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Direct
quotations
Quote directly from your source if the original words
are unique and distinctive or if they add authority to your point.
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Ideas
that are summarized or paraphrased
Paraphrasing or summarizing a source is often preferable to quoting, for it
allows you as the author to use your own style and voice in your research paper.
Always remember to use parenthetical citations for such sources. just as you
would if you were quoting them.
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Ideas
and opinions associated with a particular person
If you refer to specific concepts adhered to by one
person, you must include a reference to this person.
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Data
that, in context of your paper, may be open to dispute
If you cite statistics you need to include a
reference to your source.
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Results
of surveys you have conducted as part of your research
If interviews are personal, you may mark them
"personal communication" in your bibliography.
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Avoiding
plagiarism
Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic ethics
and is grounds for severe penalty. To avoid plagiarism you must cite work that
is not your own. For example, a student taking class notes, might omit to add
quotation marks to a direct quote. Weeks later when they are working on their
paper they may forget which words and phrases are their own and which come
directly from the original source. Check with your professors which as to
whether or not to cite them as sources for ideas. The individual professor
might consider his ideas as part of the public domain of the class, in which
case you could cite them without attribution.
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I would like to point out the
following form the Student Handbook 1.02 Plagiarism. "The deliberate use
and appropriation of another's work without any indication of the source and
the representation of such work as the student's own. Any student who fails to
give credit to ideas, expressions or materials taken from another source,
including internet sources, is guilty of plagiarism. Any student helping
another to plagiarize may be found guilty of academic misconduct."
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Works cited: Books The order is
Author, Title, Publication Information:
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Arrange the entries alphabetically by the
author's last name or, when there is no author name, by the first significant
word in the title.
One author
McDonald, David Francis.
Cyber crime on the net. New York:
Harper 2002
Two authors
Cranley, Janet F., Shamika M.
Brown. Freedom on the Internet. Miami, Uinversity of Miami Press, 2001
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Works cited: Article in a magazine or newspaper
Mrad, Grace. "Cyber crime - Miami second in the
nation" El Nuevo Herald 28 January 2002
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When
citing internet sources, be sure to give credit;