by acburton | Mar 22, 2024 | Resources for Students, Writing Resources
Typically, in your first and second year at UCI, most, if any, of your essay writing will come in the form of assignments where you are asked to cap your thoughts, ideas, and references in about 3-5 pages. Perhaps toward the end of a writing course or as a final...
by acburton | Mar 22, 2024 | Resources for Students, Writing Resources
Selecting your research question and creating a clear goal and structure for your writing can be challenging – whether you are doing it for the first time or if you’ve done it many times before. It can be especially difficult when your research question starts to look...
by acburton | Mar 21, 2024 | Resources for Students, Writing Resources
If you’ve ever had a professor ask you to “use quotes” or quote other texts in your writing before, you know that it’s no easy task. It can feel awkward sometimes to determine what parts of the text are worth quoting, as well as how to directly quote in your writing...
by acburton | Mar 21, 2024 | Resources for Students, Writing Resources
“For thirty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whetheryou accomplish the things you value. How does this happen? How...
by jleemcga | Sep 6, 2023 | Resources for Students, Writing Resources
An Introduction to Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Quoting Whenever we’re assigned an essay or writing project that asks us to reference others’ ideas, it can be difficult to determine when to use our own words, the author’s words, or an overview of the text instead....
by jleemcga | Aug 18, 2023 | Resources for Students, Writing Resources
What is summarizing? A summary of a text is a short overview of the main ideas written in your own words. While paraphrasing involves expressing specific ideas or details from a larger text in your own words, we generally summarize whole texts (whether it is an essay,...
