These time management tools will help you break down your assignment into manageable steps, and create schedules for you to follow so you can complete your assignment on time!
Improve Your Grammar
Location: 428.24 HAR 2016
Writing: learn to write better academic essays
Location: 421.1 VAN 2013
They Say / I Say
Location: 808.042 GRA 2014
The Study Skills Book
Location: 371.30281 MCM 2021
A summary is a condensed version of information from another source. Summaries usually highlight the main points discussed in a source.
When you summarize:
A paraphrase is a restatement of another author's ideas in your own words.
When you paraphrase:
​When taking notes, try to paraphrase important passages immediately, rather than writing down direct quotes. Students often forget that what they have written down is a quote, and this can lead to unintentional plagiarism.
Quotes are a word-for-word copy of what another author said.
When you quote:
Your research paper needs to provide a balance between outside sources and your own original ideas.
When you paraphrase, summarize or quote another author, their ideas should be connected to your own.
See OWL Purdue's sample summary, paraphrase and quotation from an essay to get a better sense of how you can use sources in your own paper.
Signal Phrases
Use signal phrases to introduce a paraphrase, summary or quotation, such as "according to," "argues," "contends,"or "states."
After a quotation, summary or paraphrase, explain why the source is significant or how the idea relates to your own argument.