{"id":3083,"date":"2020-04-03T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/why-it-matters-using-sources\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:24:05","slug":"why-it-matters-the-research-process-using-and-citing-sources","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/why-it-matters-the-research-process-using-and-citing-sources\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: The Research Process\u2014Using and Citing Sources","rendered":"Why It Matters: The Research Process\u2014Using and Citing Sources"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Why is it important to cite your sources?<\/h2>\r\n<h2><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2199\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2097\/2017\/06\/19225456\/12547422744_77bf3b1337_k-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" \/><\/h2>\r\nYour authority as a thinker and writer is enhanced when you demonstrate your ability to engage in a conversation with the words and ideas of others. By using and integrating outside sources in a fair and attentive manner, you demonstrate that you have carefully researched and considered your topic. Your reader sees not only your ideas alone but also your points contextualized by the conversations of others. In this way, you establish yourself as one member of an intellectual community. A key component of properly integrating outside sources is also citing them appropriately. In this module, we'll also examine documentation styles and learn about how to use both in-text and end-of-paper citations.","rendered":"<h2>Why is it important to cite your sources?<\/h2>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2199\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2097\/2017\/06\/19225456\/12547422744_77bf3b1337_k-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Your authority as a thinker and writer is enhanced when you demonstrate your ability to engage in a conversation with the words and ideas of others. By using and integrating outside sources in a fair and attentive manner, you demonstrate that you have carefully researched and considered your topic. Your reader sees not only your ideas alone but also your points contextualized by the conversations of others. In this way, you establish yourself as one member of an intellectual community. 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In this module, we&#8217;ll also examine documentation styles and learn about how to use both in-text and end-of-paper citations.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-3083\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Why It Matters: Using Sources. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: University of Mississippi. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Drafting and Integrating. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Excelsior College. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/research-and-citations\/drafting-and-integrating\/\">http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/research-and-citations\/drafting-and-integrating\/<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Online Writing Lab. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Layers. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: John Fowler. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snowpeak\/12547422744\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snowpeak\/12547422744\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Why It Matters: Using Sources\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"University of Mississippi\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Drafting and Integrating\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Excelsior College\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/research-and-citations\/drafting-and-integrating\/\",\"project\":\"Online Writing Lab\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Layers\",\"author\":\"John Fowler\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snowpeak\/12547422744\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"c37fecec-162c-4a0e-b897-c145b59c0ff7","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-3083","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":133,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3083\/revisions\/5921"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/133"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3083\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}