Professional & Technical Communication

Workplace writing in a variety of places and ways

A Supplemental Text for English 3764 at Virginia Tech as taught by Traci Gardner <tengrrl @ vt. edu>

Four Ways to Use Research in Your Writing

This video from the UNC Writing Center, How We Cite (1m 54s), reviews four ways of using research information: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and generalizing. After watching the video, you should be able to explain why you would use a quotation rather than paraphrasing and how to tell when summarizing is a good strategy.