PCOM6000 Survey in Professional Writing: Citing Sources

You must cite your source of information any time you use another person’s ideas, opinion or theory. You must also provide citations for any facts, statistics, graphs, or drawings that are not common knowledge. Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written word and paraphrases of another person's spoken or written words must also be cited.

For additional information about citing sources and avoiding plagiarism, please visit Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

Style/Citation Guides

Most Communication research courses will require you to use the APA Style for citing your sources. Yes, this is different than the AP Style that many of you have used in the past!

APA (American Psychological Association) Style

• American Psychological Association (APA) Guide to Style, 7th ed.  
• American Psychological Association (APA) Style Tutorial

General Citation Resources

• • Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard, CGOS, CBE)

Chicago Style may be used for historical papers. This style can be useful if your research proposal is a historical paper.

• Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition - A multi-page guide to using the Chicago style, produced by Purdue University.
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