Taking someone else's thoughts and expressing them in your own words. When incorporating sources into your writing, this is most likely the skill you will utilize the most. Even if you paraphrase in your own terms, you must still identify the source of the material. This means stating the source (a person or book) at the end of your essay with an appropriate label. Knowing how to use quotations accurately and effectively is important for success in any academic discipline. Quotations are taken from other texts and included in your own work as part of your analysis or discussion. They can also be attributed to a source in order to highlight important ideas within the text. Finally, quotations can be interpreted in many different ways by changing their context. For example, one could take a quotation out of its original setting and apply it in a different way. This would require further study into the nature of both the idea being expressed and the text in which it is found but it would not violate the use of quotation marks because you are still quoting someone else's words. Sources can be classified in many different ways. For example, sources can be classified by type (such as primary or secondary), by subject (such as history or literature), or even by creator (such as Moses or Mark). It is up to the academic writer to decide how they want to classify the source of their information. Knowing how to cite sources properly is essential when submitting work for assessment.