Test Prep Blog for the ACCUPLACER Test

When given a writing task, the directions often require you to use evidence to support your ideas and admonish you to be sure to “cite your sources.” But what does that mean and under what circumstances must you cite the ideas of others in your own writing? How to Insert the Words of Others The three most common ways to use the words or ideas of others in your own writing is to quote, paraphrase, or summarize the ideas you hear or read that you like or recognize will support your own argument or position. No matter the form the words take, any time you use the words, ideas, interpretation...