You are writing a biology report and you have included information that you read in your biology textbook. You aren’t sure if this information can be considered common knowledge, or whether you need to cite it. You

  1. Decide not cite the information. Information in the textbook is common knowledge for the biology class.
  2. Determine to cite your text book in the instances where you quoted from it directly; otherwise the summarized ideas in this text are considered common knowledge.
  3. Cite all the information you’ve gleaned from the textbook, whether quoted verbatim or summarized.
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