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You must give credit to the originator of words and ideas that you reference in your writing. You may do this with footnotes at the bottom of the page or parenthetically within the body of your text. At the end of your paper, you provide a "Works Cited" list of all the books, journal articles, websites, and other information resources that you used in your research.
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