Intro to Academic Research: Home

General resource

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University

Help using sources in your writing

Harvard Guide to Using Sources

An introduction to to the fundamentals of using sources in academic papers. Includes these sections:

• Why use sources?
• Locating Sources
• Evaluating Sources
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Integrating Sources
• Citing Sources

This purpose of this guide is to introduce some concepts helpful for high school students, or others new to Castleton, with transitioning to college-level research.

When Castleton librarians are unavailable, you will be chatting with a librarian from another academic institution.