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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
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/.
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
Format:
Last name, First name. Title of Book. Series
Name. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year
of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the
Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th
Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.
Print.
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
Format:
Last name, First name. “Title of Web Page.” Title
of Web Site. Sponsoring organization.
Copyright or last updated date. Medium of
Publication. Date Accessed.
Example:
Pond, Allison, Gregory Smith and Scott Clement.
“Religion Among the Millennials.” Pew Forum
on Religion & Public Life. Pew Research Center.
17 Feb 2010. Web. 28 Oct 2010.
ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE
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Author
Title of article
Title of journal, magazine or newspaper
Date of publication
Page number (in original source)
Title of database
Date accessed
FINDING THE INFORMATION
• Author
• Title of article
• Title of journal,
magazine or
newspaper
• Date of
publication
• Page number (in
original source)
• Title of database
• Date accessed
SAMPLE SOURCE CARD
Format:
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal
Volume.Issue (Year) : Pages (in original source).
Title of Database. Medium of Publication. Date
Accessed.
Godsil, Rachel D. “Race Nuicance: The Politics of Law
in the Jim Crow Era." Michigan Law Review
105.3 (2006): 505-557. MasterFILE Premier. Web.
28 Oct. 2010.
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 follow the format given in the NWLSD
Research Handbook. Make sure to use correct
punctuation.
• The whole page should be double-spaced.
SAMPLE WORKS CITED PAGE
Works Cited
Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the
Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th
Century. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.
Godsil, Rachel D. “Race Nuicance: The
Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era."
Michigan Law Review 105.3 (2006): 505557. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 28 Oct.
2010.
Pond, Allison, Gregory Smith and Scott
Clement. “Religion Among the
Millennials.” Pew Forum on Religion &
Public Life. Pew Research Center. 17 Feb
2010. Web. 28 Oct 2010.
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 source, 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
“For race to affect the outcome in the nuisance cases, courts
would have had to find expressly that race was salient to the
outcome. The white plaintiffs were asking courts to make an
affirmative finding that black people as a class were a
nuisance—akin to pollution” (Godsil 510).
On January 16, 1991, television viewers worldwide saw the
beginnings of Operation Desert Storm (Feinstein 38).
“Though young adults pray less often than their elders do
today, the number of young adults who say they pray every
day rivals the portion of young people who said the same in
prior decades” (Pool et al.).
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