1. Senior Projects Bibliography Works Cited Page / In-Text Citations November 2011

2. Why do we cite information?  Here is one reason! PLAGIARISM!

3. What is plagiarism?  Definition of PLAGIARIZE  transitive verb  : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source  intransitive verb  : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

4. Formatting Sites for Citing  Here is a link for numerous web sites that format your information into correct MLA format.  Web English Teacher  http://www.webenglishteacher.com/citation.html http://www.webenglishteacher.com/citation.html

5. Web Sites to answer all of your MLA questions!  Perdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01  Center for Teaching and Learning- University of Illonois http://www.uis.edu/ctl/writing/tutorials.html

6. Ross School Library Web Site  A good address to bookmark! http://library.ross.org/http://library.ross.org/ Click on Documenting Sources at the top of the page.

7. One more reason to correctly cite you sources…  You will be expected to know how to do this in college next year. No one will be there to hold your hand and believe you when you say you didn’t mean to copy your paper.

8. And a final reason for correctly siting all of your information in your Senior Project…  You will be graded on it!