Slides for MLA Citation and avoiding plagarism

1. English Lecture #1
Citing Your Sources
Unit 10 Lecture for 5th and 6th Grade at Irvine Elementary School
Professor - Omar Ajouz
August 2023

2. “Plagiarism is one
of the great
academic sins. It
has the power to
destroy a scholar or
writer and turn a
lifetime’s work to
dust.”
- Miranda Devine

3. Class Exercise
oInstructor: Ask students to close their eyes.
oImagine:
oYou have spent hours writing a book or creating a project
oYou are tired after all the hard work
oThen someone copies and steals your idea and says that they are the
ones that created it
Brainstorm with Class: How would you feel knowing someone else is
claiming they created work you have done? Do you consider this to be fair?

4. Learning Objectives For Today
(By the End of the Lecture)
1. You will be able to properly cite sources in
MLA Format
2. Understand what makes a proper citation
3. Demonstrate the importance of why we
need to cite our sources
4. Be able to define what plagiarism is and
how to avoid it.
*Consistent with CA Academic Standards – State of California*

5. What is Plagiarism?
• Plagiarism is when you use someone else's work and try to pass
it off as your own
• Even changing the wording of someone else's work is still
plagiarism.
Class Discussion: Do you think plagiarism is something that causes harm
or is just an innocent mistake? Tell me why?

6. Citing Your Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism?
• There are different formats to cite your sources in such as
MLA,APA, ASA, or Chicago
• The most common one is MLA which is what we will go over
today
• You cite your sources in a specific way in order to give the
original author credit of their work.

7. Citing Your Sources
• When citing your sources it is important to credit the website, author,
the date it was published and note when you accessed it.
• Make sure that your sources come from a reliable source and are not
too old (generally published in the last 10 years).
• When you don’t cite sources properly, you are plagiarizing where you
got your information and is against academic policy. You will lose
points on your assignments.

8. Let’s watch this video clip on MLA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypWxhhpGeyM
Class Discussion: Do you have any questions on MLA format?

9. Let’s Try it!
• Lets say your citing from the book Harry Potter and the
Chamber of secrets
• In order to cite it in your paragraph the citation is as
follows ”Quote” (Rowling pg.#)
• When citing in your bibliography it is as follows
Rowling,J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
New York 2007.

10. Now You Try!
• Pick out a book that you are reading from class and cite a quote
from it using an in-text citation and citing it in your bibliography
• Make sure you have all the necessary info that you are able to
get from the book.
Class Discussion: I will walk around to help you at your desks and
answer any questions.

11. “Let’s Review” - Steps to Citing Sources
Find information
about the book,
website, or article,
etc.
Make sure your
citation is in the
correct order and
properly formatted
Write your citation
in your text and in
the bibliography to
avoid plagiarism.

12. What Happens if you do Plagiarize?
• Plagiarizing can lead to a deduction of points or a failing grade
• Can sometimes result in legal action
• Plagiarizing in college can sometimes cause you to be
disqualified from the class or released from the college

13. Where To Go For Help?
• If you don’t know how to cite there are some tools that can help
you with how to cite your sources.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_f
ormatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_other_common_sour
ces.html#:~:text=Speeches%2C%20Lectures%2C%20or%20Other
%20Oral,the%20name
• Owl Purdue is a great website that can help you in the format
for citing sources

14. Class Discussion
1) How do you properly cite a source
and give the author credit?
2) Why is it important to cite sources?
3) What are some consequences to
plagiarism?
4) What are the three steps to citing
sources?
5) What is the definition of Plagiarism?

15. Testing Your Knowledge – Yes or No?
• Question #1: If you add a sentence into an essay that your
writing from a website without referencing it, is this plagiarism?
• Question #2: You read a website about a book you’ve read and
then you write your own thoughts about it, is this plagiarism?
• Question #3: If you find a resource on the web and change the
wording a little bit to make it sound like your own is this
plagiarism?

16. Questions?