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Research expectations for your essay
- You must include at least eight sources for your paper.
- Use scholarly sources. Scholarly typically means that the source has been "peer-reviewed," which is a lengthy editing and review process by other researchers considered experts in that field. Scholarly sources are often journal articles or books, but can also be primary or secondary research.
- Your paper must include a works cited page, and your paper must follow MLA conventions, which includes in-text citations whenever you quote and whenever you summarize a source. Use in-text citations when you write about anything that is not either common knowledge or your own idea/opinion.
