Resources for Research
Why Cite? - Working with sources can inspire your own ideas and enrich them, and your citation of these sources is the visible trace of that debt.
How to Critically Evaluate Sources - In the research process you will encounter many types of resources including books, articles and websites. But not everything you find on your topic will be suitable. How do you make sense of what is out there and evaluate its authority and appropriateness for your research?
Academic versus Popular Journals - When you select articles from an online search you need to make a distinction between scholarly and popular material.
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing - This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.
View "Your Writing, Not Someone Else's," produced by the Business Writing Center at the University of Washington
