Do I have to reference EVERYTHING in a term paper?

Hello, I'm currently writing a paper about a book in literary studies. Now I'm wondering: Do I have to reference a page for each sentence in the synopsis, for example?

Also, I think I once heard that if the sentence that follows refers to the same footnote, you can omit it, is that true?

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RedPanther
6 months ago

Such a housework should be an exercise for a scientific work.

So, and scientific work are under the motto “I found out that…”. What in the end means that for everything you write in your work you have found out this yourself. As own intellectual property.

Apart from what one makes clear that one has not found out that it is not one’s own intellectual property, but that one has taken it from another. This marking is done with a clear source indication and, if you accept not only the info but even the wording, as a direct quotation.

Accordingly: Everything you didn’t work out yourself needs a source!

For example, do I have to refer to a page in each sentence?

Of course not. If you take a break from something yourself, formulate it and establish it, that’s your own work. You have to say where you have it when you take an info from this book. Or even zitierst.

I mean, once you’ve heard that if you’re referring to the same footnote, you can’t do it, right?

How you solve it grammatically is irrelevant. So how you share your argument in main and secondary sentences. It’s about Statements. You need a source (so that is book, page and, if necessary, Vers/Sales meant) do not repeat several times if you need several sentences to make your statement to this source. You make a proof of source according to the statement “in the book this stands and that” and after that you bring your argument what you conclude.

HappyMe1984
6 months ago

You have to make everything you didn’t think of yourself known as such not your own thoughts. So if you write in your introduction, what topic you treat and why, then these are your own thoughts – you don’t have to bear with a source. On the other hand, if you give someone, directly or indirectly, you must also apply the reference to the citation rules.

By the way, it is by no means bad in scientific work if you quote a lot – quite the contrary! So you officially use DARFST many sources, quotes and references that even underpins the value of your statements! But you always have to specify who originally published this thought, so you must not decorate yourself with strange feathers. This is the basic rule in scientific work.

Erwin71770812
1 month ago

Your questions are perfectly justified. There are specialist areas where housework is never written. Suddenly the student should be able to.

I have been teaching students for years and knowing the problems.

steefi
6 months ago

Do you not learn how to quote correctly? Who does not do this can get problems!

steefi
6 months ago
Reply to  RochadenPaul

But I wouldn’t rely on the answers here…