Addison
Information Literacy
STUDY
Citations
& Parenthetical
Documentation/Citations
Citation
Exercise - Copyright
Overview
Why are citations required?
Research builds on prior knowledge. Students begin a project
by studying the past work and gather relevant information and ideas from
those who have experience and have shared their knowledge. As a student, you will need to know
how to read the work of other researchers and to document your work
with citations. Your citations provide credit to those who have produced
the research you found helpful and gives a path to others who would
like to follow-up on your contribution.
Objectives for
students:
- Document the sources using citations and parenthetical
documentation in the student work
- Understand how to avoid plagiarism
PLAGIARISM is quoting or
paraphrasing information without giving credit to the source of the
information.
Quoting
and Paraphrasing sources
| Resources |
The
following tools assist you with the citation choices you need
for your work. |
Noodle
Bib
(Remote access available.) |
Generate,
edit, and publish an entire MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with
the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication
Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and
formatting, producing a polished source list for import into
Word. Starter, Junior and Advanced versions. |
| Citation
Styles Online |
Provides assistance
for several citation styles. |
| The
Online Writing Lab |
Purdue's
OWL has been serving the
Purdue community and the rest of the world over the Internet
since 1993. |
| MLA
Style Examples |
Ahmanson Library of
Campbell Hall provides an overview of MLA examples and much
more. (Note that the examples are not double-spaced
as required by MLA formatting.)
More
MLA help. |
| Parenthetical
Documentation |
Assistance using
citations within the
text of your report. |
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