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Properly Citing Work and Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism • What is Plagiarism? • How to Avoid Plagiarism -Acknowledge the Source

Should I Care? • Harvard thinks that you should. “Students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, and ordinarily required to withdraw from the College. ” Source: harvard. edu

Types of Plagiarism 1. 2. 3. 4. Word-for-Word Footnote without Quotes Selected Phrases from the Original Selection of an Critical Phrase without Footnote 5. Paraphrasing without Footnotes

Citations Page • Double Spaced • Title “Works Cited” and centered • Indent all lines except the first line

Sample Works Cited Page

Group Activity Write a Works Cited page and include the following: 1. Your textbook Smith, John. "The Work's Title. " The Collection's Title. Ed. Jane Doe. Little Town: Little Town University Press: 2009.

Group Activity Write a Works Cited page and include the following: 2. A book with one author Last name, First name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Group Activity Write a Works Cited page and include the following: 3. A website • Note: The date is the date that you accessed the material. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili. " e. How. Demand Media, Inc. , n. d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

Check Answers / Questions

In-text Citations • The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken and a reference on your Works Cited page.

In-text Citations • The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.

In-text Citations For example: • Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

Class Activity • Provide information, stats, or a quote from one of your sources. • How can we make an in-text citation

Resources 1. http: //writing. wisc. edu/Handbook/Doc. MLAW orks. Cited. html 2. The MLA Handbook 3. http: //www. lib. sfu. ca/help/writing/mla

Citing a Website Source for MLA electronic citations: http: //owl. english. purdue. edu/owl/resource/ 747/08/

Citing a Website • Wikipedia is fun, easy, and useful • It is not a viable source for research papers unto itself • Nonetheless it can serve as a bridge to more reputable sources • Use their reputable citations ONLY

Citing a Website • We want to know about the Himalayas • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Himalayas

Citing a Website I want to use POINT 3, which takes me to http: //geology. about. com/library/bl/peaks/blev erest. htm “Mount Everest, Nepal-China. ” About. com. The York Times Co. n. d. Web. 29 Aug. 2012.

Citing a Website • I want to use POINT 13. • You cite it with your partner.

Citing a Website Devitt, Terry. “Climate shift linked to rise of Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau. ” news. wisc. edu. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 3 May 2001. Web. 29 Aug. 2012.