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改写与直接引用:何时使用哪一种

当精确措辞本身就是证据时直接引用;当你需要用自己的句法写出那个想法时改写。两者都仍需标注出处。本页遵循 APA Style quotations 与 paraphrases 页面(Publication Manual, 7th ed., §§8.23–8.35)、MLA Handbook 第 9 版 §§4.5–4.11、Chicago Manual of Style 18 §§12.9–12.10 与 13.1、UW–Madison quoting and paraphrasing handbook,以及 UNC quotations handout。这是句子级的选择。伦理见如何避免剽窃;块引缩进规则见如何格式化块引用;定位信息见释义时需要页码吗。

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如何在改写与直接引用之间选择:简要回答

APA Style 告诉学生作者:大多数时候应改写,只有在需要讨论定义、一句难忘的话,或精确措辞本身时才直接引用。MLA 9 §4.9 用不同的话说同一件事:只引用特别贴切的内容,让每条引文保持简短,并说明它为何在此。Chicago 18 §13.1 要求直接引用和改写都标注出处。若能用自己的句法说出那个想法,就改写。若改词会改变主张,就直接引用。若只需要长段的大意,就概述。

判断模板(标注你实际读过的版本)

在下列情况直接引用:

  • 措辞本身就是证据(法令、定义、新造术语、诗行)。
  • 你将分析用词、语气或修辞。
  • 一句简短而著名的话,一经改写就会失去力量。

在下列情况改写:

  • 你需要的是发现、方法或论证,而不是作者的措辞。
  • 你能重造句子,使词语和句法都是你自己的。
  • 你能比原句更清楚地说明要点。

在下列情况概述:

  • 你需要的是长段的主旨,而不是其支撑细节。
  • 你在把若干出处综合成一条主张。

始终:

改写和直接引用都要标注。新词并不转让想法的所有权。

American Psychological Association 用本页所遵循的两句话陈述这一偏好。各大学对 APA Style quotations 页面的转载(Oral Roberts、University of Valley Forge,以及 Education University of Hong Kong 的 EGAP 指南)使用同一措辞:

APA Style,“Quotations”

It is best to paraphrase sources rather than directly quoting them because paraphrasing allows you to fit material to the context of your paper and writing style.
Use direct quotations rather than paraphrasing: when reproducing an exact definition (see Section 6.22 of the Publication Manual), when an author has said something memorably or succinctly, or when you want to respond to exact wording (e.g., something someone said).

直接引用、改写与概述实际上是什么

直接引用逐字复制词语并加以标记。APA Style:"A direct quotation reproduces words verbatim from another work or from your own previously published work." 改写用新词和新的句子结构重述想法。APA Style:"A paraphrase restates another’s idea (or your own previously published idea) in your own words." MLA 9 §4.5 补充了为何这种重写很重要:

MLA Handbook 9 §4.5

Paraphrasing allows you to maintain your voice while demonstrating that you understand the source because you can restate its points in your own words and with your own sentence structure.

换几个同义词却保留原句法,并不是改写。那是拼贴改写(patchwriting),写作中心即使看到出处也会把它当作剽窃。概述更短:保留主张,丢掉支撑细节。MLA Style Center 关于融入引文的课(为第 8 版而写;第 9 版仍是同样三项任务)这样分工:直接引用以强调独特意见、语气或风格;改写以强调事实而非风格;概述以强调主旨而非支撑细节。三者都仍需标注出处。

页上真正要紧的差别
检验直接引用改写概述
措辞出处中的原词你的词,不是同义词典覆盖层你的词,经过压缩
句子形状保留,除非有标出的删节或 [clarifications]重造,使句法属于你重造并缩短
标记引号,或无引号的块引不用引号不用引号
出处必须,并带页码、段号、行号或时间戳必须;指向某段时加上定位信息必须
在文中的工作你将讨论的证据被吸收进你论证的想法较长段落的大意

