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Title: Documenting Sources


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Why Document Sources?
  • Gives credit to original author
  • Shows your work has a solid foundation
  • Allows reader to get more information
  • Avoids issues of plagiarism

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Why Document Sources?
  • PLAGIARISM
  • to take and use as ones own the thoughts,
    writings, or inventions of another
  • - Oxford English Dictionary

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Documenting Sources
  • DIFFERENT STYLES
  • MLA Modern Language Association
  • APA American Psychiatric AssociationCOS
    Columbia Online Style

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Documenting Sources
  • Written document includes
  • Citation within text
  • Source list at end of document

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MLA Style
  • CITE WITHIN TEXT
  • Burke identifies several different approaches to
    acquiring knowledge (Booth 7). In the first of
    these approaches

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MLA Style
  • WORKS CITED
  • Booth, Wayne C. Kenneth Burkes
  • Way of Knowing. New York Prentice Hall,
    1998.

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Works Cited
  • Appears at the end of the paper
  • Each entry begins at left margin
  • If an entry is more than one line, indent
    subsequent lines
  • Arrange alphabetically by authors last name

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No Author
  • Encyclopedia of Photography. New York Crown,
    1984.

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Citing Periodicals
  • Fuerbring, Jonathon. Budgetary
  • Rhythms. New York Times. 20 March 1987

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Citing Interviews
  • Pei, I.M. Personal interview. 27 July 1980.
  • Poussaint, Alvin F. Telephone
  • interview. 10 Dec. 1983.

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Citing Web Sites
  • Tips to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
  • Environmental Recycling Hotline.
  • Retrieved 27, October 1995.
  • ltwww.primenetcom/cgi-bin/erh.plgt

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Resources
  • Information on MLA citation
  • http//library.duke.edu/research/citing/workscited
    /
  • MLA citation generators
  • http//www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/or
  • http//www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
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