Locating Information & Writing with Sources

Welcome to Locating Information & Writing with Sources!

Much of the writing you do for college will involve integrating information from source material. A formal research paper is a common college writing assignment, but you will often be asked to integrate source material for much smaller assignments, even in some response essays.

Locating, evaluating, and integrating source material will be a big part of your college experience, no matter your major. Your professors want you to learn from the experts in your fields, and reading the scholarship in your field is one way to do that.

The Locating Information & Writing with Sources area of the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab will take you through the process of writing a traditional research paper for a college class. However, the lessons in this area can help you with any writing assignment that involves source information.

The key is to develop a good research and writing process, and this area will help. With information about everything from locating quality sources to considering your audience when you write to using APA format correctly, this area is designed to help you through the process and help you improve as a writer with source material!