Rules for writers, Tenth edition - Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers 2021

Use quotation marks around borrowed language
Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
Writing Papers in APA Style

To indicate that you are using a source’s exact phrases or sentences, you must enclose them in quotation marks unless they have been set off from the text by indenting (see 61b). To omit the quotation marks is to claim — falsely — that the language is your own, as in the following example. Such an omission is plagiarism even if you have cited the source.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

Student-centered learning, or student centeredness, is a model which puts the student in the center of the learning process.

— Z. Çubukçu, “Teachers’ Evaluation of Student-Centered Learning Environments” (2012), p. 50

PLAGIARISM

According to Professor Zuhal Çubukçu (2012), student-centered learning . . . is a model which puts the student in the center of the learning process (p. 50).

BORROWED LANGUAGE IN QUOTATION MARKS

According to Professor Zuhal Çubukçu (2012), “student-centered learning . . . is a model which puts the student in the center of the learning process” (p. 50).

NOTE: Quotation marks are not used when quoted sentences are set off from the text by indenting (see 61b).