Spring 2005
Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
Plagiarism Workshop

Using the Turabian Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

In the text of your paper, a footnote signifying that you did not write a certain sentence looks like this:

At the bottom of your paper, the footnote telling who wrote that sentence looks like this:

 

....Enlisting at 14, Williams fought for the North in the Civil War. In 1874, he became the first black to graduate from the Newton Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Mass. A Baptist minister in Boston and Cincinnati, he later became a lawyer and was the first African American elected to the Ohio legislature.

In 1882 Williams published History of the Negro Race in America, 1619–1880. "This made him the first major historian of African-American ancestry." 13 At the end of his administration, President Chester A. Arthur appointed Williams minister to Haiti. But the new president, Grover Cleveland cancelled the assignment. Williams attended an antislavery conference in Brussels in 1885, prompting the Belgian government to send him to the Congo, where he criticized Belgian atrocities.....

 

....Enlisting at 14, Williams fought for the North in the Civil War. In 1874, he became the first black to graduate from the Newton Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Mass. A Baptist minister in Boston and Cincinnati, he later became a lawyer and was the first African American elected to the Ohio legislature.

In 1882 Williams published History of the Negro Race in America, 1619–1880. According to John Franklin Hope, "this made him the first major historian of African-American ancestry." 13 At the end of his administration, President Chester A. Arthur appointed Williams minister to Haiti. But the new president, Grover Cleveland cancelled the assignment. Williams attended an antislavery conference in Brussels in 1885, prompting the Belgian government to send him to the Congo, where he criticized Belgian atrocities.....

THIS:



BECOMES THIS, WHEN PARAPHRASED:

 

PARAPHRASING PRACTICE!