Which of the following types of information does not need to be cited in academic writing? Question options: A word-for-word quo
tation from Newsweek magazine on the decline of honeybee populations. A photograph of Mount Kilimanjaro that you found on the National Geographic website. A list of important things you think students can do to survive college. A paragraph you wrote last year summarizing an article on Global Warming you read online.
The correct answer is the third: A list of important things you think students can do to survive college. This is a personal opinion, so there may be no need to cite sources.
On the other hand, word-for-word quotations must be cited. Photographs taken from other sources must also be cited. A summary paragraph, even paraphrased, must still be cited since its ideas are from a different source.
The Russian Revolution took place in 1917 when the peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union.
