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[Music] Hello everyone. In this video today, we're going to talk about citation. So first, let's look at what citation is. As you can see in this slide, citation is a formal and academic reference to a source that you're going to use in your own study, and that increases the level of your study, the intellectuality, and honesty in your study.
And there are sometimes some reasons for using citation. Why do we need citation in our work? First, it increases the value of your work, and it gives credit to the writer of the original source that you're going to use in your own study. Plus, we are students, and we don't know everything. As humans, we don't know everything, so we need other people and other people's studies to be used in our own study. The other issue is sometimes we need some people to agree or disagree with whatever we are stating in our report, so we use citation for that reason as well. It increases, expands the breadth and depth of your writing. And one of the most important things is it helps us avoid plagiarism. You know, plagiarism is a kind of stealing other people's work, and you don't need to do that; you have to use a legal way to use other external sources.
Now we are going to look at another issue, which is what should we cite in our work, what shouldn't we cite? Here again, we have the issue is striking phrases, sentences, or passages relevant to your work. What we mean is you should cite something that you personally cannot write, so it should have a value. Then the idea that you're going to cite is going to be of great importance, and of course, we should avoid general knowledge in our citation because general knowledge is known by everybody; we can't, we don't need to cite it; we can write it directly. And the other issue is we should not cite irrelevant or trivial information. So these are the information that you should keep in your mind about what and what not to cite in your own work.
We are going to work—I'm sorry—we're going to work on how to cite. There are some different systems for citing, and we are going to know that primarily you should find a correct piece of information that you feel it is necessary to be added to your own study. So you find the external source firstly, and then you have to use the correct style and techniques for citing. There are different techniques that I will be explaining in the next videos. So the technique of citation should be correctly used; it's not going that way. So I need the highlight—yeah, done. Then we have to—you know, just taking the information, putting it in your work is not enough. What we need to do is, after we cite a piece of information from an external source, we have to add some kind of analysis, explanation, comments, or justification about it. So you write your own comments after you add the citation into your study. And of course, after finishing citation, you have to read the part completely in order to see that it is integrated well to your own work; there is no grammar mistake, there is no content-based mistake, and you make sure that that piece of citation is okay with you.
And what you should avoid is patchwork; that is, you cannot take an external source and put it in your essay—in—I'm sorry—in your report part by part, like one from another person, the other person—you cannot put—you cannot make a pile of different sources. You have to write your own report, and you have to support your own report with other external sources. Be very much careful about this issue. Then we know that there are different citation styles, and when you are writing for different places, like for a conference, for any report, or whatever, they give you the style that you should be using, and you usually write your report by the style of that citation that has been informed to you. So here in this semester, for in 202, we're going to use APA style, sixth edition, so that is a must-to-be-used, a must way of citation to be used in this course. So until here, we talked about the logic of citation, why we do it, how we do it. Then we're going to talk—in the next video, we're going to talk about how we're going to apply the techniques for citation. Thank you for watching this video. [Music]