4. Citing
Sources
Getting
Permission
Using
Other
Sources in
Your Work
Using
Copyrighted
Materials

5. Information Ethics I
• Academic Integrity
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Citing
Information Ethics II
• Copyright
• Fair Use
• Public Domain
• Creative Commons
Licenses

9. • Stealing someone else’s words OR ideas
• Passing them off as your own
From the OED: http://dictionary.oed.com

10. • I didn’t write my
paper.
• I printed it off the
Internet.
• But I stapled the
pages all by myself!

11. • I didn’t write a new
paper.
• I turned in a paper I
wrote last year for a
different class.
• But I wrote the first
paper!

12. • In the computer
age, copying and
pasting text is
simple and easy.
• If you do it, then
put quotation
marks around it
and cite!
• Otherwise, you will
be plagiarizing.

13. “I didn’t know
using someone
else’s ideas
without citing
was wrong!”

15. Buying, stealing,
or borrowing a
paper
Hiring someone
to write your
paper
Copying from another
source
without citing
(deliberate or
accidental)
Using someone else’s
ideas without citing
Not paraphrasing
properly
Possibly AccidentalDeliberate

16. • Fail assignment
• Fail the course
• University sanctions
– Suspension
– Expulsion
• Notification goes in your DU records

17. • Turn in your own
work
• Take good notes
and keep your
research organized
• Be sure to cite
sources properly in
your papers
• If in doubt, cite it!

18. • Practice good file
management
• Cite properly
– Why?
– When?
– How?

19. • Use a flash drive
• Create folders
• Save assignments with your last name

20. • It’s right to give
credit to others for
their words AND
ideas!
• Proper citation
helps others find
your sources.

21. “To cite or
not to cite....
THAT is the
question!”

22. You need to cite a source when you:
• Include a direct quote from a source
• Paraphrase a source
• Summarize the text/ideas in a source

23. Citing sources
in the body of
your paper
Bibliography
with ALL
sources used
• In-text citations
• Footnotes
• Depends on style you are using

24. Google Images Microsoft Office Clip Art
• Do NOT have to cite• DO have to cite
• May be copyrighted
http://www.swisscowboy.ch/Internet/
wallpapers/Filme/bart%20simpson.jpg

25. • Barack Obama is the President of the
United States.
• New York City is known as the Big Apple.
• UN is the abbreviation for the United
Nations.

26. • Found in multiple independent sources
• Likely to be known by a lot of people
• Can be found in a general reference
source

27. • Ask your professor
• Cite it!

28. Paraphrase
• Take a direct quote
• Restate it in your own words
• Add an in-text citation in MLA style
Summarize
• Take a larger section of another author’s work
• Condense the ideas of that section in your own words
• Add an in-text citation in MLA style
In-Text
Citations
• Correctly format in-text citations in MLA and APA styles
for direct quotations, paraphrased text, and summarized
text.