Help with APA style?

Question

I need to quote a paper that cites another article.

This is the quote from the paper I want to use:

three main attributes of discovery learning as 1) exploring and problem solving to create, integrate, and

generalize knowledge, 2) student driven, interest-based activities in which the student determines the sequence and

frequency, and 3) activities to encourage integration of new knowledge into the learner’s existing knowledge base.

The person who is writing the paper attained their information from a specific source, so how do I use the quote. I would assume I would need to cite both the original source and the quoted source. I cannot use the original source because I don't have access to it to read what it says exactly.

Help, please.

Answer 1

You are trying to quote a definition. Why don't you just look up the definition from another source you CAN quote properly.

Also, if you quote from someone who is citing someone else, then the primary information is located somewhere in the book you ARE using, meaning both sets of information are in the same book, otherwise your source did not quote HIS  information properly, which means you cannot use the quote anyway.

Also you don't have to quote both sources. You are only quoting what one person said, so you should provide one source.

Answer 2

check this link:

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/56...

it has good info.

Answer 3

oo sounds fun, im exagerating

Answer 4

Stand by, I am checking the Fifth Edition of Pub Manual of APA.

Paganmom, I don't think that you can use this quote. I have looked through my wife's Fifth Ed, and I do not see a format for this anywhere. The Psychologists are tough, and if you cannot quote from the original paper, it SEEMS as though you can't use it.

Do you have an APA Pub Manual?

Chapter 3-34 shows to block off quotes of more than 40 words, without quotation marks.

I don't see anywhere quotes within quotes. I will check with my wife in the morning as she is sleeping now. She will be working on her doctoral dissertation and can probably tell me.

I will abridge this if I get a better answer for you.  However, if you are going to be writing to APA standards, you really need to get a handbook. You can order one at www.apa.org/books/ or at 800-374-2721.

In what type of material did you find this quote? Book, unpublished paper, published paper, dissertation, etc.?

Regards,

Dan

ADDED

My wife says to quote the reference exactly as it is in the source that you have, and to include whatever reference that the author used as a part of the quote.

Answer 5

You quote the author of the paper, which then cites the information you want to use. You do not need to cite the author's original source, although that information should be detailed by the author at the end of his paper.

If I write a paper and quote a poem in it for discussion, you can quote me. You don't have to quote me AND the author of the poem, unless you use the poem independently without respect to anything in my paper.

Answer 6

Citationmachine.net

I can't do a paper without it =]

Answer 7

That is difficult because to be true to apa format you have to cite both sources.