何时直接引用

MLA 9 §4.10:当精确措辞对你的主张很重要、表述特别有力,或你要聚焦出处中的语言时,就直接引用。不要用引用代替理解。UW–Madison 补充四条与手册一致的研究论文理由:表明权威支持你的观点;呈现你将批评的立场;纳入具有历史意义的语言;或保留一经改写就会改变含义的段落。

措辞本身就是证据

法律文本、官方定义和新造术语必须照抄。把第一修正案改写成「国会不应选定国教」,会丢掉法庭实际阅读的条款。National Archives 转写 的 Amendment I 才是应引用的出处:

应保持引用的精确措辞

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

APA 文内:

The First Amendment opens by stating that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" (U.S. Const. amend. I).

MLA 9 §4.11 以同样方式使用 Michael Agar 的新造术语。若你借用这个词,词要加引号,页码要进出处:

MLA Handbook 9 §4.11 (Agar)

出处中的段落:

Everyone uses the word language and everybody these days talks about culture. . . . “Languaculture” is a reminder, I hope, of the necessary connection between its two parts. . . .

错误(盗用术语,无出处):

At the intersection of language and culture lies a concept that has been called “languaculture.”

正确:

At the intersection of language and culture lies a concept that Michael Agar calls “languaculture” (60).

Works Cited:

Agar, Michael. Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation. HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.

句子令人难忘,改写会把它压平

对名句的改写可以准确,却仍是错误选择。Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963 年 4 月 16 日的 Letter from Birmingham Jail,以 University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center 的转写为准,才是学生真正需要的那一句。标注你读过的版本——那份 Penn 文本、Stanford King Institute 摘要,或 1964 年的书 Why We Can't Wait。

当措辞本身就是主张时引用

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

无力的改写(准确但无锋):

King argued that injustice in one city endangers justice in others because communities are connected.

更好地使用这句引文:

King refuses the "outside agitator" charge by collapsing the distance between cities: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

John F. Kennedy 1961 年 1 月 20 日的就职演说,以 American Presidency Project 的转写为准,属于同一类情形。回文交叉就是证据:

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

改写(失去转折):

Kennedy asked Americans to think about national service instead of personal benefits (Kennedy, 1961).

你在分析语言

在文学分析中,页上的词就是数据。引用那一行,然后用至少同样多的自己的话说明它在做什么。Folger Shakespeare Library 的 Romeo and Juliet 2.2 文本印的是 "word",不是谚语里的 "name":

MLA 文内诗行(两行,一条斜线)

Juliet tests the difference between a person and a label: "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet" (2.2.46–47).

你需要说话者的精确主张

UNC Writing Center quotations handout 这样使用 Harriet Jacobs:当第一人称证人陈述你的论证所依赖的区分时,就引用这一区分。Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(1861),第 XIV 章,女儿出生之后;UNC 引用的是 1987 年 Yellin 版:

UNC Writing Center (Jacobs)

Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.

UNC 的嵌入句:

Harriet Jacobs, a former slave from North Carolina, published an autobiographical slave narrative in 1861. She exposed the hardships of both male and female slaves but ultimately concluded that “slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.”

何时改写

APA Style 的 paraphrases 页面经 Alamo Colleges 与 Oral Roberts 转载后说得很直白:已发表作者大多数时候都在改写。MLA 9 §4.6 列出改写的工作:压缩长段、保持对论证的控制,并表明你了解这场讨论。UW–Madison 补充理工与社会科学习惯:概述方法与发现;只引用那句措辞本身就是要点的罕见句子。

APA Style,“Paraphrases”

Paraphrasing allows you to summarize and synthesize information from one or more sources, focus on significant information, and compare and contrast relevant details.
Published authors paraphrase their sources most of the time, rather than directly quoting the sources; student authors should emulate this practice by paraphrasing more than directly quoting.

