Points learned from research writing project

This is my first time writing a research paper. And I understand many important points through this writing project.

• To avoid plagarism, you should always be careful about using sources by paraphrasing them.
• When using the exact text of the author, the quotation marks are necessary. If it's long, indent it as another paragragh with smaller size of typing.
• Some ways to efficiently find approriate sources for topic by using online libraries. And also, Academic sources are the ones that acceptable, the ones find by google are not always acceptable to academic writing.
• And do not forget to note down the information of souces which can be convenient making a references list later.
• Remember to put in Brackets the name of author and date of sources at each end of the paragraph that you paraphrased.
• When making a reference list, the more detailed information is need. In addtion to put the name of the author firstly in an alphabetic order, then follows the information such as the date, year, the name of book or article, the publisher, if the source is from internet, a valid address on the internet should be put there. Also don't forget to put the date you retrieved the information.

There are maybe some other points missing, because you should check out the rules very often to remind you some details when assigned to write a research paper.