Using Information Sources

Once you have started to find information sources that are relevant and useful for your research, it's time to think about how you will take the information from these sources and use it in your paper or assignment.

Hopefully at this point you are starting to feel more confident about the research process and are gaining a greater understanding of your topic. It is also easy to feel a bit overwhelmed by all the information you are finding, though. In this section we will give you some tools to deal with all the information you are finding and use it properly in your assignment.

You will learn about:

1. Managing information from your sources:
   How to organize and keep track of the information you'll need for your assignment.
2. Integrating the information into your work:
   How to use information from various sources in your assignments properly,
   making sure you citeCitation is the practice of providing details about the sources of any information that you use in your work. Proper citation is necessary in academic writing. your sources correctly and avoid
   plagiarism Plagiarism is when you present someone else's work or ideas as your own..