1. Researching the Internet and Plagiarism

2. When you are given a research project, where is the first place you look for your information?

3. Typical Search Engines

4. Wiki What is a Wiki? A collection of websites of hypertext, each of them can be visited and edited by anyone Popular wikis- wikipedia

5. Other Search Engines Meta search engines- search multiple engines at once

6. Knowledge of Domain Know the meaning of the domain destination:.com: commercial, hosted by a company.org: non-profit organization.mil: military branch of the government.net: usually an internet service provider.gov: government website.edu: educational institution Information from.com or.org frequently have a bias in their information. Information found on.edu and.gov will probably be the most reliable.

7. Reliable sites and resources Internet Public Library Subscription Databases

8. Why can’t I just copy and paste from the internet? Plagiarism is when you use someone else’s words or ideas and pass them off as your own (Izenberg)

9. What can I do to keep from plagiarizing? Take good notes: you will need the title, author, date, page #, etc. Quote Paraphrase Include your own thoughts and words

10. Quoting When you use the words exactly as the author said them, you have to put the words in “quotes” and identify who said it. Example: Books like Twilight and Harry Potter are great books. According to Lehman, “Even though Twilight is a long book, readers of all kinds are picking it up and reading it” (110).

11. Paraphrasing Putting someone else’s ideas in your own words. Changing a few words does not mean you paraphrased. Still requires a citation Examples:

12. Paraphrasing continued: What does it look like? Twilight and Harry Potter are great books. The length of Twilight has not stopped readers from picking it up (Lehman 110).

13. Where can I go to get help on my work cited page? Son of the citation machine OWL online style guide

14. Works Cited Izenberg, Neil. "What is Plagiarism." KidsHealth. 12 May 2008. KidsHealth. 10 Mar 2009. Lehman, Josh. "The Twilight Phenomenon." Booklinks 7(2008): 110-114.