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What is Plagiarism?
 Taking the product of another
person’s mind and presenting it as
one’s own.
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What do I cite?
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Information that is NOT common knowledge
Ask yourself - Could you find the exact same info
ANYWHERE you look? If not – then cite it!
Any quoted material
Any statistics/numbers (battle casualties, numbers
of immigrants arriving, speed of automobiles, etc)
If you are not sure – cite it!
Using Citations:
Would you cite the following information?
1. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain.
2. “A riot is the language of the unheard”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Coal was a vital source of fuel during the
Industrial Revolution.
4. 29 million people from the USSR died during
WWII.
How would you cite the following?
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Smith, Andrew. Tanks of WWI. University of
Colorado Press, 1995.
Pages 55-56
 The first tanks were very slow, moving on average about 4
miles per hour (Smith 55-56).
Source 2 : Online article, no author “Tiger Tanks” www.tanks.com
 Production of the Tiger tank began at 25 tanks per month
(“Tiger Tanks”).
Source 3: Bailey, John and Jen Jones. “World War One.” World
Book Encyclopedia. Volume 2, 1990 Edition. Page 22
 Inflation destroyed the German economy during WWI. When
the war began in 1914, one US dollar was worth 4.2 German
marks; by November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4.2
trillion marks (Bailey and Jones 2:22).
Source 1 :
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Source 4: Briker, Jason. “World War
I.” Issues & Controversies in American History.
Infobase Publishing, 6 Mar. 2006. Web. 17 Mar.
2015.
On the evening of April 2, 1917 Wilson argued
his case before Congress, saying that war was
necessary to make the world “safe for
democracy” (Briker).
Citing the same source:
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If citing the same source sentence after
sentence then only cite the last sentence it was
used in (and it is understood that it also applies
to all previous sentences)
Example:
The term “tank” was adopted to disguise the
devise’s true purpose. World War I tanks were
very slow moving on average about 4 miles
per hour. Many were armed with 6-pounder
guns, while others had belt-fed, water-cooled
machine guns (Smith 50-55).