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。本页遵循现行 APA Style quotations 与 paraphrases 页面(Publication Manual, 7th ed., §§8.23–8.35)、MLA Handbook Plus 9th edition §§4.5–4.11 章、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设置块引用格式;定位信息见改写时需要页码吗?。
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何时改写、何时直接引用:快速答案
APA Style 告诉学生作者:大多数时候改写,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:只引特别贴切的部分,每条引文都要短,并说明它为何在此。Chicago 18 §13.1 要求为直接引用和改写标注出处。若能用自己的句法说出那个想法,就改写。若改词会改主张,就直接引用。若只需长段落的大意,就概述。
判断模板(引用你实际读过的版本)
应当直接引用的情况:
- 措辞本身就是证据(法规、定义、造词、诗行)。
- 你要分析用词、语气或修辞。
- 一句简短而著名的话一经改写就会失去力量。
应当改写的情况:
- 你需要的是发现、方法或论点,而不是作者的措辞。
- 你能重建句子,使词语和句法都是你的。
- 你能比原句更清楚地说明这一点。
应当概述的情况:
- 你需要长段落的主旨,而不是其支撑细节。
- 你正在把若干来源综合成一个主张。
一律:
改写和直接引用都要标注出处。新词语不会转移想法的所有权。
American Psychological Association 在现行 quotations 页面(最后更新于 2022 年 7 月;Publication Manual §§8.25–8.35)上陈述这一偏好。本页遵循的两句是:
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).
Chicago 把同一选择当作一个著录问题。Widener University 的 CMOS 18 导论引用 §13.1,“The Purpose of Source Citations”:
Chicago Manual of Style 18 §13.1 (Widener reprint)
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.
直接引用、改写和概述实际上是什么
直接引用逐字复制词语并做标记。APA Style: "A direct quotation reproduces words verbatim from another work or from your own previously published work." 改写用新词语和新句子结构重述想法。APA Style: "A paraphrase restates another’s idea (or your own previously published idea) in your own words." MLA 9 §4.5 补充了这次改写为何重要:
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.
保留原句法、只换几个同义词,并不是改写。那是拼贴改写,写作中心即使附了出处也把它当作剽窃。概述更短:保留主张,丢掉支撑细节。MLA Style Center lesson on integrating quotations(为第 8 版撰写;第 9 版仍是同样的三项工作)这样划分:
MLA Style Center,四步课(第 8 版说明)
直接引用:
Used to emphasize distinctive opinion, tone, style; to analyze rhetorical and literary devices; to provide a basis for disagreement
改写:
Used to emphasize facts rather than opinion, tone, or style
概述:
Used to emphasize main ideas rather than supporting details of a source or to provide accepted background information
三者都仍需出处。Style Center 整合其中任何一种的四步是:引入、引用或改写或概述、标注出处、衔接。UNC 的三明治是同一顺序的课堂说法。
| 检验 | 直接引用 | 改写 | 概述 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 措辞 | 来源中的原词 | 你的词,不是同义词覆盖 | 你的词,经压缩 |
| 句子形状 | 保留,除非有标记的删节或 [clarifications] | 重建,使句法属于你 | 重建并缩短 |
| 标记 | 引号,或无引号的块引 | 无引号 | 无引号 |
| 出处 | 必需,带页码、段落、行号或时间戳 | 必需;指向某段时加上定位信息 | 必需 |
| 在论文中的工作 | 你将讨论的证据 | 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重要、说法特别有力,或你要聚焦来源中的语言时引用。不要用引用代替理解。现行 UW–Madison handbook(从旧路径 /handbook/quotingsources/ 迁来)补充了与手册一致的四条研究论文理由:
UW–Madison,“Should I paraphrase or quote?”
