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Citing Sources

Citing Sources. Telling your audience where you got your information for your report. Cite? Source? Whaaatttt?. A source is any book, encyclopedia, magazine, video, internet website, etc. that you use to find information about your research topic.

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Citing Sources

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  1. Citing Sources Telling your audience where you got your information for your report

  2. Cite? Source? Whaaatttt? • A source is any book, encyclopedia, magazine, video, internet website, etc. that you use to find information about your research topic. • Cite means to tell your audience what books, magazines, encyclopedias, websites, etc. that you used to complete your project.

  3. Citing Sources • When you cite your sources, you are giving credit to the author or person who originally researched, wrote, and published the information that you find in books, magazines, websites, etc. • If you do not give credit to these people, you are stealing their ideas, pretending their ideas are your own ideas. This is called plagiarism.

  4. Plagiarism • Stealing Words - Plagiarism means to steal the ideas or words of another person and use them as your own and not give credit to the person who wrote them. It is called LITERARY THEFT! • You CAN NOT copy every word right out of a book, magazine, website, encyclopedia, etc. You MUST put information into your own words. You must paraphrase.

  5. Paraphrase • Paraphrasing means you put things into your own words. • To paraphrase, read one paragraph at a time. Look up, close your eyes, and ask yourself what you just read. • Write down the important information you just read without looking at the paragraph. In other words, summarize what you just read.

  6. Remember…. • Your teachers were not born yesterday! They know when you have plagiarized. All they have to do is ask you to pronounce or define a word, and if you can’t pronounce or define the word, they know you have copied straight from the book.

  7. How to Cite Sources • Kathy Schrock has a wonderful website that has examples of how to cite your sources correctly. Her website is http://oslis.k12.or.us/elementary/howto/cited/docs/citeexamples.pdf. This website was used to prepare this presentation. • You MUST have all the information that you see in each example in order to cite your source CORRECTLY.

  8. Citing Correctly • Your teacher will not only be looking to see if you cited your sources but he/she will be looking to see if you cited them CORRECTLY, with all the information asked for in the examples. • Your teacher will most likely take points off if you do not cite correctly.

  9. Bibliography • A bibliography is a list of the sources that you used for your project. They are cited CORRECTLY. • The bibliography is usually the last page of your report or the last slide of your PowerPoint presentation. • DON’T FORGET!!! Cite your pictures also!

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