Good Morning! Today we will learn How to Attribute Sources What is considered plagiarism? If I take someone else’s idea and put it in my own words, is that plagiarism?

How to Attribute Sources  If you have borrowed any words or ideas from another source other than your own head, you must document it correctly.  If you do not, it is considered plagiarism.

How to Attribute Sources  If you do not correctly show where you found your information, it is plagiarism.  You can get a zero on an assignment if you plagiarize, either on purpose, or by accident.  So please be careful, and follow these instructions!  So please be careful, and follow these instructions!

Step One:  Create a “Works Cited” page.  Definition: This is a list of sources you have used, or “cited” in your paper.  It is different than a “Bibliography.”  A “Bibliography” is a list of things you have read before/while writing a paper.

How To Create a Works Cited Page  Go to  Set it to MLA  Enter the URL where you found your info.  Follow the instructions to create a “Works Cited” Page.  Copy and paste them to the LAST page of your essay. The Works Cited will be on a page of its own.

Step TWO: in-text citations  In text-citation – this where you put the correct information in parentheses at the end of the sentence in your paper where you borrowed words or ideas from another source.  If you know the author’s last name, put that in parentheses:  “I’m not telling you it will be easy. I am telling you it will be worth it” (Wilson).

. Example of an in-text citation for a direct quote:  “When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, that’s when you stop thinking about what those who don’t know you think” (Knowles).  Notice that the period is after the closing parentheses.

In Text Citations  If you do not have the name of a person, but you have an organization who is the creator of the website:   “The hover board is simultaneously fascinating and exhilarating” (Arx Pax Inc.).  hoverboard/ hoverboard/ hoverboard/

In Text Citations  What NOT to do:  hoverboard/).  “The hover board is simultaneously fascinating and exhilarating” ( hoverboard/). hoverboard/ hoverboard/  DO NOT put the URL in parentheses. 

Step Two: In-Text Citations  If you paraphrase or summarize someone’s words, you do NOT need quotation marks.  But, you will still put the correct information from your source into parentheses.  Example on next page…

Example of an in-text citation for a paraphrase or summary of an idea:  The KickStarter campaign raised almost $500,000 to make the idea of the hover board a reality (Palermo).  hoverboards-work.html hoverboards-work.html hoverboards-work.html

What do I put in the parentheses? Answer: Always put the FIRST word from your Works Cited list in parentheses. The in-text citations and the Works Cited list work together to document the research. So, if the first word of the source entry is an author’s last name, put that in parentheses. If there is no author for your source, then you put the first word of the title of the document in quotes and then in parentheses.

In Sum:  Step One: Create your Works Cited page.  Step Two: Add the in-text citations: Take whatever is listed first for your source, and put it in parentheses at the end of the sentence where you use the information in the paper.

Today’s Peer Response Activity:  Save your 5 paragraph essay in “Draft 2”  Find a partner that is someone who has not yet seen your paper.  your papers to one another  Use “Track Changes” to make 3 comments per paragraph.  Use the rubric provided to guide your comments.  Save the document with comments in the S Drive In Box titled “Peer Response 2.” Save like this:YourLastName,Partner’s LastName.doc.  the paper back to the original owner.