Doing assignments? Quoting or paraphrasing information?

Are you doing assignments at the moment?  Are you using information from sources like books, online journals and websites?

 

Including such information in your assignments is good scholarly practice.  The information can be used in two ways:

• Quotations: the information is written word-for-word from the source
• Paraphrases: the information is re-written in the student's own words

In college assignments most information is paraphrased!

Both quotations and paraphrases must be referenced correctly.  Have a look at this short tutorial to learn more about quoting and paraphrasing: http://moodle.itb.ie/mod/scorm/view.php?id=54822