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Avoiding Plagiarism
Creating a works cited page
What is plagiarism?
• Using another’s work as your own
• Copying and pasting anything from the internet without
citation
• Retyping or rewriting work from other students, authors,
websites, books, etc.
• Failing to document, through the use of parenthetical
references, the words of others
• Failing to submit a Works Cited Page.
• Including an incomplete Works Cited Page (one that
does not list all sources used within the paper)
- from the NWLSD Research Manual
Print Source
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Author
Book Title
Place of Publication
Publisher
Year of Publication
Medium of Publication (print or web)
Finding the Information
• Author
• Book Title
• Series Title (if
applicable)
• Place of Publication
• Publisher
• Year of Publication
Sample Source Card
Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the
Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th
Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.
Internet Source
Not every Web page will provide all of the following information.
However, collect as much of the following information as possible
both for your citations and for your research notes:
• Author name (if available)
• Title of web page
• Title of the web site
• Publisher/Sponsoring organization
• Date updated/Publication Date
• Date you accessed the web site
Finding the Information
• Author
• Title of web
page
• Title of web
site
• Publisher /
Sponsoring
organization
• Date updated
• Date
accessed
Sample Source Card
“CIA World Fact Book India.” The World
Factbook. CIA. 26 April 2010. Web. 10
May 2010.
Creating a Works Cited Page
• Once you’ve found a resource with
information that you want to use, you
should take down some information about
that source.
• Use the NWLSD Research Manual to
assist you. It’s available in the library and
online at http://nwhslmic.wikispaces.com/.
Works Cited Page
• The words Works Cited should be centered at the top of
the page.
• Entries should be listed alphabetically by first word.
• The first line begins at the left margin and all other lines
are indented five spaces.
• Entries should be organized exactly as they are on your
source card (author’s last name followed by the first
name, the source title, and the publishing information).
• The whole page should be double-spaced.
• Correct punctuation should be used.
Sample Works Cited Page
Works Cited
“CIA World Fact Book India.” The World
Factbook. CIA. 26 April 2010. Web. 10
May 2010.
Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the
Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th
Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.
What information must be cited?
• Summary – a brief restatement of the
main ideas in a source, using your own
words
• Paraphrase – restates information from
a source using your own words
• Quotations – the record of the exact
words of a written or spoken sour, set
off by quotation marks
In-text Citations
Each time you use notes that you took from
one of your sources (whether it is a
summary, paraphrase, or direct quote) in
your paper, you must provide a citation for
it, which should include the author’s name
(or title if author’s name is not
available)and the page number(s).
Sample In Text Citations
India’s form of government is a federal
republic. India gained its independence
from the UK on August 15, 1947 (“CIA
World Factbook India”).
On January 16, 1991, television
viewers worldwide saw the beginnings of
Operation Desert Storm (Feinstein 38).