官方 APA 示范改写

Style Center 自己的叙述式改写,经 Alamo Colleges APA 指南转载,是应照抄的模式:点名出处、重述想法,再加定位信息,因为该段在一本长书里。

APA Style Center 改写(Webster-Stratton)

Webster-Stratton (2016) described a case example of a 4-year-old girl who showed an insecure attachment to her mother; in working with the family dyad, the therapist focused on increasing the mother’s empathy for her child (pp. 152–153).

官方示范:MLA 9 §4.7

手册自己的不可接受/可接受对照,是应记住的那一对。出处是 Walter A. McDougall,Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776(Houghton Mifflin, 1997),第 37 页。只换同义词不够,因为它仍保留 McDougall 的句子:

MLA Handbook 9 §4.7 (McDougall)

出处中的段落:

American Exceptionalism as our founders conceived it was defined by what America was, at home. Foreign policy existed to defend, not define, what America was.

不可接受(骨架相同):

American exceptionalism as the founding fathers envisioned the concept was given meaning by America as a homeland. Programs focused on other countries were there to protect America, not delineate it.

可接受:

As conceived, American exceptionalism was based on the country’s domestic identity, which foreign policy did not shape but merely guarded.

写入你的正文,并致谢:

As Walter A. McDougall argues, for the founding fathers American exceptionalism was based on the country’s domestic identity, which foreign policy did not shape but merely guarded (37).

Works Cited:

McDougall, Walter A. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

MLA 的下一句是学生常跳过的例外:有些术语不能改写。American exceptionalism、capitalism 和 democracy 保留。引用新造词;保留该领域的普通词汇。

如何写改写:先改结构

UW–Madison 的方法与写作中心的通常顺序是同一套程序。它也与如何做研究笔记中的笔记标签一致:在离开书本之前把该行标成改写。先改结构。再改词语。UW 的教学段落是 Ellen Ross,Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870–1918(Oxford University Press, 1993),第 9 页:

  1. 反复阅读该段,直到不看也能解释。
  2. 合上出处。像对同学讲述那样写出这个想法。
  3. 先改结构(从别处起笔、拆分或合并句子),再改词语。
  4. 再打开出处。若除了一个独特术语之外仍有重合,就重写。
  5. 标注出处。若你保留了一句醒目短语,就在改写内部给该短语加引号。

UW–Madison:Ross, Love and Toil, p. 9

出处中的段落:

Love and Toil maintains that family survival was the mother’s main charge among the large majority of London’s population who were poor or working class; the emotional and intellectual nurture of her child or children and even their actual comfort were forced into the background. To mother was to work for and organize household subsistence. (p. 9)

UW 完成的改写:

According to Ross (1993), poor children at the turn of the century received little mothering in our sense of the term. Mothering was defined by economic status, and among the poor, a mother’s foremost responsibility was not to stimulate her children’s minds or foster their emotional growth but to provide food and shelter to meet the basic requirements for physical survival. Given the magnitude of this task, children were deprived of even the “actual comfort” (p. 9) we expect mothers to provide today.

拼贴改写:看起来像改写的失败

MLA 9 §4.7 已经展示了 McDougall 的骨架。UW–Madison 给出学生真正会失手的更长诊断:一项真实的护理研究、三份学生改写,以及共享语言例外。出处是 Susan K. Chase,"The social context of critical care clinical judgment," Heart and Lung 24 (1995): 154–162,第 156 页。学生的作业是一篇关于专家与非专家的论文。

UW–Madison:Chase 1995 出处句

Critical care nurses function in a hierarchy of roles. In this open heart surgery unit, the nurse manager hires and fires the nursing personnel. The nurse manager does not directly care for patients but follows the progress of unusual or long-term patients. On each shift a nurse assumes the role of resource nurse.
The nurse manager, nurse clinician, and clinical nurse specialist are the designated experts. They do not take patient assignments. The resource nurse is seen as both a caregiver and a resource to other caregivers. . . . Staff nurses have a hierarchy of seniority. . . . Staff nurses are assigned to patients to provide all their nursing care. (Chase, 1995, p. 156)

逐字剽窃

UW 的第一份改写保留了 Chase 的顺序和大部分短语,且没有点名出处。即使加上出处,未加标记的句子仍是剽窃:

UW–Madison:逐字剽窃

Critical care nurses have a hierarchy of roles. The nurse manager hires and fires nurses. S/he does not directly care for patients but does follow unusual or long-term cases. On each shift a resource nurse attends to the functioning of the unit as a whole, such as making sure beds are available in the operating room, and also has a patient assignment.

