Research

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Research

• Parenthetical Documentation

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Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is the unaccredited use of another
  persons words or ideas. Treating someone elses
  words or ideas as your own is dishonest. When you
  paraphrase or summarize someone elses original
  ideas or research, or quote someones exact
  words, you MUST credit your source by mentioning
  from where the information came.

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Web Site

• Authors last name
• Authors first name
• Title
• Location
• Date created
• Web Site Name
• Date Viewed/retrieved
• Address (URL)
• if available

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Works Cited

• Authors Last Name, Authors First Name.
  Published Page Title Location. Date
  Created/Updated. Publishing Web Site. Date
  Retrieved ltURLgt .

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Web Examples

• Docks, Tim. "Review of "The Wizard of Oz"" The
  Best Movies Ever Made. Dec. 12 1995. Movieline
  Magazine. Apr. 2009 lthttp//www.filmsite.orggt.
• Baum, L. Frank, Comptons Encyclopedia online,
  1997. September 13, 1999 lthttp//www.optonline.n
  et/plweb-ciggt.

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Book

1. Authors last name
2. Authors first name
3. Book Title
4. Publishing City
5. Publishing Company
6. Publication Date

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Works Cited

• Authors Last Name, Authors First Name. Book
  Title. Publishing City Publishing Company,
  Publication Date.

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Guidelines for Parenthetical Documentation

• Works by one author give the authors last name
  in parentheses at the end of a sentence or quote,
  followed by the page number.
• Klein Forest students are wonderful
  (Trochesset 2).

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Cont.

• If you mention the authors name in the sentence
  preceding the quote, you need only provide the
  page number of the work.
• Ms. Trochesset says, Klein Forest students
  are wonderful (2).

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Works by more than one author

• List all the names in parentheses, or give one
  last name followed by et al.
• . (Smith, Jones, and Wilcox 87).
• . (Smith et al. 87).

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Works with no author listed

• When citing an article that does not identify the
  author, use the title of the work, or a shortened
  version of it.
• .. (Civil War Memoirs 398).
• .. (War vs. Peace).

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Two works by the same author

• If you use more than one book or article by the
  same author, give the title, of a shortened
  version, after the authors last name.
• .. (Jones, War Novels 162).
• .. (Jones, War of the Century).

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Examples

• At first Henry had the belief that the real war
  was a series of death struggles with small time
  in between for sleep and meals (Crane 10).
• In Cranes book, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry
  had the belief that the real war was a series of
  death struggles with small time in between for
  sleep and meals (10).
• At first Henry believed that the war was a series
  of battles with time for sleep and meals (Crane
  10).