How do you cite a handout from class?
It was from James Fowlers Stages of Faith that we received in class and I am using it in my paper but not certain how to cite it.
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The question could be a can of worms ... but let's start with the simplest solution, in a nod to Occam's Razor.
Usually, for class handouts, the first question for citing is: Is it recoverable?
If it was a handout your professor created, then it would probably be non-recoverable (i.e. a reader of your paper would not be to find and access the source). However, this is part of what appears to be a well-known book, and I am going to guess that your professor copied if from the book - does the handout look like a photocopy?
[I am also going to assume that you want to cite it in APA, since that is the style that 95% of my questions are about].
If so, it is recoverable. Then we could cite the original book, which would look like this ...
Fowler, J. W. (1981). Stages of faith: The psychology of human development and the quest for meaning. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row.
Your in-text, and I am totally making up the quote and page numbers, would be -
Fowler sounds much like Simon & Garfunkel with this quote "For you see I have come to doubt all that I once held as true. I stand alone, without belief. The only truth I know is you" (Fowler, 1981, p. 157).
If the handout is not from a book, it would be helpful to know what format of information the reading came from and then we can punt.