Research and Citing

an article about geographical features of the Grand Canyon that includes an author’s name and works cited

a wiki with user-generated content about the Grand Canyon

a government-maintained website about the Grand Canyon

a first-hand account of a traveler’s experience while hiking through the Grand Canyon

A photograph of a butterfly

A magazine article about panda endangerment

A dictionary entry for "endangered"

A chart that lists the number of butterfly species and which are endangered

Who wrote it?

Are there citations?

What was the author's purpose?

Are there pictures?

The second sentence is a good example of paraphrasing

The second sentence is a good example of plagiarism

The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, fild, or record work

To present the words and ideas of someone else as your own, without giving credit

A reference to an author of a given work that can include name, title, page number, and date.

To re-work the ideas, words, phrases, and sentence structures of others and retell them in your own words

To give credit to the person who wrote the information.

To know from where did you find the information.

To show that you did an investigation, so your work is more complete.

ALL of them

give credit to the person who created the material you are using

change a few words so it isn't technically word-for-word

hope nobody checks to find out it isn't your own original work

exclamation marks

commas

quotation marks

parentheses

Generating a list of topics

Read and take notes

Citing references

Create a research question?

True

False

MLA

APA

Chicago Style

alphabetical

chronological

random

numerical