Acknowledge ment Essays - Punctuation, Language, Writing

Acknowledge ment At the very outset of my assignment I would like to thank Almighty Allah for his magnificence to complete my assigned work. I also show my gratitude to my honorable teacher, Md. Nuruzzaman for assigning us such an interesting assignment which is challenging and at the same time motivating .I am also indebted to my friends who has always been a guide to give my assignment a perfect shape. Finally, to give my assignment a grand success. I have carefully worked on necessary books to produce a paper where I am held responsible for my shortcomings. Seikh Tanvir Mehedi (141412) Trishna Majumder (141422) Md. Imtiaz Uddin Sikder (141432) Goutam Kumar Paul (141442) Abir Hasan (131414) INDEX Title. 03 In text citation. 04 Citation of prose. 04-05 Reference.... 06 TITLE In Text Citation A citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work. Citation has several important purposes: to uphold intellectual honesty, to attribute prior or unoriginal work determined independently whether the referenced material supports the authors arguments in the claimed way, and to help the reader gauge thus strength and validity of the material the author has used. In text citation is important for three reasons- First, it gives credit to the source you are citing. If you do not use in text citation, you may be guilty of plagiarism. Second, it allows your reader to find your research, either to verify your use or to find out more about the topic. Third, it gives you authority, making it clear your ideas are built on careful research. Citation of Prose Short Quote : i) If a prose quotation runs no more than four lines and requires no special emphasis, put it in quotation marks and incorporate it into the text. Examples: According to Stephen Booth: "Shakespeare was almost certainly homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual. The sonnets provide no evidence on the matter." According to Smith: "Sales people with high need for achievement sell the most kitchen appliances whereas those with low need for achievement are better at selling garden tools." ii) You need not always reproduce complete sentences. Sometimes you may want to quote just a word or phrase as part of your sentence. Examples: For Charles Dickens the eighteenth century was both "the age of wisdom" and "the age of foolishness." iii) You may put a quotation at the beginning, middle or end of your sentence or for the sake of variety or better style, divide it by your own words. Example: "The upper jaw fuses to the skill: Chewing, biting and shouting move the mobile lower jaw against this stable brace." Explains Stephen Jay Gould that in most mammals and birds. "Poets", according to Shelley, "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. iv) If a quotation ending a sentence requires a parenthetical reference, place the sentence period after the reference. Example: Shelley held a bold view: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"(794). According to Stephen Booth: "Shakespeare was almost certainly homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual. The sonnets provide no evidence on the matter"(548). Long Quote: i) If a quotation runs to more than four lines in your paper, set it off from your text by beginning a new line, including one inch (or ten spaces if you are using a typewriter) from the left margin, and typing it double spaced, without adding quotation marks. A colon generally introduces a quotation displace in this way, though sometimes the context may require a different mark of punctuation or none at all. If you quote only a single paragraph or part of one, do not indent the first line more than the rest. A parenthetical reference to a prose quotation set off from the text follows the last line of the quotation. Example: Stephen Jay Gould argues that arriving clear distinctions or categorizations is extremely difficult: Nature, in some respects, comes to us as continue, not as discrete objects with clear boundaries. One of nature's many continua extends from colonist at one end to organisms at the other. Even the basic terms-organism and colony-have not precise and unambiguous definitions may, however, use the two criteria of our vernacular as a guide. We tend to call a biological object an organism if it maintains