Now I Know

Over the past few weeks I have been working and researching fairly diligently, for me, on my thesis paper. I managed to get through chapters one and two, successfully emailing them to my professor expecting the worse. It is pretty tricky putting things in my own words so to be safe I used a lot of citations...hey, I'm no plagiarizer. Response from my professor was not too harsh, I'm on the right track! YAY ME! She included some helpful critique, one being that I should not quote a source but once every one to two pages. I was under the impression that I should be quoting a lot, but apparently a stronger paper is more paraphrasing of other's ideas and less direct quoting. So what is the lesson I have learned? It now makes COMPLETE sense why a thesis can end up being over thirty pages long...referencing at least thirty sources in the paper and only one reference every one to three pages...you do the math.