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 Compromise of 1850 included the Fugitive Slave Act, which became largely disputed within the northern free states. The Fugitive Slave Act stipulated that citizens of free states were required to return slaves found in the North. After the Act was passed many African Americans in the North fled to Canada.
The Elementary Education Act of 1870 was the first of a number of acts of parliament passed between 1870 and 1893 to create compulsory education in England and Wales for children aged between five and 13. It was known as The Forster Act after its sponsor William Forster.
