REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
CITATION STYLES
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Question
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Knowledge that the average person would know without having to look it up.
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Knowledge that you would only know if you are in college.
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Information that most people DO NOT know.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Broadly speaking, common knowledge refers to information that the average, educated reader would accept as reliable without having to look it up.
Detailed explanation-2: -Information can be considered “common knowledge” if multiple sources have the same information–and none of those sources have a citation for that information. The reason this kind of information is called “common” knowledge is because a large group of people–a community–shares the same knowledge.
Detailed explanation-3: -One sign that something is community knowledge is that it is stated in 5 or more sources. So, if it’s known to educated people, or can be easily looked up, or appears in many sources, it is likely to be “common knowledge” and so does not need to be cited.