Writing with Citations Skill List

In order to smoothly snythesize your ideas with multiple research sources you must:

• know differences of fact and opinion
• determine common knowledge
• determine when to quote, paraphrase, or summarize based on purpose
• paraphrase 
• create own language
• create own sentence structures
• blend with own ideas
• summarize
• find main idea
• condense ideas
• blend with own ideas
• blend quoted words within otherwise paraphrased sentences
• know conventions of quotation marks
• generate parenthetical references
• generate properly formatted works cited page
• support assertions with evidence / research
• formulate a way to keep track of ideas found in research
• devise a system to keep track of sources
• organize ideas
• embed quotations
• use in-text citations
• know conventions for long quotations
• understand conventions for unusual quotations (poetry, quotataion within a quotations, etc)
• know how to find information on citing
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