When a professor asks you to "cite your sources", what's the point?
Well, citations serve three major roles in scholarly work:
In each case, it's important that you acknowledge the ways in which others' ideas contributed to your own. Otherwise, you run the risk of plagiarism.
If you incorporate or refer to others' theories, words, ideas or concepts in your paper, you must document each one using a citation.
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