CREATING A WORKS CITED PAGE

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?

• Using another’s work as your own• Copying and pasting anything from the internet

without citation• Retyping or rewriting work from other students,

authors, websites, books, etc.• Failing to document, through the use of

parenthetical references, the words of others• Failing to submit a Works Cited Page.• Including an incomplete Works Cited Page (one

that does not list all sources used within the paper)

- from the NWLSD Research Manual

CREATING A WORKS CITED PAGE

• Once you’ve found a resource with information that you want to use, you should take down some information about that source.• Use the NWLSD Research Manual to assist you.

It’s available in the library and online at http://nwhslmic.wikispaces.com/.

PRINT SOURCE

• Author• Book Title• Place of Publication• Publisher• Year of Publication• Medium of Publication (print or web)

FINDING THE INFORMATION

• Author• Book Title• Series Title (if

applicable)• Place of Publication• Publisher• Year of Publication

SAMPLE SOURCE CARD

Format:Last name, First name. Title of Book. Series

Name. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Example:Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the

Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001. Print.

INTERNET SOURCE

Not every Web page will provide all of the following information. However, collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:

• Author name (if available)• Title of web page • Title of the web site• Publisher/Sponsoring organization• Date updated/Publication Date• Date you accessed the web site

FINDING THE INFORMATION

• Author• Title of web

page• Title of web

site• Publisher /

Sponsoring organization

• Date updated

• Date accessed

SAMPLE SOURCE CARD

Format:Last name, First name. “Title of Web Page.”

Title of Web Site. Sponsoring organization. Copyright or last updated date. Medium of Publication. Date Accessed.

Example:Pond, Allison, Gregory Smith and Scott Clement.

“Religion Among the Millennials.” Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew Research Center. 17 Feb 2010. Web. 28 Oct 2010.

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE

• Author• Title of article• Title of journal, magazine or newspaper• Date of publication• Page number (in original source)• Title of database• Date accessed

FINDING THE INFORMATION

• Author• Title of article• Title of journal,

magazine or newspaper

• Date of publication

• Page number (in original source)

• Title of database• Date accessed

SAMPLE SOURCE CARD

Format:Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year) : Pages (in original source). Title of Database. Medium of Publication. Date Accessed.Godsil, Rachel D. “Race Nuicance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era." Michigan Law Review

105.3 (2006): 505-557. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.

WORKS CITED PAGE

• The words Works Cited should be centered at the top of the page.

• Entries should be listed alphabetically by first word.• The first line begins at the left margin and all other

lines are indented five spaces.• Entries should follow the format given in the NWLSD

Research Handbook. Make sure to use correct punctuation.

• The whole page should be double-spaced.

SAMPLE WORKS CITED PAGE

Works CitedFeinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the

Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th Century. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.

Godsil, Rachel D. “Race Nuicance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era." Michigan Law Review 105.3 (2006): 505-557. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.

Pond, Allison, Gregory Smith and Scott Clement. “Religion Among the Millennials.” Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew Research Center. 17 Feb 2010. Web. 28 Oct 2010.

WHAT INFORMATION MUST BE CITED?

• Summary – a brief restatement of the main ideas in a source, using your own words• Paraphrase – restates information from a

source using your own words• Quotations – the record of the exact words

of a written or spoken source, set off by quotation marks

IN-TEXT CITATIONS

Each time you use notes that you took from one of your sources (whether it is a summary, paraphrase, or direct quote) in your paper, you must provide a citation for it, which should include the author’s name (or title if author’s name is not available)and the page number(s).

SAMPLE IN TEXT CITATIONS

“For race to affect the outcome in the nuisance cases, courts would have had to find expressly that race was salient to the outcome. The white plaintiffs were asking courts to make an affirmative finding that black people as a class were a nuisance—akin to pollution” (Godsil 510).

On January 16, 1991, television viewers worldwide saw the beginnings of Operation Desert Storm (Feinstein 38).

“Though young adults pray less often than their elders do today, the number of young adults who say they pray every day rivals the portion of young people who said the same in prior decades” (Pool et al.).

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