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Using your question list, take notes from sources such as books, web sites, journals and texts. You should also add your own ideas and opinions about the information.
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Paraphrase: If you need the information from a large amount of text, don't copy and paste the huge blocks of text rewrite it in your own words. Information should be cited (giving credit to its source).
Summarize: (read a large section for overall meaning and summarize it into one or two sentences). Summarize at the beginning of the research. Information should be cited if there are facts and knowledge.
Copy and paste: small portions of text on specific details, facts, definitions, and statistics. Information should be cited if there are facts and knowledge.
Quotes: Quotations are reserved for one or two sentence statements that prove a point. You need to use quotation marks and footnotes. e.g. "Only two things are finite" (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955)
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