Citing Sources
To avoid questions of plagiarism, be sure to cite the sources you include in your paper or projects. Citing sources gives credit to the individuals who originally published the information, and it gives credibility to your research and writing. In most cases, your citations should be in MLA or APA formats. Be sure to clarify with your teacher in which format your citations should appear.
Purdue OWLThe Purdue Online Writing Lab is an excellent resource for creating Work Cited pages and checking paper formating items like the heading.
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EasyBibEasyBib is a free Bibliography and Citation maker. It is pretty easy to use to create an MLA Works Cited page or an ALA Bibliography page. One caution is that the website is quite commercial (lots of ads), so be careful where you click if you don't want pop-up advertisements.
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What needs to be cited?
Any bit of information that you used to help complete a paper or project needs to be cited in your paper and be entered onto a Works Cited page. Don't forget, especially when doing a multimedia project or come type of presentation, to include pictures, videos and other similar items. It all needs to be cited.
When writing a paper, you need to cite any information that is someone else's whether it is a direct quote or paraphrased by you. The only part of the paper that does not need to be cited are your own ideas or conclusions
When writing a paper, you need to cite any information that is someone else's whether it is a direct quote or paraphrased by you. The only part of the paper that does not need to be cited are your own ideas or conclusions