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Communication Basics

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"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with  communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words." 

    -- Roy T. Bennett in The Light of the Heartundefined

Class Quotation Resources

REFERENCE LIST CITATION TIP - WORK IN A COLLECTION:  

Bartlett's is a comprehensive web archive that is based on the print edition of Bartlett's book.  

In this situation, you have both an "author" (the person quoted) and an editor or composer because Bartlett is responsible for collecting the quotations. In addition, yet another editor stepped in after Bartlett to revise and expand the original work.

This Reference list citation would attribute the author/person quoted as well as the original and subsequent editors, so the Ref list citation would look something like this:

Alcott, L.M. (1899). J. Bartlett, comp. Familiar quotations

     (10th ed.). Rev. and enl.by N.H. Dole. Boston: Little,

     Brown, 1919. Bartleby.com, 2000. https://www.bartleby.com

     /lit-hub/familiar-quotations/

IN-TEXT / IN SPEECH CITATION TIP:

Regardless of how complicated the Reference list citation is for this particular quote, your goal is to direct your audience back to the source as listed on the References page. 

In this example, the quote was made by Louisa May Alcott, and she is listed as the primary source on the Reference list. 

A leading phrase within an outline / speech would direct the audience similarly: 

Louisa May Alcott (1899) once said, "......"  OR According to Louisa May Alcott (1899)...

REFERENCE LIST CITATION TIP - PAGE ON A WEBSITE: 

Reference list citations for the following resources would use APA Page on a Website citation style:

For example, a speech utilizing a quote from James Earl Jones might look like this based on the source material:

Jones, J.E. (n.d.). James Earl Jones quotes. Brainyquote.com.

      https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/

     james_earl_jones_125785

NOTE:  n.d. is used in this circumstance because no date for when the quote was made is provided.

The in-text / in-text or in-speech citation would cross- reference to Jones because that is how the source is listed on the Reference page.

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Citing Musical Works

Learn how to cite a single song or track reference at the APA Style Blog