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Research Process ❯ Why Cite? Plagiarism

Your Topic ❯ Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of
Find Background Info ❯ someone else as your own without proper
Besides
acknowledgment of the source. When you work
Find Sources through the
on a research paper and use supporting material
Library ❯
avoiding plagiarism, citing: from works by others, it's okay to quote people
Evaluate Your Info ❯ and use their ideas, but you do need to correctly
Cite Your Sources ❯ is the right thing to do to give credit to credit them. Even when you summarize or
those who had the idea paraphrase information found in books, articles,
Evaluate, Write & Cite ❯
shows that you have read and or Web pages, you must acknowledge the
understand what experts have had to say original author.
about your topic
helps people find the sources that you used
in case they want to read more about the
topic
provides evidence for your arguments
is professional and standard practice for
students and scholars

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What is a Citation? Citation Style Help

A citation identifies for the reader the original Helpful links:

source for an idea, information, or image that is
referred to in a work. MLA, Works Cited: A Quick Guide (a template
of core elements)
In the body of a paper, the in-text APA
citation acknowledges the source of Chicago
information used. Turabian
At the end of a paper, the citations are CSE (Council of Science Editors)
compiled on a References or Works
For additional writing resources specific to
Cited list. A basic citation includes the author,
styles listed here visit the Purdue OWL Writing
title, and publication information of the
Lab
source. 

Citation and Bibliography Resources

How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

Zotero Basics 

From: Lemieux Library, University of Seattle 

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Why Should You Cite?

Quoting
Are you quoting two or more consecutive words
from a source? Then the original source should
be cited and the words or phrase placed in
quotes. 

Paraphrasing
If an idea or information comes from another
source, even if you put it in your own words, you
still need to credit the source. 

General vs. Unfamiliar Knowledge

You do not need to cite material which is
accepted common knowledge. If in doubt
whether your information is common knowledge
or not, cite it.

Formats
We usually think of books and articles. However,
if you use material from web sites, films, music,
graphs, tables, etc. you'll also need to cite these
as well.

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