to show that an authority supports your point
to present a position or argument to critique or comment on
to include especially moving or historically significant language
to present a particularly well-stated passage whose meaning would be lost or changed if paraphrased or summarized
措辞本身就是证据
法律文本、官方定义和造词必须照抄。把 First Amendment 改写成 "Congress should not pick a national church",会丢掉法院实际阅读的条款。Amendment I 的 National Archives transcription 才是应引用的来源:
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 文中引用:
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 的造词。若你借用这个词,词要加引号,页码要写进出处:
MLA Handbook 9 §4.11 (Agar)
来源中的段落:
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,改写会把它压扁
对一句名言的改写可以准确,却仍是错误选择。Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963 年 4 月 16 日的 Letter from Birmingham Jail,由 University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center 转录,才是学生真正需要的那一句。Stanford King Institute 页面是摘要,不是信本身;引用你读过的版本——那份 Penn 文本,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(准确但没有锋芒):
King 认为,一个城市的不公会危及其他地方的公正,因为各个共同体彼此相连。
更好地使用这句引文:
King 通过消弭城市之间的距离来拒绝 "outside agitator" 的指控:"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
John F. Kennedy 1961 年 1 月 20 日的 inaugural address,由 American Presidency Project 转录,属于同一类情况。交错配列本身就是证据:
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
改写(丢掉了转折):
Kennedy 请美国人思考为国家服务,而不是个人利益 (Kennedy, 1961)。
你在分析语言
在文学分析中,页面上的词就是数据。先引用那一行,再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 印的是 "word",而不是谚语里的 "name":
MLA 行内诗行(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,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 现行 paraphrases 页面(2022 年 7 月)说得很直白:已发表的作者大多数时候都在改写。MLA 9 §4.6 列出改写要做的工作:压缩长段落、保持对自己论证的控制,并表明你了解这场对话。UW–Madison 补充了理工与社会科学的习惯:概述方法与发现;只引用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 改写范例
Style Center 自己的叙述性改写就是应照抄的模式:点名来源、重述想法,然后因为该段位于长书之中而加上定位信息。
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).
官方操作范例:MLA 9 §4.7
手册自己的不可接受/可接受对照,才是要记住的那一对。来源是 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,因为那会留下 McDougall 的句子:
MLA Handbook 9 §4.7 (McDougall)
来源中的段落:
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(同一骨架):
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.
写进正文,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。造词加引号;保留该领域的普通词汇。
如何写改写:先改结构
UW–Madison 的方法与常见写作中心顺序是同一套程序。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为改写。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:
- 反复阅读该段,直到不看也能解释。
- 合上来源。像对同学讲述那样写出这个想法。
- 先改结构(从不同位置起笔,拆分或合并句子),再改词语。
- 再打开来源。若除了一个独特术语之外仍有多处重合,就重写。
- 标注出处。若你保留了一句醒目的话,就在改写内部给那句话加引号。
UW–Madison: Ross, Love and Toil, p. 9
来源中的段落:
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.
UW 的 signal / assertion / connection:
Ross (1993), in her study of poor and working-class mothers in London from 1870-1918 [signal], makes it clear that economic status to a large extent determined the meaning of motherhood [assertion]. Among this population [connection], “To mother was to work for and organize household subsistence” (p. 9).
UW 的中间结构改写草稿引用 "Ross, 1995"——那一页上的笔误。书是 1993 年,UW 完成的改写和信号句都用 1993。引用你打开的书名页上的年份。
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。APA Style 的 own-translations post(2022 年 11 月 21 日)给同一种失败命名:"APA Style does not promote patchwriting, which is considered a form of plagiarism, when a few words in a passage have been changed but content is largely the same." 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。来源是 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 来源句
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,并且不点名来源。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.
