Using Quotations in your Non-Plagiarized Dissertation
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The focus of your plagiarism free dissertation should be on your comprehension of the subject. When you use too much citation in your plagiarism free dissertation, you will force out your own thoughts. You should think about citing a passage from one of the used sources when any of the next conditions holds:
1. The passage language is particularly powerful, elegant, or memorable.
2. You want to confirm the trustworthiness of your argument by utilizing the help of a reliable authority on your subject.
3. The passage should be worthy of the following analysis.
4. You want to argue with one’s point of view in considerable detail.
If a factual account or argument from one of the sources is particularly pertinent to your plagiarism free dissertation but does not merit to be cited verbatim, think about paraphrasing this passage when you want to communicate the points in this passage at approximately the same detail level as in the original or summarizing the pertinent passage when you want to sketch just the most vital points in this passage.
You should keep in mind that the most scientific writing depends on summary than citation. The same is right of writing in such social sciences as experimental psychology and similar, which rely on manageable studies and highlight quantifiable results.
Citations come from somewhere, so your audience will wish to know where. You should not only parachute citations into your dissertations without providing some sign of who this source is. Allowing your audience knows which authorities you trust in is a benefit: it demonstrates that you have conducted your research and you are perfectly acquainted with your topic literature.
Posted on: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 8:13 am 
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