Cite your Source!Friday, August 10, 2012

Agenda• Do Now Vocabulary or Survey (20)

• Citing Sources (30)

• Weekly Writing Assignment (15)

• Writing Work Time (15)

What is Plagiarism?

• Plagiarism is Cheating.

• Plagiarism is taking someone else’s WORK, WORDS or IDEAS and passing them off as your own without giving the original owner/author credit.

What is Plagiarism?All of the following are considered plagiarism:• turning in someone else's work as your own

• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

• failing to put a direct quotation in quotation marks

• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation

• changing words or paraphrasing of a source without giving credit

What are the consequences?

• At PCA, plagiarism can result in an F on your assignment, office referral, etc.

• Outside of PCA, people who try publish plagiarized works can face lawsuits, loss of employment and reputation.

How can you avoid plagiarism?

•Cite your sources!!

Other Reasons to Cite Your Sources?

• Avoid Plagiarism• ?

Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism

What must be cited?

All statistics, data, figures.

Words AND Ideas: Direct quotes/words taken from a resource Ideas taken from a resource, even if

summarize, paraphrase, or reword the original source.

Basically, anything that isn’t your own idea in your own words.

Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism

Exceptions – Things that don’t need to be cited

Common knowledge that the average, educated reader would know without having to look it up.

Ex. Fact that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, dates of National Holidays, names of famous heroes

When in doubt, cite!

Check for Understanding

Do the following have to be cited?a. Next Monday, January 16th is Martin Luther King, Jr. day.b. Taylor Swift is a popular country music artist.c. Within Memphis city limits, an estimated 26.5 percent of residents

were living in poverty, up from 26.2 percent in 2009.d. My cat Easter is funny, fat, and orange – just like Garfield!s

Check for Understanding

Do the following have to be cited?a. A direct quote from a book b. Information from a web page c. A summary in your own words of a magazine article that you read d. General information that most people know e. Your opinion on current events

MLA Citation Rules

MLA Citation Rules

MLA = Modern Language Association

Sets common standards/rules regarding how to document resources cited in a piece of writing.

Widely used in schools, universities, and publications across the world, especially in studies of humanities, literature, and language

There are other documentation styles used in science, journalism, etc

MLA Citation Rules

You must cite your source in two different places:

In-Text Citations: in the actual writing passage when you make reference to the source.

Works Cited/Bibliography: on a separate piece of paper at the end of your paper.

Works Cited Page - Book• Book Title: The Secret Life of Bees• Book Author: Sue Monk Kidd• City of Publication: New York, NY• Publisher (Publishing Company): Penguin Books• Year of Publication: 2002

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Print.

Include the name of the city only, not the state

First line starts at the far left, but all subsequent lines below it are indented

Works Cited Page - Book• Book Title: The Hunger Games• Book Author: Suzanne Collins• City of Publication: New York, NY• Publisher (Publishing Company): Scholastic Press• Year of Publication: 2008

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Print.

Author name (last, first). Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.

Works Cited Page - Book• Write a Works Cited Page Citation for To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Grand Central, 1960. Print.

Author name (last, first). Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.

In-Text Citation - Book• Much shorter than works cited citations• For books, only include Author last name and Page number• Citation made in parenthesis after the quote

• Ex. In the book The Secret Life of Bees, someone says, “If

you need something from somebody always give them a way to hand it to you” (Kidd 38).

In The Hunger Games, Katniss says about Peeta, “The more likeable he is, the more deadly his is” (Collins 128).

In-Text Citation - Book• Write an in-text citation for this quote from To Kill a

Mockingbird:

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” - Atticus Finch, on page 144

Atticus Finch said, “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you” (Lee 144)

Weekly Writing Assignments• Every Friday, I will give you a writing assignment that will be

due the next Friday.

• You will be posting your writing assignments to a blog that we create in class next week.

• Go to www.mspepsin.wordpress.com• Refresh your screen to see details about Today’s Writing

Assignment

Today’s Assignment• Select one of the quotes below, and write a two paragraph

response:• Paragraph 1 includes the quote and your opinion/thoughts on the

quote• Paragraph 2 tells how you think this quote ties to our classroom

theme – “Freedom School Classroom”

• I will be looking for proper use of quotation marks and punctuation around quotation marks

• You must cite the source of your quote. Use an in-text citation and a works cited section at the bottom of your essay.

Quotes• Jem says that the main difference between people’s status in

society is “how long their family’s been readin’ and writin’.”

• Atticus says “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird…Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Sentence starters…• In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus says• In the book To Kill a Mocking bird, Jem says

• To me, this quote means• I agree with this quote because• I disagree with this quote because

• This quote relates to our classroom theme “Freedom School Classroom” because

Homework• Due Monday, August 13• Syllabus• Personal Mission Statement

(see www.mspepsin.wordpress.com)

• Due Friday, August 17• Weekly Writing Assignment on a TKAMB Quote