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Why Cite?

Why Cite?. 4 good reasons to cite your work…. #1. Avoid plagiarism and give credit. WOW!. Great hair!. Oh, I just thought of it…. So cute!. Everyone feels this way!. #2. Leave breadcrumbs. #3. Add credibility to your work. #4. Participate in academic conversations. Great ideas!.

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Why Cite?

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  1. Why Cite?

  2. 4 good reasons to cite your work…

  3. #1. Avoid plagiarism and give credit. WOW! Great hair! Oh, I just thought of it… So cute!

  4. Everyone feels this way!

  5. #2. Leave breadcrumbs.

  6. #3. Add credibility to your work.

  7. #4. Participate in academic conversations. Great ideas!

  8. What type of citation will we be doing? MLA 6th Edition

  9. 2 Parts to Citation In-text Citation Bibliography

  10. In-text citation shows where you got a specific piece of information. Example: While the court may have upheld student rights in Tinker, in the years since, it has heard only two more cases regarding students’ free speech in schools, and in both cases, it sided with the school (Chemerinsky).

  11. Bibliography gives you more information about the source. Bibliography Chemerinsky, Erwin. Students do Leave Their First Amendment Rights at the Schoolhouse Gates: What's Left of Tinker? 1999. 28 February 2013 <http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2150&context=faculty_scholarship>.

  12. 5 Elements to a bibliographic entry • Author: tell us whose work you are using. • Web page: Give us the title of the page where you got your information. • Date published: Tell us how up-to-date the information is. • Date accessed: Tell us when you found the information. • URL: Copy and paste the website into the URL field.

  13. How to Create Citations in MS Word

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