identify each part of the sentence, as in the animation (mouse over the animation to stop it). The text turns red if you have labeled it correctly.
- In his book The Shock of the New (1991, p. 324),Robert Hughes claimed that "Unlike our Grandparents, we live in a world that we ourselves made".
- In the early nineteen thirties, according to Fleming (1935), some 500 British Indian subjects were resident in the province of Sinkiang.
- According to Piaget (1929) the child organises his experience through ‘schema’; and according to Kelly (1955) people organise their experience through ‘personal constructs’.
- Heron and Chown (1961, p. 16) concluded that "Industry in general simply does not acknowledge a problem of ageing".
- Cirilo & Foss found that "readers are sensitive to the structure of a story as they read it" (1980, p.104) and were able to distinguish high and low level propositions.
- Mick Jagger complained that he could "get no satisfaction" (Jagger & Richards, 1965).
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