This chapter covers ways to effectively use sources to your advantage in writing a research paper. Sources are helpful in bringing ideas to the reader's attention, adding evidence and support to the ideas you are stating, give credence to your idea and set the tone towards your subject. Sometimes sources can bring visual images that you can include or bring understanding to a complex subject. Quotes or phrases can be inserted and so can statistics from a source.
The strategy of using a quotation, summary or parapharasing a point or the opposing side can be effective sparking the curiosity of the reader and luring him in to read your paper. You can use sources this way to your advantage by either strengthening your side or creating awareness of what the opposing argument's stand is.
You can create conversation between your opposing sources by using partial quotes and then refuting it with another source.
Sources are key in strengthening your view by noting results of a study, words from an expert in the field and visual sources can help your reader understand what you are wanting to prove.
If there is an expert in the field of your topic you can add to your credibility by linking your similar views to someone that has recognition as a figure.
Sometimes a borrowing a quote or an illustration from your source can create emotions or a mood for your reader.
Examples you find in sources can give you a little meat for your paper and back up your view or the opposition's standpoint on your topic.
First, you have to identify the sources you will use. Annotate each one identifying what it is about and how it may be useful to you. After that, you can organize them into subtopics or categories.
Whenever a writer uses information from sources, it must clearly show the difference between their ideas and yours. It is important that you use attributions and in text citations to make this obvious. By making citations it allows readers to be able to look up and read up on additional information on the topic.
Writers have to know the situation they are writing for so they can provide introductions to and context for the sources they are inserting into their paper. Be sure to make clear why this quote or paraphrase is relevant and credible.
A writer must be selective on what quotations they use and judge what type of effect it will have on their reader. For example, you could share a story or testimonial of someone affected by your issue in order to create emotion, urgency or assign importance to your subject. Another example would be to write the results of a study done by an expert to support your case.
There are three types of quotations, partial, complete and block. Partial is us using a single buzz word or phrase or part of a sentence. Complete is using full sentences. Block is using is using four or more typed lines that require indenting.
You can modify a quote by using brackets around the word you are changing to make the quote more clear. It is very important that you punctuate quotes accurately and pay attention to the rules of where quotation marks go. Ellipsis should be used when words are omitted or dropped off.
Do not confuse paraphrasing with summarizing. Paraphrasing states the same idea with different words, order and usually is as long as the sentence it is replacing. A summary is when you pick out the main points of an article or source and briefly state what the point is. It is factual and free of needless details. You can do this with a source in order to use it for support. You want to focus on the main idea and key points from your source.
Sometimes you can group many sources together that are in agreement and summarize them. It is very important that all of them are cited.
You can cite sources within the text of the document. This helps you to give credit to the source and protects you from plagiarism. It also creates a record of sources a reader can take advantage of and you are able to refer to it as well.
The strategy of using a quotation, summary or parapharasing a point or the opposing side can be effective sparking the curiosity of the reader and luring him in to read your paper. You can use sources this way to your advantage by either strengthening your side or creating awareness of what the opposing argument's stand is.
You can create conversation between your opposing sources by using partial quotes and then refuting it with another source.
Sources are key in strengthening your view by noting results of a study, words from an expert in the field and visual sources can help your reader understand what you are wanting to prove.
If there is an expert in the field of your topic you can add to your credibility by linking your similar views to someone that has recognition as a figure.
Sometimes a borrowing a quote or an illustration from your source can create emotions or a mood for your reader.
Examples you find in sources can give you a little meat for your paper and back up your view or the opposition's standpoint on your topic.
First, you have to identify the sources you will use. Annotate each one identifying what it is about and how it may be useful to you. After that, you can organize them into subtopics or categories.
Whenever a writer uses information from sources, it must clearly show the difference between their ideas and yours. It is important that you use attributions and in text citations to make this obvious. By making citations it allows readers to be able to look up and read up on additional information on the topic.
Writers have to know the situation they are writing for so they can provide introductions to and context for the sources they are inserting into their paper. Be sure to make clear why this quote or paraphrase is relevant and credible.
A writer must be selective on what quotations they use and judge what type of effect it will have on their reader. For example, you could share a story or testimonial of someone affected by your issue in order to create emotion, urgency or assign importance to your subject. Another example would be to write the results of a study done by an expert to support your case.
There are three types of quotations, partial, complete and block. Partial is us using a single buzz word or phrase or part of a sentence. Complete is using full sentences. Block is using is using four or more typed lines that require indenting.
You can modify a quote by using brackets around the word you are changing to make the quote more clear. It is very important that you punctuate quotes accurately and pay attention to the rules of where quotation marks go. Ellipsis should be used when words are omitted or dropped off.
Do not confuse paraphrasing with summarizing. Paraphrasing states the same idea with different words, order and usually is as long as the sentence it is replacing. A summary is when you pick out the main points of an article or source and briefly state what the point is. It is factual and free of needless details. You can do this with a source in order to use it for support. You want to focus on the main idea and key points from your source.
Sometimes you can group many sources together that are in agreement and summarize them. It is very important that all of them are cited.
You can cite sources within the text of the document. This helps you to give credit to the source and protects you from plagiarism. It also creates a record of sources a reader can take advantage of and you are able to refer to it as well.
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