Get the Most Out of This Course

You have already found your sources and checked that they hold up. The work that’s left is what readers actually judge you on: how you use what you found. This short chapter sets you up so the rest of the course feels easy, you’ll see what you’re aiming for, who’s guiding you, and how the course is laid out.

Discover the Course Objectives

Everything here points toward one outcome: an answer your reader can trust. By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• attribute every substantive claim with a consistent in-text citation and a matching reference entry.

• paraphrase a source in your own words and structure, without falling into close-paraphrase.

• keep evidence and your own opinion clearly apart, and say honestly what you’re unsure about.

• write a disclosure statement covering your limitations, conflicts of interest, and any tools or AI you used.

Meet Your Teacher

This course was created by the OpenClassrooms Team with the help of artificial intelligence.

Discover the Course Plan

The course is two short parts, and the order is deliberate.

• Part 1: you’ll attribute your claims, paraphrase cleanly, and keep evidence apart from opinion.

• Part 2: you’ll write a disclosure statement and say plainly which tools and AI you leaned on.

Each chapter follows the same rhythm: a short read, one worked example, a quick “Your Turn!” to try it, then a solution to check against. A formative quiz closes each part, just to test yourself, nothing is graded. Everything you produce feeds the project, so nothing here is wasted.

Start where every honest answer starts: making sure each claim you make is credited to whoever earned it.