带出处的拼贴仍是剽窃
第二份改写确实点名了 Chase。那还不够。UW 的判定:划线短语仍是 Chase 的语言,只是被重排,且没有引号。
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工作(跨职业的专家与非专家),重建句子,标注 Chase,并把唯一借用的短语放进引号:
UW–Madison:正当的改写
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 的最后一步是学生常矫枉过正的地方。nurse manager、clinical nurse specialist、resource nurse 和 staff nurses 出现在正当改写中,没有引号。它们是该领域的惯用称呼,不是 Chase 的独特措辞。引用 Agar 的 "languaculture" 这类造词。不要引用学科的普通词汇。
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
各体例如何格式化直接引用
决定引用是共享的。长度检验不是。APA 数词。MLA 数页面上的行。Chicago 数词和段。不要把 APA 的 40 词块引规则套到 MLA 论文上。缩进、行距和句号后出处的规则见如何设置块引用格式。
Chicago Manual of Style 18 §12.10(现行 CMOS Q&A)
In deciding whether to run in or set off a quotation, length is usually the deciding factor. In general, a short quotation, especially one that is not a full sentence, should be run in. A hundred words or more can generally be set off as a block quotation.
| 体例 | 把引文留在句中 | 设为块引 | 定位信息 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APA 7 §§8.25–8.27 | 少于 40 词,加引号 | 40 词或以上:缩进 0.5 in,无引号,双倍行距 | 同一句中的页码、段落或其他位置 |
| MLA 9 (Style Center / ch. 6) | 不超过四行的散文;带斜线的一至三行诗 | 超过四行的散文,或需要按行展示的诗:缩进 0.5 in,无引号 | 句后的页码、行号、act.scene.line 或时间戳 |
| CMOS 18 §§12.9–12.10 | 带引号的短行内引用 | 约 100 词或以上、两段或以上,或特殊格式文本(列表、书信、两行以上的诗) | 带页码或其他定位信息的注释或 author-date 出处 |
短直接引用
APA Style: "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." 除非来源本身带省略号,不要在开头或结尾加省略号。"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 短直接引用(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).
叙述模板:
Name (2020) argues that "quoted words" (p. 12).
括号模板:
The study reports that "quoted words" (Name, 2020, p. 12).
块引用
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 也一样。先引入块引,再用下一句说明这些行为何重要。若你只需两个从句,就砍掉块引,只引那些从句。APA 发布了两个官方块引:一个括号式(Alderson-Day),一个叙述式(Flores)。
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)
APA 7 官方叙述块引 (Flores et al.)
Flores et al. (2018) described how they addressed potential researcher bias when working with an intersectional community of transgender people of color:
Everyone on the research team belonged to a stigmatized group but also held privileged identities. Throughout the research process, we attended to the ways in which our privileged and oppressed identities may have influenced the research process, findings, and presentation of results. (p. 311)
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 要求文中出处指向 Works Cited 条目,对有页码的书还要指向页码。Chicago 18 §13.1 把出处当作直接引用和改写的伦理要求;§13.20 接着要求针对特定段落的注释只携带该段的页码。现行 CMOS Documentation Q&A 更直白:对特定段落的改写应带页码,而且可能比引文的页码更重要,因为措辞已不可搜索。旧课堂捷径“引文要页码,改写不要”在 Chicago 中是错的,在 APA 和 MLA 中也不完整。定位信息表见改写时需要页码吗?。
CMOS Q&A (18th edition):改写上的页码
Yes. In fact, it can be more important to cite page numbers when you paraphrase or summarize than when you quote, especially if the source of the info is longer than a few pages. Words reproduced in a verbatim quotation will almost always be easier to locate in the original than words and ideas approximated by paraphrase or summary.
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 自己的多句改写是 Velez and colleagues 关于职场歧视的段落。第一次提及的一处出处覆盖该段其余部分。当改写混合来源时,APA 的下一段官方段落会重复每一处出处:
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.
APA Style Center 混合来源改写 (Elwood / Figley / Robinson-Keilig)
Play therapists can experience many symptoms of impaired wellness, including emotional exhaustion or reduced ability to empathize with others (Elwood et al., 2011; Figley, 2002), disruption in personal relationships (Elwood et al., 2011; Robinson-Keilig, 2014), decreased satisfaction with work (Elwood et al., 2011), avoidance of particular situations (Figley, 2002; O’Halloran & Linton, 2000), and feelings or thoughts of helplessness (Elwood et al., 2011; Figley, 2002; O’Halloran & Linton, 2000).
