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Well, what citation format are you using? And are the paraphrased paragraph and the direct quote from the same page? How long is the paragraph? At what point does it transition from paraphrase to your own thoughts?
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Its pretty much just a paraphrase with one or two direct quotes, the average paragraph is an average paragraph of say 100 words. Though I have some 1-3 sentance ones of 40 words as well.
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You can put a footnote at the end of a paragraph, if the rest of the paragraph is basically paraphrasing something that someone else said. It's what I do, and I haven't had any complaints. Or footnote the quote AND the paragraph, if you really want to be sure.
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In every format I've ever used (and I've written lots of papers over the time I was in school), you must provide a citation for direct quotes at the end of that quote. You can cite at the end of the paragraph if all the material paraphrased is from the same source.
I've mostly used MLA and APA, but there've been a couple of other methods in there that I can't recall to name right now, but they've all been pretty much uniform on this matter.
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I find footnotes very difficult to read in the middle of a test. Especially if you're wearing shoes and socks.
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Use them at the end of every direct quotation and at the end of every statement that is not your own thought / work. Yes, this means you should have a lot of references. That's how it works in science anyway. There are few things in life that are more infuriating than trying to duplicate and understand the thought process behind work that is improperly referenced. Further, the first reference should always be the first time the statement has appeared in print.
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Quite frankly, if you can't get apostrophes right, I don't see why you're worried about footnotes. Personally I would fail you right there.
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KoM, could you please find a more constructive way to express your thought?
NOTE: We've ust gone through a bitter few weeks here, and it would seem to me that many of the folks have made a real effort to kick their grammar and usage up a knotch. A forum is pretty informal communication. And even if someone is making really egregious mistakes, that's no reason to cut them down so brutally.
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