Cite+your+Sources

 Citing Your Sources 

PLAGIARISM and CITING YOUR SOURCES
According to Robert Harris, in "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers," from his Virtual Salt blog, "Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying."

In order to avoid plagiarism, it is important that you give credit to your research sources whenever you directly quote or paraphrase the information. You do this by including in-text citations in your paper and by including a bibliography ("Works Cited") at the end of your paper that lists each research source used.

// **TIMESAVER ALERT!** It is important to have an understanding of the format for Works Cited page, but there are also many tools that can help you as long as you have the proper information to plug in. Two popular FREE citation generators are Easybib.com. and [|bibme.org.]//


 * Additionally, most subscription databases have built-in citations available for resources and articles. Look for links such as "How to Cite", "Citation", "Bibliography," or "Source." **