week 8 - Source Integration

Source Integration                            
               In this week, I continued learning about one of the citation and documenting information sources, source integration. As far as I learnt, source integration includes:

• Summarizing,
• Paraphrasing,
• Quoting the text.

             We need to integrate sources to highlight a particularly striking phrase, sentence of phrase by quoting the original, to distant yourself from the original by quoting it in order to cue readers that the words are not your own and to expand the breadth and depth of your writing. Let's move to the classification of source integration!

• Summarizing

          It is putting the main ideas into your own words, including only the main points. Summaries are significantly shorter than the original. They take a broad over view of source material. Instead of using many direct quotations in an essay, it is better to paraphrase and summarize your sources whenever possible. In summarizing, make sure to use your own words.

• Paraphrasing

             Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. Paraphrases are usually shorter than but may be the same length as the original passage. They take a more confused segment of the source and condense it slightly. We can use paraphrasing as an alternative to direct quotation. It can be used for short passages.

• Quoting

              In quoting, we have to use the author's words exactly and use quotations mark only for short quotations. If our quotations have more than 40 words, we don't need to use quotation marks. Quotations must be identical to the original. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.
Signal Phrases and In-Text Citation
Signal Phrases- introduce someone else's work. They signal that the words and ideas that are about to be offered belong to someone other than the author of the paper.
In-Text Citation- are the parenthetical pieces of information that appear usually at the end of a quote, paraphrase or summary( though they sometimes appear before).
    Well, these are what I learnt all about Source Integration in this week. I hope u will enjoy it.