I'm a statistics student at the undergraduate level, writing an undergraduate thesis about genetics. I already have the objectives well defined and I will write the introduction lined with those objectives.
I found a text in a website with authors name and publication date that would be nice to put in my introduction. Is a bad thing start an introduction with a citation?
EDIT: Is a direct quote.
monograph
(which generally refers to a single-author book) can't be the right word for an undergraduate thesis (at least in AmE).