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Footnotes
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If you want to more about footnotes go to www.herkimer.edu
http://www.herkimer.edu/library/services/index.htm
Click Under Research
There are numerous suggestions there.
Here is a good website for Footnotes:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/04/
Here are examples:
I understand that you do not yet fully grasp the purpose of footnotes, so let this be a learning experience.
You need a little number, something after each major fact that you are including from a source. If I read in our text something specific about a work of art, I need to denote that the fact came from our text. The footnotes are included for numerous reasons :
1. Give credit to the original writer for their research.
2. Let the reader know where to look for the statement that you have included in your essay.
2A. Use quotes if copying even a few lines directly without change from a source.
Here are examples :
I chose Islam as a religion to research. Before looking into what religion I was going to pick I thought of which one I really did not know anything about so I chose Islam. The Islam religion was founded by the Prophet Muhammad during the seventh century. Islam is the youngest of the three monotheistic religions, meaning the belief in one God. The religous book is the Qur’an and the Islam religion believes in final reward and punishment along with the unity of the nation of Islam. In the Islam religion there are five basic requirements: “affirmation that there is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God, Salah, the five daily ritual prayers, Zakat is the giving of alms, which is also known as a religion tax, Swam, is dawn-to-sunset fast during the lunar month of Ramadan, and Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca“(1). see this number, then look below at the listed sources below to find where it came from The pilgrimage to Mecca unites Islam and all of the believers from all over the world each year. The chief angels are Gabriel and Michael, which was interesting to me because Gabriel is one of the angels in the Catholic faith. The devil is the evil Jinn. The Islam religion does not except gambling, drinking alcohol or eatting pork. Eating meat is only aloud if the animal was killed in a ritual ceremony(1). The word “Islam means “submission” or “surrender” to the will of the one God“(2). The Islam religion believes in Satan and that Satan makes people committe sin. It was also very interesting to me that the Islam religion respected earlier prophets which also the Catholic faith does as well. These prophets are Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. I found that Islam believers do not think that Jesus died on the cross(2). Islam believers go to a mosque which is a building that is used to worship and pray. Before entering the removal of shoes and ritual washings are essential. Inside there is little or no furniture and no artwork or statues like there would be in a church(3). The most interesting thing that I found out was that it