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Citing

Citing Sources - Snippet According to Dr. Sharron Cassavant (Northeastern Univ.), the purpose of citing sources is:
  1. To acknowledge your indebtedness to the words and/or ideas of someone else.
  2. To allow your reader to find what you found in the course of your research.

Citing sources will help you avoid plagiarism.  Plagiarism has been defined as "using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information." (Indiana University)  

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

  • another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
  • any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge;
  • quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
  • paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.

Citation Machine (The Landmark Project)

Citing Sources (Duke University Libraries) has APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian examples.

Sources: Examples  (Dartmouth College) has APA, MLA, Science examples.

Electronic References | APA Style Information excerpted from the 5th edition of the Publication Manual (© 2001).  "Because electronic media change rapidly, we will update this page regularly as there are additions, changes, or clarifications to APA style.

APA Style Rules from the American Psychological Association is a printable handout giving examples of citing print and electronic sources in the APA style.

MLA User Guide is a printable handout giving examples of citing print and electronic sources in the APA style.

CBE Citation Style Guide is a link to a style page from Ohio State University.

Information Literacy News
“MindMashup”: Call for Entries
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announces the Second Annual Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information sharing and aims to broaden the discussion of access to scholarly research by inviting students to express their views creatively. The 2008 contest theme is [...] Source: Highline Community College Library » Information Literacy   Posted: April 30, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Research Resources News
Free Science & Illustrated Words
The Open Science Directory is attempting to bridge the scientific “digital divide” by providing access to a wide range of journals to researchers in both developing and developed countries. On a smaller scale, the Biology Corner offers online labs, worksheets, and “webquests” oriented towards upper level high school students and their teachers. [...] Source: Highline Community College Library » Research Resources   Posted: April 18, 2008 at 8:48 am


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Campus News
Welcome to Spring Quarter 2008!
Come by and visit anytime we’re open:Sunday: 2pm-10pm Monday-Friday: 7am-10pm Saturday: 9am-5pm If we’re not open, you may place library materials in the Book Drop, just outside the front doors. Source: Highline Community College Library » Library Hours
Posted: March 31, 2008 at 10:05 am

Plant Sale~ May 9~ 9am to 1pm
This plant sale is sponsored by the Biology Lab and Gerry Barclay's Biology students who grow most of the plants. Source: What's Up at Highline Community College
New HCC Alerts service
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