Plagiarism & Citations

Why is it important to have a positive digital footprint?

Plagiarism is ...

to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as your own
to use (another's production) without crediting the source
to commit literary theft
to present as new and original an idea or product that came from an existing source
an act of fraud that involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward. It is the ultimate form of cheating.

A Citation is ...

The way that you let your teachers and readers know that information and/or materials within your work came from a source other than yourself. We must give credit where credit is due. Citations can be made in a multitude of formats MLA, APA, and Chicago. You will be creating citations in either MLA 8 or MLA 9. But there's some good news, there are websites that will make them for you.

Easybib

Citation Machine

A Bibliography / Work Cited page is ...

A list of citations made from sources such as books, magazines, encyclopedias, videos, pictures, infographics, and websites that gives credit to the authors or contributors that originally researched and published the information. If you say that their words or ideas are your own that is considered Plagiarism. To create a work cited page you first have to create a citation for the resource that you are using.