Safe Assign

Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) are used by Stayer University.  They identify three guidelines to ensure that (1) your writing is professional, (2) you avoid plagiarizing others, and (3) you give credit to others in your work.   

Strayer Writing Standards can be found in the Getting Started section in Blackboard.  Additionally, research, writing and citation tools, as wells a *Grammarly, Tutor.com and other resources are accessible by visiting the Strayer University Library at library.strayer.edu.  Note: Grammarly’s plagiarism checker may not check the same databases as SafeAssign. 

EXAMPLES

CITATIONS: PARAPHRASING A SOURCE

You want to paraphrase or summarize a source, such as an author.

You can cite the author in one of two ways: choose either a number or the author and number. 

· The author Harvey wrote that it is critical to research and cite sources (1). 

· It is a necessity to provide research and cite sources if one writes a paper for higher education (Harvey, 1). 

CITATIONS: QUOTING A SOURCE

You decide to cite another writer’s work word for word. Place quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quoted information and add a number (or author and number) to reference the source. 

· In his recent book, Harvey wrote, “Writing at a college level requires informed research” (1).

· College professors agree with Harvey when he wrote, “Writing at a college level requires informed research” (Harvey,1).

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: SOURCES AND CITATIONS USED IN A SAMPLE PAPER

Buddhist cosmology is usually divided into two interrelated kinds: spatial cosmology and temporal cosmology. Spatial cosmology includes the vertical cosmology which “describes the arrangement of the world a vertical pattern, some being higher and some being lower” and the horizontal cosmology which “describes the grouping of these vertical worlds into sets of thousands, millions or billions” (1). While the creation, duration, dissolution, and the state of being dissolved are cycles of temporal cosmology; the existence of Buddhist world systems belongs to the realm of spatial cosmology. As far as human beings are concerned, they exist within both types of cosmologies. Buddhism is a non-theistic religion and it does not have deity/deities that are typical for the majority of other world religions. This absence of God reflects the cosmology of Buddhism according to which “the universe has always just existed and is continually evolving and devolving” (Segall, 2). In other words, while there are many references to supernatural beings in Buddhism, there is no Creator that puts the universe in motion.

Buddhism is a very peculiar religion since it asks its worshippers to be wary of such antithetical concepts as good and evil. The very notions form a single duality as good cannot exist without evil. For Buddhists, the main philosophical problem is not how to distinguish good from evil, but how to avoid ignorance and achieve enlightenment (3). The adherents of Buddhism live their daily lives trying to get rid of greed, ill will, and delusion. They believe that in this way they will achieve Enlightenment.

SOURCES