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Animal Rights / Welfare Project: Citation: NoodleTools

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*Use your NoodleTools account to create your Works Cited list.

*Select the APA: American Psychological Association

*For help with your account, please ask Ms. Crow or Ms. Kane.

For help with APA citation, visit the Purdue Owl's Guide to APA citation

  

What Should You Cite?

You should write down every source that gives you information for your project. For this project, your sources will likely include: 

1) Print books

2) Encyclopedia articles, both from Spence Library databases and from printed books.

3) Magazine articles, print or online

4) Websites

5) Images from websites 

Why Cite?

  • Give credit where credit is due.  The author worked hard to create the source you have chose to incorporate into your project! 
  • Leave "information breadcrumbs" for yourself and for your teacher.  By recording the right information about your source, you and your teacher will be to follow your trail and locate your sources.
  • Avoid plagiarism. Don't take credit for knowledge or ideas that you did not develop on your own.
  • A good works cited list keeps your organized.  If you record relevant information about each source as you go, you won't have to scramble to track down information later.

Scholarly Responsibility

When you do research, you should always remember that it is your responsibility as a scholar to give proper credit to the sources you use. A source is any book, web site. article, film, image or document you use in the course of your research. If you use someone else's ideas without telling the reader where you got the information, you are committing plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very serious form of academic dishonesty, and you must always take the greatest care to avoid it. To avoid plagiarism, simply provide documentation for any idea or facts that you found as part of your research. Documenting your sources also allows anyone who reviews your project to locate and verify your sources.

- Crow, Suzanne, "Guide to Writing Citations," The Spence School, last modified August 8, 2014, accessed September 25, 2014, https://spenceschool.onwhipplehill.com/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=736227.