1. Avoiding Plagiarism Creating a works cited page

2. 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

3. Print Source Author Book Title Place of Publication Publisher Year of Publication Medium of Publication (print or web)

4. Finding the Information Author Book Title Series Title (if applicable) Place of Publication Publisher Year of Publication

5. Sample Source Card Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20 th Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.

6. 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

7. Finding the Information Author Title of web page Title of web site Publisher / Sponsoring organization Date updated Date accessed

8. Sample Source Card “CIA World Fact Book India.” The World Factbook. CIA. 26 April 2010. Web. 10 May 2010.

9. 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/.http://nwhslmic.wikispaces.com/

10. 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.

11. 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 20 th Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.

12. 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

13. 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).

14. 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).