3. www.evc.edu

6. Resources Available for Checkout
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Calculators Academic Journals Music CDs
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13. Books

14. Using the
CATALOG

26. The Internet

27. • UNEVEN quality
• Authorship is
uncertain
Problems with • Articles may be
biased and have an
Web Searching agenda
• Few citations
SAFEST BET for high quality resources: EVC databases

29. Evaluate

30. Authority
Relevancy
Currency
Evaluating
Resources
Purpose Accuracy

31. Databases
E-Resources

35. Biography
In Context

36. LITERATURE
Resource
Center

37. Academic Search
Premier
A great resource for newspaper,
magazines and academic journals on a
variety of subject areas.

38. Literary
CENTER
Reference
S.J. Public Library Resource

39. Citation

40. Plagiarism
WHAT IS IT?

41. Plagiarism is the use or close
imitation of the language and
thoughts of another author
without proper citation.

42. Why should you
NEVER plagiarize?

43. Plagiarism
NOT ETHICALLY CORRECT ACADEMIC POLICY
If you did not conduct the It is against academic policy to
research and/or develop the plagiarize. Thus, students who
theories, it is only fair to give are caught plagiarizing will be
credit to the person(s) who took subject to disciplinary action,
the time to research, write and which may include a failing
publish the work you are using. grade, suspension or expulsion.

44. HOW DO YOU AVOID
PLAGIARISM?

45. Plagiarism
• Put quotation marks around words directly taken from
published sources
OR
Put the information taken from a published material in
your own words (paraphrasing)
• Always use citation when quoting from or paraphrasing
from published sources

46. WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION
NEEDS TO BE CITED?

47. APA Citation
CITED NOT CITED
1. A thought, idea, theory or
direct quote taken from a
published work
2. Unfamiliar/obscure facts Common Knowledge
3. Research
Do Not Copy Organizational structure of a published work.

48. MLACitation

49. Reference Manuals
Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association
BF76.7 .P83 2010
MLA handbook for writers of research papers
LB2369 .G53 2009

50. There are two parts to
citing resources.

51. MLA Citation
IN TEXT CITATION REFERENCE LIST
Brief citations that are Placed at the end of
placed within the text of
your paper, the
your paper, which point
out where specific reference list shows
thoughts, research, ideas, which exact resources
theories and quotes are were used to develop
taken from. your paper.

52. MLA In-Text Citation

53. MLA In-Text Citation
Forma
(Author’s last name, pg #)
t

54. MLA In-Text Citation

55. MLA Works Cited
Creating an MLA
citation
1. Identify the
publication type of
the source you need
to cite
2. Follow formatting
instructions for
that source

56. Example: Book by one
author First name. Title of Book: Subtitle.
Author Last name,
City of publication: Publisher, Year. Print.
Krakauer, John. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of
Violent Faith. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Print.

58. Watch this
PRESENTATION again:
http://
This address is
case sensitive.

59. Happy
Researching!
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