Plagiarism – You want to avoid plagiarism. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of plagiarism is:
- To use (another’s production) without crediting the source.
- To commit literary theft.
- To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
- Plagiarism.org says you don’t want to:
- Copy words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
- Fail to put a quotation in quotation marks
- Give incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- Change words but copy the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
- Copy so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.
- To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own.
Cite Your Sources
- To give proper credit to the author
- To show that you have investigated several sources
- So others can see where you found your information and do their own research
- To avoid plagiarism
Carver is now using the APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th edition) for formatting papers. Go to the Purdue OWL Formatting Guide. For correct formatting of in-text citations, click on “The Basics” under “In-Text Citations.” For correct formatting of the reference list, go to “Basic Rules” under “Reference List.” For rules on listing specific types of references, you may need to click on “Books”, “Articles in Periodicals”, “Electronic Sources”, etc.
You can use the following citation generator (but check to see if your results are correct in the Citation Quick Guide):
