1. Documentation

2. 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.

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

4. 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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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