加了出处的拼贴仍是剽窃

第二份改写确实点名了 Chase。这还不够。UW 的判定:加下划线的短语仍是 Chase 的语言,只是重排,没有引号。

UW–Madison:拼贴改写

Chase (1995) describes how nurses in a critical care unit function in a hierarchy that places designated experts at the top and the least senior staff nurses at the bottom. The experts — the nurse manager, nurse clinician, and clinical nurse specialist — are not involved directly in patient care. The staff nurses, in contrast, are assigned to patients and provide all their nursing care. Within the staff nurses is a hierarchy of seniority in which the most senior can become resource nurses: they are assigned a patient but also serve as a resource to other caregivers. The experts have administrative and teaching tasks such as selecting and orienting new staff, developing unit policies, and giving hands-on support where needed.

正当的改写

成功的改写改变了段落的任务(跨职业比较专家与非专家)、重造句子、标注 Chase,并把唯一借用的短语放进引号:

UW–Madison:正当改写

In her study of the roles of nurses in a critical care unit, Chase (1995) also found a hierarchy that distinguished the roles of experts and others. Just as the educational experts described above do not directly teach students, the experts in this unit do not directly attend to patients. That is the role of the staff nurses, who, like teachers, have their own “hierarchy of seniority” (p. 156). The roles of the experts include employing unit nurses and overseeing the care of special patients (nurse manager), teaching and otherwise integrating new personnel into the unit (clinical nurse specialist and nurse clinician), and policy-making (nurse clinician). In an intermediate position in the hierarchy is the resource nurse, a staff nurse with more experience than the others, who assumes direct care of patients as the other staff nurses do, but also takes on tasks to ensure the smooth operation of the entire facility.

不必加引号的共享语言

UW 的最后一步是学生矫枉过正之处。Nurse manager、clinical nurse specialist、resource nurse 和 staff nurses 在正当改写中没有引号。那是该领域的惯用名称,不是 Chase 的独特措辞。引用 Agar 的 "languaculture" 这类新造词。不要给学科的普通词汇加引号。

UW–Madison:不必标记的共享语言

Conventional designations: e.g., physician’s assistant, chronic low-back pain
Preferred bias-free language: e.g., persons with disabilities
Technical terms and phrases of a discipline or genre: e.g., reduplication, cognitive domain, material culture, sexual harassment

各体例如何格式化引文

决定引用是共同的。长度检验不是。APA 数词。MLA 数页上的行。Chicago 数词和段。不要把 APA 的 40 词块引规则套到 MLA 论文上。缩进、行距和句号后出处规则见如何格式化块引用。

文内引文与块引
体例把引文留在句中设为块引定位信息
APA 7 §§8.25–8.27不足 40 词,加引号40 词及以上:缩进 0.5 英寸,无引号,双倍行距同一句中的页码、段号或其他位置
MLA 9(Style Center / 第 6 章)不足四行的散文;一至三行用斜线的诗行超过四行的散文,或需要按行展示的诗:缩进 0.5 英寸,无引号句后的页码、行号、幕.场.行,或时间戳
CMOS 18 §§12.9–12.10加引号的短文内引文约 100 词及以上(大约 6–8 行)、两段及以上,或特殊格式文本(列表、书信、两行及以上诗行)带页码或其他定位的注释或著者–年份出处

短引文

APA Style,经 Education University of Hong Kong EGAP 指南转载:"For quotations of fewer than 40 words, add quotation marks around the words and incorporate the quote into your own text—there is no additional formatting needed." 除非出处本身有省略号,否则不要在首尾添加。"For a direct quotation, always include a full citation (parenthetical or narrative) in the same sentence as the quotation, including the page number (or other location information, e.g., paragraph number)."

