Once you have found sources, there are two ways to use them in a paper: quotation and paraphrase. Quotation means placing a source's words in quotation marks and using them exactly as you found them, whereas paraphrasing means putting borrowed ideas o

Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. A paraphrase must also be attributed to the original source. Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a somewhat broader segment of the sour

When paraphrasing, you have to be careful to avoid accidental plagiarism. This can happen if the paraphrase is too similar to the original quote, with phrases or whole sentences that are identical (and should therefore be in quotation marks). It can also