Writing an Essay: The Good Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

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Google is not a good academic research source. Good sources should provide trustworthy, reliable and expert evidence and can be accessed from the HCC library. Different databases contain the information required. Clicking on Peer Reviewed Journals helps in avoiding a mass of non-academic materials. Peer Reviewed Journals provide quality expert information that can be relied upon when writing an essay. Citations and quotes are used to refer to author’s work or ideas that are incorporated in the essay. Information from the source can be quoted when using author’s exact words, summarized by including only the main points or paraphra...