They think that just including an "(Author, date)" APA citation is all they have to do, regardless of what they have used from that author.
Quotes, if from a numbered document, require a page number. It is a flag to say "this is exactly where I borrowed this from". The marker allows both yourself and others to return to the exact spot that the borrowing originated. It also indicates who wrote the words.
I often have students who have referenced (great), but who haven't yet indicated who wrote the actual words. I point out that it is fine to borrow from others, as long as we put the borrowings in quote marks to show that this writing was created by someone else. I tell them that we do this by using double quote marks as a flag to the reader to say these are "the EXACT words of the author" (UNE, 2015, p. 1).
Please note the inclusion of the page number there :-)
However, this seems to be such a hard idea to get across. So I thought of an analogy. I tell my students that it is like someone saying to us "I love your pants!" And we say:
"Yes, I got the idea from Sam!"
When we should have said "Yes - they're Sam's pants. Aren't they great?!".
I think this illustrates the difference in borrowing ideas versus borrowing things. But I would be interested in any other analogies you have come up with - the more the merrier!
Sam
- Reference: UNE (2015). APA: Quoting authors. USA: University of New England. Retrieved 25 June 2017 from https://www.une.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/11669/REF_APA-Quoting-authors.pdf
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