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Offices Educational Outreach   When you write a paper you
generally draw on at least three types of materials: your own
thoughts and insights; standard, commonplace knowledge (such as
proverbs, fairy tales, or well-known historical facts); and the
particular thoughts, insights, or words of someone else. This
last category raises some special concerns. As you revise, spend
some time looking at the way you’ve used your sources.  When to
Quote  Don’t pack your paper with huge blocks of quotations or
intersperse every sentence with quoted words and phrases. You’ll
drown out your own voice. Quote only when you can answer the
following questions with a yes:   Are the words themselves at
issue in your paper? Is the language of the source especially
vivid or colorful or precise? Will paraphrase or summary lose or
distort meaning? Will a direct quotation harness the authority
of the source more effectively? Will the exact words reinforce
emphatically what