<p>i just found out my research paper for english is 33%. it is pretty much crap. any advice on bs ing it?</p>
<p>My research paper for English is due tomorrow as well. It's worth... a large percentage of my grade. Don't know how much. I have yet to procrastinate the first three pages of my seven-page paper.</p>
<p>if i am using data from an interview i conducted, but i am not using word by word, do i still have to quote it?</p>
<p>no, you shouldn't quote it if it is not verbatim, but you should cite it, if possible.</p>
<p>^what do u mean by "citing it" ?</p>
<p>Cite it in your bibliography. I'm using an interview as well, and I cited it in my Works Cited page at the end of the paper.</p>
<p>yeah but do u have to do anything in the sentence?</p>
<p>example</p>
<p>christopher columbus arrived to america in 1492. </p>
<p>my interviewee said something along those lines in the interview but not the exact same words. so would it be correct to just leave it like that?</p>
<p>Put it in quotes. If you need to add a few words of your own to make the sentence sound better, use [brackets].</p>
<p>yep, what kchen said. put it in your Works Cited page at the end, and you're supposed to use parenthetical documentation (example <a href="http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/mlaparen.html%5B/url%5D">http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/mlaparen.html</a> if you're not sure), wherever you mention the info in your paper</p>
<p>if your interviewee said "somehting along those lines," then you don't want to quote it.. you want to say:
soandso said that christopher columbus arrived to america in 1492 (parentheticaldoc..).</p>
<p>^hold on. if u are introducing the author of the statement (soandso), then why would u need to parentheticaldoc it?</p>
<p>good point. i forgot about that part.. but you would still need it if, say, it were from a book, for then you'd put the page number in parenthesis...</p>
<p>i'm not sure how to do parenthetical notation for interviews.. but it would probably want something like who conducted the interview or where or something like that in parenthesis... but if you were to mention all the required stuff in the sentence, then you wouldn't use parenthetical notation.</p>
<p>My best friend when it comes to developing a Works Cited: workscited4u.com</p>
<p>yeah, because even if you are mentioning who said it, you need to tell the reader where this person said it.</p>
<p>i have to pull an all-nighter for chem...(sigh)</p>
<p>Eee! Almost done with the third page of my research paper.</p>
<p>how many pages is your research paper?</p>
<p>Isn't the fact that Columbus arrived in 1492 kind of common knowledge, which therefore doesn't need to be cited? Just curious.</p>
<p>^ If you're taking specific information word for word from a book, you have to quote it and cite it. If you're just paraphrasing something about Columbus arriving in 1492, I don't think it's necessary because it's in your own words (people know about Columbus & 1492 anyway).</p>