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If you don't keep track of your citations as you write, you will forget where you found the information. It will only get worse as you get further along and are using more and more citations (often...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T11:24:46Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Laurel
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2019-12-08T11:24:46Z (about 5 years ago)
If you don't keep track of your citations as you write, you will forget where you found the information. It will only get worse as you get further along and are using more and more citations (often from sources with similar names and covering a lot of the same material), with stricter citation requirements. Going back to figure out what goes with what is tedious and error prone. Therefore my suggestion is to do quick and dirty "citations". Your style guide requires citations in a certain format, but your early drafts can use whatever format you find fastest. In the past I've just dumped the information in parentheses or used [comments](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/insert-or-delete-a-comment-8d3f868a-867e-4df2-8c68-bf96671641e2). For anything online what I put down is the URL. For paper resources it's the title and page number. You can copy and paste if you're using the same resource multiple times in a paper. When you're ready, it should be easy to edit your paper to replace what you have with real in-text citations and an entry in the works cited.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-03-19T01:17:16Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 3