APA 7 短引文(官方 Ervin 样例)

Effective teams can be difficult to describe because “high performance along one domain does not translate to high performance along another” (Ervin et al., 2018, p. 470).

叙述式模板:

Name (2020) argues that "quoted words" (p. 12).

括号式模板:

The study reports that "quoted words" (Name, 2020, p. 12).

块引

块引是格式后果,不是美德。APA 去掉引号,把括号出处放在最后标点之后。MLA 和 Chicago 也如此。Red Deer Polytechnic 的 CMOS 18 教学页重述 §12.10:约一百词(至少 6–8 行)的引文一般可设为块引,两段及以上的引文应当如此。用完整句子加冒号引入块引,然后用下一句说明这些行为何重要。若你只需要两个分句,就砍掉块引,只引那些分句。

APA 7 官方块引(Alderson-Day and Fernyhough)

Researchers have studied how people talk to themselves:
Inner speech is a paradoxical phenomenon. It is an experience that is central to many people’s everyday lives, and yet it presents considerable challenges to any effort to study it scientifically. Nevertheless, a wide range of methodologies and approaches have combined to shed light on the subjective experience of inner speech and its cognitive and neural underpinnings. (Alderson-Day & Fernyhough, 2015, p. 957)

页码、注释与长改写

APA 要求每条直接引用都带定位信息,并建议在改写特定段落时加上。MLA 9 §4.8 要求文内出处指向 works-cited 条目,对有页码的书还要指向页码。Chicago 18 §13.1 把出处视为直接引用和改写的伦理要求;§13.20 接着要求针对某一段的注释只带该段的页码。旧课堂捷径「引文要页码,改写不要」在 Chicago 中是错的,在 APA 与 MLA 中也不完整。定位表见释义时需要页码吗。

APA Style,长改写(§8.24)

A paraphrase may continue for several sentences. In such cases, cite the work being paraphrased on first mention. Once the work has been cited, it is not necessary to repeat the citation as long as the context of the writing makes it clear that the same work continues to be paraphrased.
If the paraphrase continues into a new paragraph, reintroduce the citation. If the paraphrase incorporates multiple sources or switches among sources, repeat the citation so the source is clear.

Style Center 自己的多句改写,经 Alamo 转载,是 Velez 及同事关于职场歧视的段落。第一次提及处的一条出处覆盖该段其余部分:

APA Style Center 长改写(Velez et al.)

Velez et al. (2018) found that for women of color, sexism and racism in the workplace were associated with poor work and mental health outcomes, including job-related burnout, turnover intentions, and psychological distress. However, self-esteem, person–organization fit, and perceived organizational support mediated these effects. Additionally, stronger womanist attitudes—which acknowledge the unique challenges faced by women of color in a sexist and racist society—weakened the association of workplace discrimination with psychological distress. These findings underscore the importance of considering multiple forms of workplace discrimination in clinical practice and research with women of color, along with efforts to challenge and reduce such discrimination.

方括号、省略号与 [sic]

引文必须精确。允许的改动都要标出。APA 7 §§8.30–8.31:为迁就你的句子而改大小写或句末标点,不必加注;用方括号标出你添加或改动的词;用省略号标出你从中间删去的词。MLA 与 Chicago 使用同样标记。CMOS 18 §12.7,经 Red Deer Polytechnic 重述,允许对现代出处中的明显排印错误做无声修正;保留旧拼写,并用 [sic] 标出真正的错误。

标出的改动(模板与一处已核对的删节)

方括号添加或改动一个词: "The[se] findings apply only to the second cohort."

