Embedded Files
Selecting and Using Images
Selecting and Using Images
Copyright-Free Image Resources
Copyright-Free Image Resources
Can I use Google images?
Can I use Google images?
Yes, but you need to search for images that are copyright-free. Visit:
After searching, click Usage Rights - “Creative Commons Licenses”
Whenever possible, use only images that:
You have gotten permission to use from the creator or owner, -or-
Have permission to use built into the license
Is your source scholarly, contain quality information, and free from bias?
Ask yourself these questions:
Is your source scholarly, contain quality information, and free from bias?
Ask yourself these questions:
Does the homepage clearly explain what the site is about and what it contains?
Does the site clearly show who the author or provider of the information is?
Is the purpose of the site to educate (or is it to sell products, advocate a POV etc.)?
Does the site have interesting information that cannot be found elsewhere?
Are the sources of information cited when needed?
Is the site current (does it give a date when it was last updated)?
Fact-Checking / Fake News
Fact-Checking / Fake News
Citation Resources
Citation Resources
Bibliography Checklist
Bibliography Checklist
Author or creator of book, website, or article
Title of book, web page, or article
Publisher
URL for electronic sources
Copyright date
Giving Credit to your Sources
Need to Document:
When you are using or referring to somebody else’s words or ideas from a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium. Read here about Chat GPT.
When you use information gained through interviewing another person
When you copy exact words or a unique phrase from any source
When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, or pictures
When you use ideas that others have given you in conversations or through email, including parents, tutors, etc.
No Need to Document:
When you are writing your own experiences, your own observations, your own insights, your own thoughts, or your own conclusions about a subject
When you are using “common knowledge” – folklore, common sense observations, shared information within your field of study or cultural group (e.g. Mars is known as the Red Planet.)
When you are compiling generally accepted facts that can easily be found in a dictionary or encyclopedia (e.g. George Washington was born February 22, 1732.)
When you are writing up your own experimental results
(from Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
Creating a Bibliography or Works Cited page?
OWL can help!
Creating a Bibliography or Works Cited page?
OWL can help!
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