Successful Academic Writing

#1 Understand What’s Expected --- #2 Collect Credible Sources ---
#3 Make Notes, Plan, and Structure Efficiently --- #4 When In Doubt, Cite

"In writing papers, you will paraphrase more than you will quote. For a report or research paper, you may need to gather background information that is important to the paper but not worthy of direct quotation. Indeed, in technical writing direct quotation is rarely used." --- MIT

"Paraphrasing is one way to use a text in your own writing without directly quoting source material. Anytime you are taking information from a source that is not your own, you need to specify where you got that information."