Citing Your Sources

Citing Your Sources

Multiple Choice

What is plagiarism?

• When you have a bad cough, you have plagiarism.

• When someone takes your phone and changes all your passwords.

• When a person uses the words and work by someone else and pretends it is their own.

• When you are charged with a crime in court.

According to Dictionary.com, it is

• 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)

Multiple Select

What are TWO ways to avoid plagiarism?

• always say "According to..."

• Use quotations when the words are not yours.

• Paraphrase what the author said but do not give them credit for the information.

• never write a paper for school.

In-text citations

• 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)

Sentence frames for in-text citations

• 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 ___.

  
  

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Open Ended

Choose a sentence frame and paraphrase the following sentence: There are more than 1,000 species of sharks and rays, with new species discovered every year.

The information came from https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/shark

When Should You Cite Your Sources

• 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!

You do not have to cite information that is

• your original idea

• common knowledge (something everyone knows)

Multiple Choice

Should I cite this?

The sky is blue.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Should I cite this?

My sister's name is Nicole.

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Should I cite this?

The average temperature in Nebraska in February is 37 degrees.

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Do I need to cite this?

Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Do I need to cite this?

Sharks live in the ocean.

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Should I cite this?

The sky is blue.

• Yes

• No

Works Cited Page

• 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.

Works cited pages

look like this. They are the last page of the essay. On their own page.