Tuesday, August 3, 2010

APA Referencing System

The APA Referencing System is when you have to acknowledge the maker of the piece of infomation you have taken of the Internet or a Book by putting it in a Bibliography to show who the source of your infomation. If you do not make a bibliograghy to show your charged with plagiarism by the courts and be trialed and charged. You must inclued in your Bibliography:
  • The authors last name.
  • TheYear the Infomation was published.
  • A phrase from the source.
  • The page number.
Example:


The feminist perspective offers exciting possibilities for us to re-see and reinterpret works of art, as Huffington (1988) demonstrates in her biography of Picasso:

What seemed a life guided by burning passions – for painting, for women, for ideas – seemed a moment later the story of a man unable to love, intent on seduction not in the search for love, not even in the desire to possess, but in a compulsion to destroy. (p.10)

From Writing About Art (p. 10), by H. M. Sayre. (1999). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Copyright 1999 by H. M. Sayre.

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