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Research Skills: Sources, Citation, and Synthesis — Homework

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Research Skills: Sources, Citation, and Synthesis — Homework

Find one real source relevant to your Week 34 argument topic and evaluate it using this week's four questions.

  1. 1.Name the four questions used to evaluate a source's credibility.
  2. 2.Evaluate your chosen source using all four questions in a sentence or two each.
  3. 3.Explain why swapping a few words in a sentence while keeping its original structure still counts as plagiarism.
  4. 4.Write a properly formatted sentence that quotes your source directly, using a signal phrase and a basic MLA in-text citation.
  5. 5.Why do researchers cite paraphrased ideas, not just direct quotations?
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