2. HOW AND WHEN TO CITE
SOURCES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4unoOe-I0eY&t=317s
Seriously: Avoid
Plagiarism
3. • AVOIDING PLAGIARISM: WRITERS — STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS ALIKE —
OCCASIONALLY FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOURCES PROPERLY. THE WORD
PLAGIARISM, WHICH DERIVES FROM THE LATIN WORD FOR “KIDNAPPING, ”REFERS
TO THE UNACKNOWLEDGED USE OF ANOTHER’S WORDS, IDEAS, OR INFORMATION.
STUDENTS SOMETIMES MISTAKENLY ASSUME THAT PLAGIARIZING OCCURS ONLY
WHEN ANOTHER WRITER’S EXACT WORDS ARE USED WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
IN FACT, PLAGIARISM ALSO APPLIES TO SUCH DIVERSE FORMS OF EXPRESSION AS
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS AND VISUAL IMAGES AS WELL AS IDEAS AND STATISTICS.
THEREFORE, KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU MUST INDICATE THE SOURCE OF
ANY BORROWED INFORMATION OR IDEAS YOU USE IN YOUR ESSAY, WHETHER YOU
HAVE PARAPHRASED, SUMMARIZED, OR QUOTED DIRECTLY FROM THE SOURCE OR
HAVE REPRODUCED IT OR REFERRED TO IT IN SOME OTHER WAY. REMEMBER
ESPECIALLY THE NEED TO DOCUMENT ELECTRONIC SOURCES FULLY AND
ACCURATELY. INFORMATION, IDEAS, AND IMAGES FROM ELECTRONIC SOURCES
REQUIRE ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN EVEN MORE DETAIL THAN THOSE FROM PRINT
SOURCES (AND ARE OFTEN EASIER TO DETECT AS PLAGIARISM IF THEY ARE NOT
ACKNOWLEDGED). SOME PEOPLE PLAGIARIZE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW
THE CONVENTIONS FOR USING AND ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES. OTHERS
PLAGIARIZE BECAUSE THEY KEEP SLOPPY NOTES AND THUS FAIL TO DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN THEIR OWN AND THEIR SOURCES’ IDEAS. IF YOU KEEP CAREFUL NOTES,
YOU WILL NOT MAKE THIS SERIOUS MISTAKE. ANOTHER REASON SOME PEOPLE
PLAGIARIZE IS THAT THEY FEEL INTIMIDATED BY THE WRITING TASK OR THE
DEADLINE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE THIS ANXIETY ABOUT YOUR WORK, SPEAK TO ME.
5. INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS: MLA
STYLE
1. Every time you paraphrase, summarize, or directly
quote a source (in this case the film), you must
identify the material as quoted.
2. For quotations that refer to one character and are
under four lines of text, we can use "Quotation
Marks."
3. Always introduce the scene or character who is
speaking. For example, you might write:
When Harry, Hermione, and Ron are caught in the
hallway with a petrified cat, Filch insists, “You did it!”
(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).
4. We must include the name of the source to which we
refer. The citation will come between the last quotation
mark and the period.
6.
7. One day, Hogwarts school tries to contact Harry by owl. Everyone is at
the table but Harry, and he is fetching the mail. This conversation shows
how the Dursleys react:
DUDLEY. Dad, look! Harry's got a letter!!
HARRY. Hey, give it back! It's mine!
VERNON. Yours? Who'd be writing to you? (Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s Stone)((Harry Potter).
When Uncle Vernon finds out who is writing to Harry, he nails the
mailbox slot closed. This shows how mean the Dursleys are to Harry.
They do not want Harry to know that he is a wizard.
If you quote multiple speakers from a film, you must use a different
format. Begin each line with the appropriate character’s name indented
1-inch (10 spaces) from the left margin and written in all capital letters
followed by a period. Here is an example:
We will not use quotation marks or italicize the quote in the
case of multiple speakers; the indentation will be indication
enough.
9. MARGINS AND
FORMATTING
• 1” ALL AROUND
• GO TO “LAYOUT” AND
ADJUST MARGINS OR USE
CUSTOM SETTINGS
• TIMES NEW ROMAN 12
• INDENT BODY
PARAGRAPHS ½ INCH
FROM THE MARGIN
HEADER: LAST
NAME 1
• DOUBLE CLICK IN HEADER
AREA
• TYPE YOUR LAST NAME
• ALIGN RIGHT
• GO TO “INSERT” AND CLICK
ON “PAGE NUMBER”
10. HEADING: DOUBLE
SPACED
YOUR NAME
DR. KIM PALMORE
EWRT 1A
22 JANUARY 2018
TITLE
• ORIGINAL TITLE (NOT THE
TITLE OF THE FILM WE SAW)
• NO ITALICS, BOLD,
UNDERLINE, OR QUOTATION
MARKS
• CENTERED ON THE PAGE
• NO EXTRA SPACES (JUST
DOUBLE SPACED AFTER
YOUR HEADING AND
BEFORE THE BODY OF
YOUR TEXT)
13. BASIC RULES: WORKS CITED
• BEGIN YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE ON A SEPARATE PAGE
AT THE END OF YOUR PAPER. IT SHOULD HAVE THE SAME
ONE-INCH MARGINS AND LAST NAME, PAGE NUMBER
HEADER AS THE REST OF YOUR PAPER.
• LABEL THE PAGE WORKS CITED (DO NOT ITALICIZE THE
WORDS WORKS CITED OR PUT THEM IN QUOTATION
MARKS) AND CENTER THE WORDS WORKS CITED AT THE
TOP OF THE PAGE.
• DOUBLE SPACE ALL CITATIONS, BUT DO NOT SKIP
SPACES BETWEEN ENTRIES.
• INDENT THE SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT LINES OF
CITATIONS BY 0.5 INCHES TO CREATE A HANGING INDENT.
