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Supporting Your Writing Writing Center

What you need to support Opinions Theories Ideas Arguments Counter-arguments Address the counter-argument, and use support to disprove it

How to support information Examples Stories Cited sources

Where to get the support Scholarly sources Peer-reviewed articles Textbooks Dictionaries Personal sources Interviews Personal stories

Unscholarly sources Do not use Google or Wikipedia as a scholarly source or database to find information. These are not credible. Google Scholar Databases provided by the library

Citations Be sure to ALWAYS cite your sources Resources to learn how to cite different types of works Writing Center website link Purdue OWL In-text citations include the author’s last name and the year of publication: (McKenna, 2014). Include all works cited in the paper in the reference page

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