Lesson One: Defining Your Topic
Lesson Two: Finding Periodical Articles
Lesson Three: Finding Web Sites
Lesson Four: Evaluating Web Sites
Lesson Six: Evaluating Information
Lesson Seven: Citing Your Sources
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Citing Your Sources
Always cite the source of the information that you use in your research papers. Acknowledge the author in the text of your paper and in your bibliography (the list of sources.)
Citing sources helps students avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism has been defined as "using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information." (Indiana University)
To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use
- another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
- any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge;
- quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
- paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.
At Highline most students use MLA (Modern Language Association) or APA (American Psychological Association) formats for bibliographies.
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Sample MLA format for a book: Myers, David G. Psychology in Modules 6th ed. New York:
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Sample APA format for a book:
Myers, David G. (2001). Psychology in Modules (6th ed.) New
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For each source include all the information that someone else would need to find it. Consult the User Guides below to see examples of MLA and APA style for articles, web sites, encyclopedias, and other formats.
Tutorial
Home | 1.
Defining Your Topic | 2. Finding Periodical Articles
| 3. Finding Web Sites
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4. Evaluating Web Sites
| 5. Finding Books
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Evaluating Information | 7.Citing your Sources
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