Guide to Citing Sources
A Statement on Plagiarism
Using someone else's work and representing those ideas as our own, is a serious offense known as plagiarism. "Ideas" includes written or spoken material, from whole papers and paragraphs to sentences and, phrases. Plagiarism also includes statistics, lab results, art work, etc.
" Using Someone else work" includes but is not limited to:
- a published writer or critic in a book, magazine, encyclopedia, or journal; an electronic resource such as material we discover on the World Wide Web;
- another student at our school or anywhere else;
- a paper-writing "service" which offers to sell written papers for a fee
Avoiding Plagiarism
Citation Machine
is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property. Students are welcome to use this as well.Slate Citation Machine
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