Multiculturalism and Politics

This guide is designed to help you find information on how to cite your sources correctly and to avoid plagiarism.

Plagiarism is taking someone else's ideas, words, images, or other types of work and presenting it as your own. Plagiarism can be avoided by adhering to some basic guidelines:

The primary reasons for citing the sources used in your research papers, projects and presentations is to give credit to the authors of the works that you used to support your work, and to provide readers with the information they need to locate these sources themselves.. Accurately citing your sources leaves a research trail that allows others to locate the materials that you used.

• Purdue OWL

  The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

OWL - Purdue Online Writing Lab

• Why We Cite: Understanding Citation Styles

  4 minute YouTube about the concept of citation in writing.
• Best practices for attribution (for materials with a Creative Commons license)