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How to use your sources with the best of intentions and give credit where credit is due.
How to use your sources with the best of intentions and give credit where credit is due.
You should use your sources in your writing, but how should you do that and do it with honor, giving credit where credit is due? There are THREE ways to use your sources' information in your own academic writing effectively, of course keeping in mind that you need to include a citation whenever you reference your sources at all:
Paraphrasing
Summarizing
Quoting
Watch this video to learn more about how to paraphrase, summarize, and quote from your sources.
Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing.mp4Quotations are great, but they are a lot like sprinkles on a cupcake: just the right amount is great, but too many is just too much. This video shows how to choose and use quotations from your sources effectively.
More on quotations-- what is the best way to integrate a quotation from a source into your writing? This fun video continues the princess theme from above to demonstrate the concept of using a quote sandwich in your writing to introduce relevant word-for-word text from a source into your writing. Of course, you will need a citation to go along with it that matches with an entry on your Works Cited page!
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