ABSTRACT
When researching your essay, you will often have occasion to consult the work of other scholars and critics. The extent to which you do so will obviously depend upon the subject and your way of approaching it; what is important is that, whenever your written work makes use of the work of others, your indebtedness must be fully acknowledged. Direct quotations should be in quotation marks or indented, and attributed in such a way as to make it easy for the reader to look up their sources. If you paraphrase or summarize the work of another writer (or, indeed, lecturer) or adopt his or her conclusions, you should indicate clearly whose work you are using, where you begin to do so, and where you resume your own argument.
