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You will need to give credit to both the original source and the source you actually used. For example, if you read Chan's
book (published in 2002) and wanted to quote or paraphrase Chan's quotation of Nguyen (who published her work in
1999), your in-text citation will look like this:
or
On your references page, you will only list the source you actually read: in this case, Chan.
"Enclose direct quotations within a block quotation in double quotation marks. In a quotation in running text that is already
enclosed in double quotation marks, use single quotation marks to enclose quoted material."
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