Question

Do I need to add quotations to this if it's directly stated in the text?
According to the informational text, "New School Year, Old Story: Education Pays," workers with a bachelors degree earn about $415 more a week than workers whose highest education is a high school diploma.

Answer 1

@camerondoherty @CrazyCountryGirl

Answer 2

I think any text that isn't YOURS needs to be in quotations

Answer 3

so they second set of quotation marks would start right after the end of the first set?

Answer 4

Um I am not sure

Answer 5

I've been looking at other essays and they don't put quotes around the cited words when they said according to before the cited words..... do you think that's acceptable?

Answer 6

Hm I am pretty sure when you want to state text from a site, you have to out the statement in quotations and then put in parenthesis the source you got it from

Answer 7

I agree.

Answer 8

ok so it should look like this?

According to the informational text, ("New School Year, Old Story: Education Pays,") workers with a bachelors degree earn about $415 more a week than workers whose highest education is a high school diploma.

Answer 9

my teacher is unbelievably strict about punctuation so i just want to make sure i'm doing this 100% corect

Answer 10

*correct...

Answer 11

No it should look like "New School Year, Old Story: Education Pays" (source)

Answer 12

I got it out of my collegeboard workbook, so what would be the source?

Answer 13

Hm I think in that case you should put the author who wrote that text

Answer 14

it doesn't give an authors name, just bls.gov/CPS

Answer 15

Then you should write (bls)

Answer 16

I think

Answer 17

XD

maybe i should just word this differently..

Answer 18

Wait a sec..

Answer 19

Are you putting text directly from the text into your essay or are you just listing one of your sources?

Answer 20

putting text directly from the text into my essay. i also need a work cited page at the very end of the essay...

Answer 21

Ok so it should look like: "New School Year, Old Story: Education Pays," (bls)

Answer 22

According to the informational text, "New School Year, Old Story: Education Pays," (bls) Workers with a bachelors degree earn about $415 more a week than workers whose highest education is a high school diploma."

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Answer 23

Does workers need to be capitalized?

Answer 24

hold on a sec

Answer 25

ok c:

Answer 26

The quotations go around the text in the article

Answer 27

but you also have to put quotes around an articles name too.. so both?

Answer 28

I went to the url you showed. Where is this text you wanna put into the essay?

Answer 29

second paragraph where it says for example

Answer 30

what date

Answer 31

oct 7?

Answer 32

http://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2012/fall/oochart.pdf

Answer 33

Ahhh I see

Answer 34

What you SHOULD do

Answer 35

Is italicize the TITLE of the article and then put text from the article in quotations

Answer 36

do you think my teacher will be okay with that? She's really picky and if something it's perfect she throws a fit -_-

Answer 37

Just italicize the article name

Answer 38

I'll show an example. Pretend the article is ITALICIZED

Answer 39

should bls also be italicized?

Answer 40

According to the informational text, New School Year, Old Story: Education Pays (bls), Workers with a bachelors degree earn about $415 more a week than workers whose highest education is a high school diploma."

Answer 41

No don't italicize the source

Answer 42

okay thanks c: lets hope there isn't some huge dilemma!

Answer 43

No prob :)