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For example, if you were reading the speech in a book, simply cite the book. Find an authoritative location where the speech is and cite that. Or, find other sources that support or amplify the material in the paragraph, add in the necessary associated verbiage, and cite them too.You do not cite the speech itself. If the paragraph introduces explanatory statements or other work by you, then breaking up the flow with the appropriate in-text citation from the single source isn't an issue, as it is less frequent than once every sentence. Try including more of your own thoughts, reasoning, or explanatory writing. If you are writing a thesis or dissertation, the care and concern for veracity of the information should, I hope, be greater. This starts to approach a plagiaristic form of writing.Īnother problem is that you are basing your entire paragraph on a sole source, and trusting that it is right (or, maybe, the writer simply doesn't care - I see that a lot with the writing of students who just want to get an assignment cranked out). Instead, the problem is that you have a lengthy paragraph that draws upon one source for many assertions (claims or statements something is/is not so) or facts. The problem doesn't seem to me to be one of how to format a citation for a full paragraph. If you're making a logical conclusion and just add a cite with the concluding sentence, you're giving proper credit. You don't have to cite at the end of each sentence, you can cite at the end of each idea. If you mix them, you'll have to cite every sentence or two to avoid the confusion If you have more than 1 reference to compare with, introduce them one by one, paragraphy by paragraph. Be precise with expressions referring to each paper like the work proposed here, or the previous results and similar. In general, you are putting some reference in relation to your work.

The first important step in this direction was made by Doe and here we summarize the most important findings. In this chapter we introduce a related problem examined in. The work in addresses the problem (.) while the method proposed here (.) The proposed method can be compared to the work of.