Citing Sources

Getting Permission

Using

Other

Sources in

Your Work

Using

Copyrighted

Materials

Information Ethics I

• Academic Integrity

• Avoiding Plagiarism

• Citing

Information Ethics II

• Copyright

• Fair Use

• Public Domain

• Creative Commons

Licenses

• Stealing someone else’s words OR ideas

• Passing them off as your own

From the OED: http://dictionary.oed.com

• I didn’t write my

paper.

• I printed it off the

Internet.

• But I stapled the

pages all by myself!

• I didn’t write a new

paper.

• I turned in a paper I

wrote last year for a

different class.

• But I wrote the first

paper!

• In the computer

age, copying and

pasting text is

simple and easy.

• If you do it, then

put quotation

marks around it

and cite!

• Otherwise, you will

be plagiarizing.

“I didn’t know

using someone

else’s ideas

without citing

was wrong!”

Buying, stealing, or borrowing a

paper

Hiring someone to write your

paper

Copying from another source

without citing

(deliberate or accidental)

Using someone else’s ideas without citing

Not paraphrasing properly

Possibly AccidentalDeliberate

• Fail assignment

• Fail the course

• University sanctions

– Suspension

– Expulsion

• Notification goes in your DU records

• Turn in your own

work

• Take good notes

and keep your

research organized

• Be sure to cite

sources properly in

your papers

• If in doubt, cite it!

• Practice good file

management

• Cite properly

– Why?

– When?

– How?

• Use a flash drive

• Create folders

• Save assignments with your last name

• It’s right to give

credit to others for

their words AND

ideas!

• Proper citation

helps others find

your sources.

“To cite or

not to cite....

THAT is the

question!”

You need to cite a source when you:

• Include a direct quote from a source

• Paraphrase a source

• Summarize the text/ideas in a source

Citing sources in the body of

your paper

Bibliography with ALL

sources used

• In-text citations

• Footnotes

• Depends on style you are using

Google Images Microsoft Office Clip Art

• Do NOT have to cite• DO have to cite

• May be copyrighted

http://www.swisscowboy.ch/Internet/

wallpapers/Filme/bart%20simpson.jpg

• Barack Obama is the President of the

United States.

• New York City is known as the Big Apple.

• UN is the abbreviation for the United

Nations.

• Found in multiple independent sources

• Likely to be known by a lot of people

• Can be found in a general reference

source

• Ask your professor

• Cite it!

Paraphrase

• Take a direct quote

• Restate it in your own words

• Add an in-text citation in MLA style

Summarize

• Take a larger section of another author’s work

• Condense the ideas of that section in your own words

• Add an in-text citation in MLA style

In-Text

Citations

• Correctly format in-text citations in MLA and APA styles for direct quotations, paraphrased text, and summarized text.