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Question
1. Is this information you found in a unique source, or information that was repeated in all or most of your sources? (This may bear upon whether you need to cite the information or not.)
2. Who is the original author or "speaker" of this quotation or material?
3. What is the title of source?
4. Is it a primary or secondary source? Is the writer quoting someone else (secondary) or is the author the one who discovered the knowledge/information? If the source is secondary, who is being quoted or cited originally?
5. What do you know about the source of the citation? Is she/he an expert, such as a scientist, doctor, government official, college professor, etc?
6. Where did you find the article? In what journal or magazine, on what website, in what book?
7. If a website, who sponsors the website (what organization, government, company)?
8. When was this information published? What is the date on it?
9. Are you repeating the source's words exactly or just abstracting (summarizing) what was said? Which would be better, in this case?