Question

What are four ways to incorporate evidence into a research paper? A. quotations, summaries, parenthetical citations, and data B. quoting, summarizing, paraphrasing, and providing data C. in-text citations, parenthetical citations, works cited pages, and bibliographical pages D. in-text citations, parenthetical citations, reference marks, and bibliographical pages

Answer 1

C. in-text citations, parenthetical citations, works cited pages, and bibliographical pages 

Those are the ways to incorporate evidence into a research paper which are very important so as not to commit plagiarism.

Answer 2

B. quoting, summarizing, paraphrasing, and providing data

In a research paper, evidence is used to support the author's thesis statement or main idea. Evidence is information taken from outside reliable sources to prove that the author's ideas are based in fact and worth paying attention to. Evidence can be a direct quote, a summary of information, a paraphrase, or relevant data. For example a research paper on school violence in Boston might contain a direct quote from a school resource officer, a summary of the worst instances of violence, a paraphrase of information about psychological effects of school shootings, and statistics about the prevalence of violence in schools.

It is important to cite evidence in a research paper by giving credit to the source from which the evidence came. To do this the author must use a works cited page and parenthetical citations. However, while these give credit to the evidence used, they are not a type of evidence.