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Monday, May 23, 2011
APA Style Blog: Can You Cite Personal Life Experience?
Chelsea Lee, in the APA Style Blog: Can You Cite Personal Life Experience? (April 28, 2011, ¶1), defines "the purpose of the reference list, which is retrievability of the source for the reader." Lee goes on to explain the purpose of academic citations as consolidation of our "foundation of knowledge" (¶2), and sums up as follows: "...[I]n general, you should provide sources for specialized facts and knowledge. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t speak from personal experience or opinion in your writing" (¶3).
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