Quoting, Paraphrasing and Citing your Sources

Plagiarism What is plagiarism? Passing off another person’s works or words as one’s own. When you present work of other people (words, ideas, opinions, data, images, etc.) as yours without telling the reader, you are plagiarizing. In other words you’re… STEALING

Plagiarism = Stealing – In North Penn, teachers will need to take disciplinary action against you. – In college, you could be expelled. – You must tell the reader that your thoughts, or words, or ideas came from someone else.

HOW? Use parenthetical citations. – Use them when you quote – Use them when you paraphrase Use parenthetical citations. – Use them when you quote – Use them when you paraphrase

Quotes Quotations must be exactly like the original. Put quotation marks around the quote Give credit to the original author Example… “You could go a thousand times [to the room] and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish” (Salinger 157).

Paraphrasing Putting the words/ideas from someone else’s work into your own words. EVEN IF IT IS IN YOUR OWN WORDS, IF THE IDEA CAME FROM ANOTHER YOU MUST TELL THE READER WHERE THE INFO CAME FROM.

HOW? Use parenthetical citations. – Use them when you quote – Use them when you paraphrase

How to create a parenthetical citation

Placement of a quote The parentheses are placed at the end of a sentence, between the last word and the period. If you are quoting material directly, the parentheses should go between the closing quotation mark and the period: “The chicken came before the egg” (Calabretta 12).

Placement if you paraphrase The parentheses are placed at the end of a sentence, between the last word and the period. : The chicken came before the egg (Calabretta 12).

If you cite a work in the text of your paper, it MUST be in your works cited page. Go to PF’s IMC webpage for more information and links to creating Works Cited Pages

Example of a Works Cited