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Parenthetical Annotations

Guidelines

Whenever you use someone else’s research or ideas (whether quoted or paraphrased), you MUST give credit to the author. The accepted method of doing this is to use the "parenthetical annotation" method.

Using paraphrases in your paper is appropriate, but you must give credit to the author for the ideas or facts. At the end of the information (before the end punctuation), in parentheses write the last name of the author and the page number (no "P") where you found it.

Example: …After the information has been analyzed, it is sent to the higher centers of the brain where a complete picture is put together. The brain then evaluates the information and either stores it for later use or sends a return message to the muscles and glands, which react appropriately (Jennings 26).

If you use a direct quote from a source, write the quote using the appropriate quotation marks, then (before the end punctuation) add the parentheses with the author’s last name and the page number (as with a paraphrase).

Example: …"The cells that receive the information in the cortex of the brain are arranged in a regular pattern in columns…. Each cell within each column has a specific responsibility to…analyze certain kinds of incoming information" (Jennings 26).