Finding a balance between talking about other people’s work and your own analysis in an essay can be hard. You want to demonstrate that you’ve done the research necessary to support your points while avoiding accusations of plagiarism. What balance should you strike?Here are four questions to ask yourself to determine whether or not you need more citations—or if you have too many.

Many doctoral students know how to navigate their discipline’s style guide, but they do not always know that they are required to follow their university’s style guide or their program’s dissertation style guide as well. This blog both explains how a discipline’s style guide works with a dissertation style guide and outlines some of the advice I’ve given to doctoral students in the writing center for using these two guides together.

Do you need to quote song lyrics or cite musical sources in APA, but are not sure how to do it? Read this blog post for principles to guide your documentation.

Do you need to quote song lyrics or cite musical sources in CMOS, but are not sure how to do it? Read this blog post for principles to guide your documentation.