One important part of writing a research paper is being able to integrate your sources into your paper in an effective manner while also remembering to give credit. This sometimes proves to be a difficult task and can make or break a paper. If done properly, then your paper will be able to express a sufficient mixture of your opinions as well as those of the scholars that you are reading about. However if it is done incorrectly then your paper could end up sounding like a jumbled mess that doesn’t make much sense. When integrating sources, you must do a two important things…
1) Express Credibility
2) Identify Opinons
All of these points are important for different reasons. First, expressing credibility is very crucial because it tells the reader whether the information you are quoting is trustworthy or not. If credibility is not expressed the source could just be some random person than knows nothing about the topic at hand and therefore doesn’t help prove any points.
Source: Harry Potter
When integrating sources, it is also important to identify the sources opinion. If this is not expressed in a legitimate way than the reader could think the source is saying something that it is not. Using direct quotes throughout the paper is a good way to make sure that the reader understand exactly what the author is saying rather then just paraphrasing.