Citing Your Sources

plagiarism[ pley-juh-riz-uhm, -jee-uh-riz-]

noun. an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author:

It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne.

a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation:

“These two manuscripts are clearly plagiarisms,” the editor said, tossing them angrily on the floor.

(https://www.dictionary.com/browse/plagiarism?s=t)

When you use information or quote another person's work, you should always put the author's name and page number in parenthesis. (Ives, p.1)

You can use sentence frames to show that the idea is not your own. Examples on the next slide.

Use quotation marks when you are copying word for word what the original text says.

If it is a website, you can just write (www.webmd.com)

According to ___, “...”

“…”. As (Author’s full name) points out in (title of publication), ...

“…”. A key piece of evidence that backs up my opinion is… 

As reported by ___, “ … “

As stated in ___, “ … “

The facts reported in ___, show that… 

The article states/says that ___.

When you got information from somewhere else.

When the information is not in your words

If you had to look the information up on a website or article.

When in doubt, cite it!

your original idea

common knowledge (something everyone knows)

A works cited page is a list of the works you have used in your paper

It has a little more information than the in text citations.

this helps the reader verify the information you provide.

it gives credit to the owner of the work you used.

it protects you from being accused of plagiarism.