OWRC Handouts

Quick help on citing sources and tools for storing and organizing sources.

This guide is based on Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 7th edition (2006). The developers of this citation style, Council of Science Editors (CSE), were formerly known as the Council of Biology Editors (CBE). Examples are provided in Name-Year format. Bibliography items are listed alphabetically at the end of the research paper. These items are referred to in the body of the paper using the In-Text style. If none of these examples seem appropriate, consult the CSE Manual available in the Reference collections of both UNE Library Services locations (REF WZ 345 S41646 2006).

Quick help on citing sources and tools for storing and organizing sources.

Quick help on citing sources and tools for storing and organizing sources.

Different cultures have different ideas about what constitutes an appropriate academic paper. In some cultures, where it is politically dangerous to write arguments, students are often taught to piece together their papers from certain “approved” materials. In other cultures, where argument is considered to be an overly “subjective” medium, students are taught to report just “the facts” in their papers. Imagine the distress these students feel when they arrive in America and are asked to create an academic argument.

A checklist for evaluating the quantity and quality of your writing.

Research and the use of different kinds of evidence and texts are important skills and necessary strategies in writing, developing an argument, and participating in academic discourse. In other words, the work you engage in and produce at the university will require you to read about, think about, write about, organize, synthesize, and deploy other people’s ideas, words, concepts, studies, data, and expertise.

Once you’ve decided that a quote should be included in your writing, follow the “three-step” rule to integrate it into your paper.