Parameters However That Are Looked

¶ … parameters however that are looked at before the source is considered as worth using. The dependability on the source of the material is crucial and this can be decided based on the body behind the website or the book. The institutional websites, organizational websites and the government websites are the ones that were considered worth using here. The content must also be one that was update in the years leading to the start of the war to the current time of the withdrawal of troops.

The other criteria is to look at the material of discussion and the voice used, it is significant to be able to differentiate between the sections that give personal views and those that discuss facts with figures and statistics from the most reliable sources concerning the number of death as well as the living conditions and cash spent.

How do you determine whether to summarize, paraphrase, or quote a source?

When writing a research paper, the summary of an authentic article can be made based on the need to retain the direct argument of the author without necessarily using your own words and claiming the credit of the same. The summary will help the reader get the direct feeling that the original author wanted to pass across.

While in the paraphrase is when as a writer you would like to borrow the ideas of another author without necessarily making him known to you reader. In this case, you can pick the ideas and change the language and the wordings to the ones you feel your reader will understand best and expressing your understanding of the concepts being paraphrased.

In quoting of sources, the research tries to give maximum authenticity to the argument that he is passing across to the reader. Here, the exact words of the author are taken and used in quotation marks as a way of directly recognizing the original author and not claiming the credit for these words.

Annotated bibliography

Amy Belasco, (2010). The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11. Congressional Research Service, 7-5700 www.crs.gov

This is an article that gives a clear financial plan that was intended to the used in the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Endure Freedom (OEF) and the Operations Noble Eagle (ONE) and the actual figures that have been utilized now and also a projection of the finances that will still be needed for these wars in the years to come.

BBC News, (2011). Iraq War in Figures. Retrieved February 23, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11107739

The news agency gives the number of soldiers that were deployed to Iraq and a graph of the same. It has a very clear graphical analysis of the trends and the fluctuations in the number of soldiers since the beginning of the war to date.