By Dr Andree Swanson Artwork: Dr. Murad Abel You have been tasked to write your first paper and the instructor gave you feedback. It read: “This is not appropriate for an academic paper.” You are now at a loss to understand what defines an academic paper. Here are a few tips to remember when writing. Most importantly, you are creating a document that is in your own words. It is imperative to properly research the paper. It is not unusual to have parenthetical citations after each sentence. The reason this happens is that you have conducted a great deal of research on your topic. You are now reflecting on what you have read, so the bottom line is... you are not presenting new information . Let me restate this. You are presenting someone else’s information . In fact, you may be presenting more than one person’s information and must properly cite each source. Your paper is filled with ideas that came from many journals, web sites, and bo
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