方括号、省略号与 [sic]
引文必须精确。允许的编辑都要做标记。APA 7 §§8.30–8.31:为适应你的句子而改大小写或句末标点,无需加注;用方括号标出你添加或改动的词;用省略号标出从中间删去的词。MLA 和 Chicago 使用同样的标记。CMOS 18 §12.7 允许对现代来源中明显的排印错误做无声修正;保留旧拼写,并用 [sic] 标出真正的错误。
带标记的改动(模板与一处已核验的删节)
方括号添加或改动一个词: "The[se] findings apply only to the second cohort."
省略号从中间删去材料: "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:引文不能单独坐着。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。Franklin Roosevelt 的首次就职演说(1933 年 3 月 4 日)是 UNC 的操作行:
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.
丢下的引文通不过这项检验。UNC 的 Hamlet 对照就是诊断:单独成句的引文并不告诉读者它为何在此。用冒号引入、接上说话动词,或把词语折进你的语法——然后再评论。
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).
已嵌入:
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撒谎。UNC 的 John Adams 例子来自 Paul F. Boller, Jr. 与 John George, They Never Said It (Oxford University Press, 1989),应放在每一句名言旁边。Adams 确实写了那句短句。下一句把它翻转过来:
UNC:一句真话仍可能是误引
人们重复的那一行:
This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.
它后面的句子:
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.
二手来源与你自己的翻译
APA Style 现行 secondary sources 页面(§8.6):若你在别人的论文中读到对一手来源的改写,能找到原件就找;找不到就用二手来源出处。在句子中点名原件,把你实际打开的来源放进出处("as cited in")。参考文献表只放那第二个来源。MLA 对同一情况使用 "qtd. in",Chicago 使用 "quoted in"。若你只读了 UNC 的摘录,就不要假装手里拿着 1861 年的 Jacobs。出处机制见如何引用二手来源。
二手来源模板
APA 7 官方模式 (Rabbitt via Lyon):
(Rabbitt, 1982, as cited in Lyon et al., 2014)
APA 7,原件年份未知:
Allport’s diary (as cited in Nicholson, 2003)
MLA 9:
Agar calls the link "languaculture" (qtd. in Later Writer 10).
APA 的 own-translations post(A. Adams,2022 年 11 月 21 日)是多语言作者常漏掉的规则:你的翻译是改写,不是直接引用。你仍要引用原作。若还需要原词,先引用它们,再给出你的翻译。官方的法英对照是 Schröder and colleagues 关于自闭症患者睡眠问题的句子:
APA Style,自己的翻译 (Schröder et al., 2022)
If you translate a passage from one language into another language on your own in your paper, your translation is considered a paraphrase, not a direct quotation.
原文法文:
“Ainsi, les problèmes de sommeil retentissent sur le fonctionnement diurne des patients en perturbant leurs capacités d’apprentissage et de régulation émotionnelle” (Schröder et al., 2022, p. 301).
官方改写式翻译:
Schröder et al. (2022) noted that sleep problems affect autistic patients’ daytime functioning by disrupting their learning and emotional regulation abilities (p. 301).
