“[R]eligious studies is interdisciplinary, so there are multiple modes of investigation, including literary, historical, cultural, sociological, and anthropological. These approaches tend to contextualize religious phenomena, such as beliefs and rituals”
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Take Effective Notes:
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Cite properly:
Use quotation marks when directly stating another person’s work.
When to cite?
When using a direct quote
Paraphrasing an idea from a text
Summarizing a text
Using facts, information, and data, anything that is not common knowledge
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Cite while you write -- do not leave your citations until the last minute.
Philosophy and Religion courses at Lawrenceville use MLA Citation Style.
In MLA, you will need to create two citations for each source:
Only cite the information that is available to you. If you cannot identify a piece of the template [e.g. an author or date], leave it out rather than making it up.