# Filled Source-Use Record: Quote or Paraphrase

The source sentence is real. Workshop Notes, its drawer-label article and both surrounding paragraphs are original teaching examples, not observed publisher work or a statement by a real person.

## Completed Source Record

| Field | Completed value |
| --- | --- |
| Source | Microsoft capitalization style guide |
| URL | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/capitalization |
| Source section | Capitalization: all-uppercase emphasis guidance |
| Publisher update date | August 26, 2024 |
| Source-reading date | October 8, 2026 |
| Exact selected passage | The short sentence preserved inside the direct-quotation paragraph below |
| Paragraph purpose | Apply the source advice to an invented drawer-label instruction |
| Chosen option | Attributed paraphrase |
| Reason | The idea serves the teaching paragraph; the precise source phrasing is not the subject |

## Direct-Quotation Option

We want the drawer instruction to stand out without changing the label's spelling. Microsoft's style guide says, “Don't use all uppercase for emphasis.” For this teaching draft, we will keep the label's usual casing and explain the action in the sentence.

The selected Microsoft sentence is unchanged. Its spelling, capitalization, contraction and period are retained; quotation marks distinguish it from the original teaching sentences around it. Microsoft did not write or approve the drawer-label example.

## Attributed-Paraphrase Option

Microsoft's style guide advises against using capital letters throughout a word or phrase simply to make it stand out. For our teaching drawer-label draft, we will keep the label's usual casing and explain the action in the sentence.

The first sentence is independently worded and attributes the advice to Microsoft. It preserves the narrow all-capital-emphasis meaning. The second sentence is the teaching blog's proposed choice, not further Microsoft guidance.

## Completed Meaning Check

- Kept: the source advice concerns text in capitals throughout for emphasis.
- Not added: a rule against proper-name capitals, sentence beginnings or every heading.
- Source words: only the sentence enclosed in quotation marks in the direct-quotation option.
- Our wording: the paraphrase and all teaching context/explanation.
- Source date and checked date: separately recorded; neither is the teaching article's publication date.
- Actual publisher implementation or reader test: not performed.

## Reuse With Your Own Source

1. Replace the source title, real URL, section and dates with the source you read. Keep the exact selected words separately from your notes.
2. Write both choices only when comparing them helps: an unchanged short quote, and a genuinely rewritten attributed paraphrase.
3. Compare the paraphrase with the source meaning. Correct any broader, stronger, reversed or unsupported conclusion.
4. Write your own explanation of why the source material belongs in your answer. Do not make the quote speak for an unrelated claim.
5. Choose the option that serves your paragraph. Remove the unused teaching scenario and preserve attribution in the version you publish.

## Guidance Used

The article links ANU quotation guidance and Cambridge Libraries paraphrasing guidance, checked on October 8, 2026. Those are academic writing references; this record does not impose their page-number or long-quotation conventions on every blog. This file is an original completed teaching resource, not a product export.