学科习惯,不是硬上限
没有手册规定“引文必须低于论文的 10%”。APA Style 说教师、项目、编辑和出版社可以自设限度——去问将给论文打分的人。UNC 的经验法则更稳妥:"As few words as possible." 真正一致的是该领域的习惯:
| 领域 | 默认 | 仍要引用的情况 |
|---|---|---|
| 科学与工程 | 改写方法、结果和先前发现 | 正在固定一项定义,或用作者原词争议一项结果 |
| 社会科学 (APA, ASA) | 改写发现;引用关键理论句 | 你在回应一项具体主张,或复现一道量表题 |
| 历史与法律 (Chicago, Bluebook) | 引用原始文献;改写二手分析 | 法规、意见或信件就是证物 |
| 文学与语言 (MLA) | 引用原作;改写批评 | 每一项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",却留下 McDougall 其余的形状,或重排了 Chase 的短语并加上出处。MLA 9、APA Style 和 UW–Madison 都称之为不可接受。重写句子,或引用它。
- 未标注的改写。 新词语不会转移所有权。Chicago 18 §13.1 和 APA §8.1 都要求致谢。
- 引文倾倒。 一段几乎全是别人句子的文字没有论证。切到你将讨论的从句。
- 缺少定位信息。 直接引用后的 "(King, 1963)" 在存在页码或段落时,对 APA 不完整。Chicago 也希望特定段落的改写带页码。
- 发明的流畅。 不要在没有方括号的情况下修正引号内的语法。不要无声地删掉保留("suggests" → "proves")。
- 用错块引规则。 APA 的四十个词不是 MLA 的四行,也不是 Chicago 的百词指南。
- 把二手来源打扮成一手。 若你没有打开 Agar,就不要单独引用 Agar。
- 真话,假语境。 Adams 的短句是真的,一旦下一句被砍掉,它仍是误引。读过你喜欢的那个从句。
- 过度引用共享语言。 不要给 nurse manager 或 democracy 加引号。
- 失效的手册 URL。 UW–Madison 的 quoting 页面现在位于
/handbook/academicwriting/quotingsources/。收藏现行路径,而不是旧转载。
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 和 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,是的。APA Style 说已发表的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、造词、诗行,或你即将反驳的那一句。
- 改写和概述有什么区别?
- 改写以大致相同的细节层次、用新词语和新句子形状重述特定段落。概述把较长段落压缩到其主要主张。MLA Style Center 用改写强调事实,用概述强调主旨。两者都仍需出处。
- 怎样知道我的改写太近?
- 把它与 MLA 的 McDougall 对照和 UW–Madison 的 Chase 三例比较。若读者能把你的句子叠在原文上,看到相同从句按相同顺序排列,你仍在无标记地引用。合上书,凭记忆重写,然后再核对。
- 我复用的每个术语都必须加引号吗?
- 不必。UW–Madison 的共享语言清单就是规则:惯用称呼(nurse manager、chronic low-back pain)、首选无偏见语言,以及某领域的普通专业词汇保持不加标记。引用 Agar 的 "languaculture" 这类造词。
- APA 何时要求页码?
- 每一条直接引用(页码、段落号、标题或时间戳)。对改写,当你指向长著作中的一段时,定位信息可选但建议加上——Webster-Stratton 样例因此包含 "pp. 152–153"。针对特定段落的 Chicago 注释应携带该段页码,CMOS Q&A 说改写可能比引文更需要页码。
- APA、MLA 和 Chicago 的块引有何不同?
- APA 把 40 词或以上设为块引。MLA 把超过四行的散文(以及需要按行展示的诗)设为块引。Chicago 一般把约 100 词、两段或以上,或特殊格式文本设为块引——现行 CMOS Q&A 引用 §12.10 的百词检验。三者都缩进并去掉引号。缩进和出处位置见块引指南。
- 我可以引用只在另一本书里见过的来源吗?
- 优先找原件。若得不到,APA 使用 "as cited in"(官方 Rabbitt / Lyon 对照),MLA 使用 "qtd. in",Chicago 使用 "quoted in"。参考文献表或书目条目对应你手里的来源。
- 在 APA 中,我自己的翻译算直接引用吗?
- 不算。APA Style 把你的翻译当作改写。像官方 Schröder et al. (2022, p. 301) 对照那样引用原作。若原词重要,先引用那些词,再给出翻译。
- 一篇论文可以有多少直接引用?
- 没有主要手册设定百分比。APA Style 把限度留给教师和编辑。UNC 的经验法则更稳妥:尽可能少引用词语,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。