PLAGIARISM

The following information on plagiarism is taken from:

Gibaldi, Joseph. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: The Modern Languages Association of America, 2003. Print.

You have plagiarized if:

• You took notes from the text that did not distinguish summary and paraphrase from quotation. Then you presented wording from the notes as if it were all your own.
• You presented facts without saying where you found them.
• You repeated or paraphrased someone’s wording without acknowledgment.
• You took someone’s unique or particularly apt phrase without acknowledgment.
• You paraphrased someone’s argument or presented someone’s line of thought without acknowledgment.
• You copied and pasted information from the Internet without quotation marks or without citing the source. (Gibaldi 75)

Keep the following three categories distinct in your research notes:

• summaries of others’ material
• exact wordings you copy
• your own ideas, questions, and responses (Gibaldi 75)

Lansdale School of Business MLA 8th Edition Style Sheet

CITATION GENERATORS
The student is responsible for providing MLA citations that meet the requirements of Lansdale School of Business. All online generators issue disclaimers as to their accuracy. You may use the citations generated as a basis for your MLA citation, but you must make the necessary revisions. Keep in mind the LIRN collection of databases provide MLA citations.

MyBib
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EasyBib
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Free citation generator – ads; does not save your citations.

KnightCite!
https://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
Free fill in the form citation generator; does not save your citations. Maintained by the Hekman Library at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.

NoodleBib Express
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Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe — simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.

Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/
Zotero is a free, open source utility that works in the Firefox browser to help users collect, manage and cite sources.

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM – INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS AND GAMES
The Goblin Threat Plagiarism Game.
The Goblin Threat game was created by Mary Broussard, Snowden Library, Lycoming College.
http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/plagiarismgame.html

The Cite is Right!
This tutorial on plagiarism is presented in a fifties game show format. It’s fun, entertaining, and informative. Presented by the Reference Staff of the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers the State University, Camden, New Jersey.
http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/citeisright.html