Documentation

Definitions “Whatever sources you finally use in a research assignment, you must provide documentation. That is, you must identify those sources and indicate where you have used them” (Searles 199). Documentation: Giving credit to a source for words and ideas from the source.

What needs to be documented? Exact words (quotations from sources) Ideas (paraphrase of source material) Statistics Visuals

Plagiarism Using a source’s words or ideas without giving the source credit; using those words and ideas as though they are your own Penalties At work: loss of credibility; loss of position or job; possible legal action In school: failing a project or class; withdrawal or expulsion Our Class Intentional: possible F in class Unintentional: lower grade or possible F on report

Examples of Plagiarism See p. 200 Submitting someone else’s work Omitting documentation entirely Omitting quotation marks from quotations Failing to paraphrase thoroughly

Lewis, L. Myths after Lincoln. Press of the Readers Club. Original: “However much Abraham Lincoln believed in democracy, the American masses, in the half- century following their war-President's death, did not seem to believe in themselves.” Plagiarized Paraphrase: No matter how much Abraham Lincoln believed in democracy, American masses did not appear to believe in each other in the half-century after their war-President's death.

Original: “However much Abraham Lincoln believed in democracy, the American masses, in the half- century following their war-President's death, did not seem to believe in themselves.” Non-Plagiarized Paraphrase : The average American in the 50 years after Lincoln died possessed no self- confidence, despite the fact that Lincoln had a great deal of faith in democracy.

Documentation Styles MLA: Modern Language Association APA: American Psychological Association CBE: Council of Biology Editors ACS: American Chemical Society AMS: American Mathematical Society AIP: American Institute of Physics

Components of Documentation Bibliography—a list of sources Parenthetical Citation (In-text Citation)—identification of the source of each quotation, statistic, paraphrase, or visual in the text