Academic Success: Strengthening Scholarly Writing Discussion 1 Week 2 (Essay Sample)

Strengthening Scholarly Writing Discussion Student’s First Name, Middle Initial(s), Last Name Institutional Affiliation Course Number and Name Instructor’s Name and Title Assignment Due Date Strengthening Scholarly Writing Discussion Scholarly papers are important by making sure that we access most reliable information. In-text citations are used to confirm that the information a paper has been taken from another writer while references are used to show full titles and authors of sources. In-text citation can be found in the body of a paper and even in the body to serve various purposes. First, it can be used to show an information, which have been quoted directly from the source. In this case, the information must be put inside a quotation mark (“”) and the citation becomes at the end of statements. In academic writing, there some information that have to be cited. This information includes statistics, facts, confirmed results etcetera (Unnikrishnan, 2019). On the other hand, common knowledge and the information, which are in the public domain and has been accessed by many people should not be cited. Similarly, our own information, observation, and thoughts should not have in-text citation. Different sources used in writing papers have unique way of doing in-text citation and references list. In-text citation obeys the format of ‘Surname, year’ such as (Unnikrishnan, 2019). The sign “&” is used to connect the surnames incase a source was written by two authors. However, when the source is written by more than 2 authors, the in-text citation should have “et al.,” before the year of publication to mean ‘and others.’ In the references, the name of the author will be in the format of ‘Surname,’ then initials of the middle and the last name. In the 7th edition, all the authors names have to be in the list of references with the sign “&” before the last author as in shown in the reference section (S...