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What sort of information need not be cited when you write a paper?

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Rob
Rob Answered:

Basically, those things which you write from your common knowledge and can expect others to generally know as a matter of common knowledge.

 

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Each night it gets dark.  Racoons come out at night.  The roam around looking for food.  Night animals are known as nocturnal.  [NO CITES YET NEEDED, common knowledge]  Racoons should not be bothered by humans because they are known to have sharp teeth and some have rabies.  There are about 5,000 cases of rabies contracted each year from racoon bites.[NOW YOU NEED CITE .. showing where you got this detail we would not expect you or people to generally know]

 

If in doubt, best to add citation for school purposes.

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msruff
msruff Answered:

Anything that is purely anecdotal and was not taken from a specific source (also thought of as general knowledge) need not be cited in a book or article, as long as it is clear there was no specific originating source.

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Trampo
Trampo Answered:

Construction material comes with citations of International Residential Code or International Commercial Code. 

When you show a technique building cabinets, you need to cite how to build walls, show placement of nailers etc.  Steel studs in a partition wall can be 12", 16", or 24" on center, so your cabinet drawings must allow for these stud placements. 

Cite densities of countertops (granite, soapstone, etc) in your weight calcs: 17.8 lb/BF red Montana granite is the default but never bank on it: look it up.

Cite tolerances on all your cutting layouts.  Just calling out .987 short of a wall dimension for cabinets is not good enough.  The cabinet shop will need to know why it has to be that long, how high (they aren't all the same) and how wide.  The day of standard 24 X 36 center panels is gone.

 

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Mindy Turnage
Mindy Turnage Answered:

go to the best website ever:  given to me from my english teacher

sonofcitationmachine.net---best ever for citations

 

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