省略号删去中间材料: "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality . . . Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

[sic] 标出你不改正的错误: 保留原拼写,然后加 [sic]。

引文三明治——以及误引陷阱

UNC 讲义是每本手册都默认的那条规则最清楚的课堂版:引文不能独自站着。给出语境、点名说话者、引用,然后说明这行在你的论证中做什么。Style Center 的四步是同一顺序:引入、引用或改写、标注、衔接。Franklin Roosevelt 的首次就职演说(1933 年 3 月 4 日)是 UNC 的示范句:

UNC Writing Center 三明治(Roosevelt)

语境:

When Franklin Roosevelt gave his inaugural speech on March 4, 1933, he addressed a nation weakened and demoralized by economic depression.

引文 + 出处:

Roosevelt declared, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (Roosevelt, Public Papers, 11).

分析:

With that message of hope and confidence, the new president set the stage for his next one-hundred days in office and helped restore the faith of the American people in their government.

孤立抛出的引文通不过这一检验。UNC 的 Hamlet 对照就是诊断:单独成句的引文并没有告诉读者它为何在此。用冒号引导、接上言说动词,或把词语折进你的语法——然后加以评论。

UNC:不要让引文自成一句

别扭:

Hamlet denies Rosencrantz’s claim that thwarted ambition caused his depression. “I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space” (Hamlet 2.2).

嵌入:

Hamlet denies Rosencrantz’s claim that thwarted ambition caused his depression: “I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space” (Hamlet 2.2).

另一种失败是引用准确却仍在说谎。UNC 的 John Adams 例子出自 Paul F. Boller, Jr. 与 John George,They Never Said It(Oxford University Press, 1989),应放在每句名言旁边。Adams 确实写了那句短句。下一句把它推翻:

UNC:一句真话仍可能是误引

人们重复的那一句:

This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.

它后面的那一句:

Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, ‘this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!!’ But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company—I mean hell.

二手出处与你自己的翻译

APA Style:若你在别人的论文里读到对一手出处的改写,"it is best to read and cite the primary source directly if possible; if not, use a secondary source citation." 在句子里点名原作,把你实际打开的出处放进文内标注("as cited in")。参考文献表只列那第二条出处。MLA 用 "qtd. in",Chicago 用 "quoted in" 处理同一情形。若你只读了 UNC 的节选,就不要假装自己拿过 1861 年的 Jacobs。

二手出处模板

APA 7 官方模式(Rabbitt 经 Lyon):

(Rabbitt, 1982, as cited in Lyon et al., 2014)

APA 7,原作年份未知:

Allport’s diary (as cited in Nicholson, 2003)

MLA 9:

Agar calls the link "languaculture" (qtd. in Later Writer 10).

APA 的翻译规则常让多语作者吃惊:"If you translate a passage from one language into another on your own in your paper, your translation is considered a paraphrase, not a direct quotation." 你仍要标注原作。若还需要原词,先引用原词,再给出你的译文。

APA Style,翻译

If you translate a passage from one language into another on your own in your paper, your translation is considered a paraphrase, not a direct quotation.

学科习惯,不是硬上限

手册里没有「引文必须低于论文的 10%」这条规则。APA Style 说教师、项目、编辑和出版者可以自定上限——去问将给论文打分的人。一致的是该领域的习惯:

通常的搭配,以及始终胜出的例外
领域默认仍要引用,当
科学与工程改写方法、结果与既有发现正在固定一条定义,或正在用作者原词争议一项结果
社会科学(APA、ASA)改写发现;引用一句关键理论句你在回应一条具体主张,或复现一道量表题
历史与法律(Chicago、Bluebook)引用一手文献;改写二手分析法令、意见或书信就是展品
文学与语言(MLA)引用一手文本;改写批评每一条细读主张都需要那一行

