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An overhead view of a library desk with an open book, colour-marked index cards, a pencil, and printed research pages.

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How to Keep Research Notes From Becoming Copied Text in Your Final Draft

A practical note-taking structure separates quotations, summaries and observations before source language reaches your draft.

Hands arranging printed research pages and handwritten notes on a wooden library table beneath a green desk lamp.

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Can You Use a Source’s Wording in a Summary?

Learn when source wording belongs in a summary, when it needs quotation marks, and how to avoid patchwriting while keeping ideas accurate.

Gouache painting of a desk with an open book on a stand, a notebook, pencils, a lamp and a window plant.

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How to Cite a Paraphrase Without Copying the Original Wording

A practical method for reading, note-taking, drafting, and checking paraphrases so borrowed ideas are credited clearly.