Chapter 17 Response: Francisco Elizalde

          Chapter 17 talks about Integrating sources and avoiding plagiarism. It is very helpful because it shows the ways you could integrate the sources gathered like the ones in our Annotated bibliographies. Those ways being: paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and synthesizing. Paraphrasing is when you restate someones idea and you write it in your own words. Summarizing is kind of like paraphrasing, but you also try to shorten the length of whatever you are summarizing. For paraphrasing and summarizing you will need to document the source. Quoting on the other hand is when you use the exact words of the author, and put in quotation marks, followed by a documentation. Chapter 17 is also very useful because it uses examples to illustrate how you are supposed to document sources. At the end of the chapter, there is a section on how to avoid plagiarism. It also includes a very handy list of tips of how to avoid plagiarism. The most useful tip on there is the very first one which says; Give yourself enough time to do your research and to write your paper. This was very important to me, and it will be a tip I will use in any future papers.  

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