Incorporating Sources into a Research Project

This resource, from the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab, gives tips and advice for effective note-taking, which is a key step in the research process and will help you to incorporate the information from sources into your paper.

Another resource from the Excelsior College OWL focuses specifically on how to integrate information from sources into your paper as you go through the drafting and writing process.

This resource, from Purdue OWL, is intended to help you become familiar with the distinctions between quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. It compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short exercise that you can use to practice these skills.

This video explains how to paraphrase information correctly to avoid plagiarism.

From the Purdue OWL, a website that not only talks about how to paraphrase, but also gives examples of good paraphrasing versus plagiarism.

This resource goes over the "Nuts & Bolts" of integrating, including how to choose the relevant parts of a source, quoting, and paraphrasing.