Plan your paper:
Take Effective Notes:
Use Noodletools notecards, Google docs, or Zotero
Include complete citation information!
Cite properly:
Use quotation marks when directly stating another person’s work.
When to cite?
When using a direct quote
Paraphrasing an idea from a text
Summarizing a text
Using facts, information, and data, anything that is not common knowledge
When in doubt, cite!
Cite while you write -- do not leave your citations until the last minute.