Provide Citations!!
Citations:
- Inform readers where your information came from
- Give credit to your information's creators
When to Provide Citations:
- While using direct quotes from a source
- While summarizing or paraphrasing a source
- While using information that is NOT common knowledge
What is Common Knowledge?
- Information that is..
- Stated in many different sources
- So well-known that it doesn’t need to be cited
- i.e. water is comprised of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom
Anti-Plagiarism Writing Tip:
When summarizing or paraphrasing, read the text and then without looking at it write what you just read in your own words.
