In the following example, has the writer credited the reference source properly?

Passage in source:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s. . . . A voracious reader from a young age, she found Things Fall Apart by novelist and fellow Igbo Chinua Achebe transformative. . . . In 1998 Adichie’s play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as “an awfully melodramatic play,” but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several short stories about that conflict, which would become the subject of her highly successful novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). 

Luebering, J. E. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2020, britannica.com/biography/Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie.

Writer’s paraphrase:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author who was heavily influenced by Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Her play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria in 1998, and later she wrote about the Nigerian war of the 1960s in her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.

In the following example, has the writer credited the reference source properly?

Passage in source:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s. . . . A voracious reader from a young age, she found Things Fall Apart by novelist and fellow Igbo Chinua Achebe transformative. . . . In 1998 Adichie’s play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as “an awfully melodramatic play,” but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several short stories about that conflict, which would become the subject of her highly successful novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). 

Luebering, J. E. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2020, britannica.com/biography/Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie.

Writer’s paraphrase:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Nigeria. She wrote a play about the Nigerian war of the 1960s but later judged the work to be of poor quality (Luebering). The war is also the focus of her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. 

In the following example, has the writer credited the reference source sufficiently?

Passage in source:

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. . . . The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It was initially designed by engineer Joseph Strauss in 1917. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. . . . At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and a total height of 746 feet (227 m).

“Golden Gate Bridge.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 June 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge.

Writer’s paraphrase:

San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the brainchild of Joseph Strauss, opened in 1937.  

In the following example, has the writer credited the reference source properly?

Passage in source:

Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published in 2017. . . . Her memoir In the Dream House was published in 2019. . . . Machado says her writing has been influenced by Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi, and Yōko Ogawa. In particular, Machado says she was heavily influenced by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was given to her to read by an “insightful and amazing English teacher” when she was in the 10th grade of high school.

“Carmen Maria Machado.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Maria_Machado.

Writer’s paraphrase:

Carmen Maria Machado is an American writer born in 1986. Machado has noted the importance of many writers to her work, including Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackoson, and, especially, Gabriel Garcia Márquez (“Carmen Maria Machado”).

In the following example, has the writer credited the reference source properly?

Passage in source:

Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published in 2017. . . . Her memoir In the Dream House was published in 2019. . . . Machado says her writing has been influenced by Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi, and Yōko Ogawa. In particular, Machado says she was heavily influenced by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was given to her to read by an “insightful and amazing English teacher” when she was in the 10th grade of high school.

“Carmen Maria Machado.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Maria_Machado.

Writer’s paraphrase:

Carmen Maria Machado is an American writer born in 1986. Machado has noted her indebtedness to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, which a thoughtful English teacher gave her when she was in high school.