Out of Cite

Sources are something crucial to nearly all writing. Almost anytime you write a paper, the use of other people’s work is included in your own. Doing so adds emphasis, gives examples, provides evidence to back up your argument, or adds credibility to your paper. When writing to an academic audience, all of these things are things you want to be sure to do.

Finding good sources can sometimes be difficult. Not all writing out there is credible. Actually going to the library and using one of their many references is a great way to get trustworthy information to use in a paper. But most of the time, we just want to look things up online. There is a lot of great information out there for us to access online, but you have to know where to look. Wikipedia is not the place to get trusted, reliable information. If you go on a library’s website and use its databases, you will find trustworthy articles and academic journals.

Citing these works is also something that is very important to your paper. When directly quoting a source, you need to be sure to put the authors name after it. At the end of the paper you need to make a bibliography where you list all the references used throughout the entire paper.

It’s really simple to use references in a paper if you know how. And ultimately, backing your writing up with supporting facts and statistics only makes your work better.