常见失败

  • 拼贴改写。 你把 "founders conceived" 改成 "founding fathers envisioned" 却保留 McDougall 的其余形状,或重排 Chase 的短语再加一条出处。MLA 9 与 UW–Madison 都称之为不可接受。重写句子,或直接引用它。
  • 未标注的改写。 新词并不转让所有权。Chicago 18 §13.1 与 APA §8.1 都要求致谢。
  • 引文堆砌。 一段几乎全是别人的句子,就没有论证。砍到你将讨论的那个分句。
  • 缺少定位。 引文后只写 "(King, 1963)",在存在页码或段号时,对 APA 是不完整的。
  • 伪造流畅。 不要在没有方括号的情况下修正引号内的语法。不要无声删掉限定词("suggests" → "proves")。
  • 用错块引规则。 APA 的四十词不是 MLA 的四行,也不是 Chicago 的约一百词指南。
  • 把二手当成一手。 若你没有打开过 Agar,就不要单独引用 Agar。
  • 句子为真,语境为假。 Adams 的短句是真的,一旦切掉下一句仍是误引。读过你喜欢的那个分句之后的部分。
  • 给共享语言加过多引号。 不要给 nurse manager 或 democracy 加引号。

Chicago 为何两种形式都要标注

Widener University 的 CMOS 18 导论引用手册的目的陈述,作为本页把改写与直接引用当作同一个文献问题的理由:

Chicago Manual of Style 18 §13.1(Widener 转载)

Ethics, copyright laws, and courtesy to readers require authors to identify the sources of direct quotations or paraphrases and of any facts or opinions not generally known or easily checked.

常见问题

改写必须标注出处吗?
必须。APA 7 §§8.23–8.24、MLA 9 §4.8 与 Chicago 18 §13.1 都要求为重述的想法标注出处。你去掉的是引号,不是致谢。
改写比直接引用更好吗?
作为默认选择,是的。APA Style 说已发表作者大多数时候都在改写,MLA 9 §4.9 说引文只有在有选择地使用时才有效。引用定义、新造术语、诗行,或你即将反驳的那一句。
改写与概述有何差别?
改写以大致相同的细节程度、用新词和新的句子形状重述特定段落。概述把较长段落压缩成主旨。MLA Style Center 用改写强调事实,用概述强调主旨。两者都仍需标注出处。
怎样知道我的改写太接近原文?
对照 MLA 的 McDougall 一对和 UW–Madison 的 Chase 三例。若读者能把你的句子叠在原文上,看到同样的分句按同样顺序排列,你仍在无标记地引用。合上书,凭记忆重写,再核对。
我复用的每个技术术语都要加引号吗?
不必。UW–Madison 的共享语言清单就是规则:惯用名称(nurse manager、chronic low-back pain)、首选的无偏见用语,以及某领域的普通技术词汇保持不加标记。引用 Agar 的 "languaculture" 这类新造词。
APA 何时要求页码?
每条直接引用都要(页码、段号、标题或时间戳)。改写时定位信息可选,但当你指向长作中的某一段时建议加上——Webster-Stratton 样例因此包含 "pp. 152–153"。针对某一段的 Chicago 注释应带该段的页码。
APA、MLA 与 Chicago 的块引有何差别?
APA 对 40 词及以上使用块引。MLA 对超过四行的散文(以及需要按行展示的诗)使用块引。Chicago 一般对约 100 词、两段及以上或特殊格式文本使用块引。三者都缩进并去掉引号。缩进与出处位置见块引指南。
我可以引用只在另一本书里见到的出处吗?
优先读原作。若拿不到,APA 用 "as cited in"(官方 Rabbitt / Lyon 一对),MLA 用 "qtd. in",Chicago 用 "quoted in"。参考文献或书目条目对应你手里的那条出处。
我自己的翻译在 APA 中算直接引用吗?
不算。APA Style 把你的翻译当作改写。标注原作。若原词很重要,先引用原词,再给出译文。
一篇论文里引文可以占多少?
没有主要手册设定百分比。APA Style 把上限留给教师和编辑。UNC 的经验法则更稳妥:尽可能少引词,让你自己的句子承担论文。文学论文会比实验报告引用更多;那是学科习惯,不是漏洞。

标注你引用或改写的出处

本页的选择是句子。参考文献仍须匹配教师指定的体例。先生成条目,再回去补上你实际使用的页码或段号。

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