In my opinion, academic writing can transform our critical thinking into critical writing. Knowing how to write it can be helpful for an effective research paper in college. When it comes to academic writing, avoiding half-page or whole-page quotations is a much more appropriate way to publish your writing in college and makes your paper stronger. Moreover, when we write an academic paper, it should include evidence and arguments from the novel, examples of recurring symbols, or discussions of characterization within the novel. In that way, your research becomes more credible. We also need quotations that provide direct evidence from reliable sources to support our arguments. In addition, we should create a "quotation sandwich," or use ICE, as illustrated in the writing, to make our paper smoother. On the other hand, instead of only using direct quotations, we can also paraphrase and summarize evidence to integrate it into our argument more succinctly. The final step is a summary, which is a condensation of large chunks of text; it is much shorter than the original and captures only the main ideas. The bottom line is that to avoid plagiarism, you must cite your source any time you use someone else's intellectual property, regardless of whether you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing.
