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Student pages: Tiferes Citation and Plagiarism Guide
The purpose of this tutorial is to familiarize yourself with the knowledge of what constitutes plagiarism and how to discourage it in your classes. If you work through this tutorial and hand in the two assignment results to Mrs. Train, she will provide a lovely certificate! A nice one :-D
Step One: Definitions
Step Two: What is Plagiarism?
NOTE: Here are some areas that particularly confuse students:
Step Three: How can I Discourage Plagiarism in my Class?
Please use the following format to cite your sources: ☐APA ☐MLA
Use ☐In-Text Citation ☐End-Notes ☐Footnotes for your page references.
You ☐may ☐may NOT use Wikipedia.com as a source for this project.
You must reference the following source(s) in your project:
☐Book ☐Web ☐Journal ☐Primary Resource ☐Multi-media (art, music, video) ☐Interview
Examples of common knowledge that you don’t have to cite are:
If you use an exact quote, you must use quotation marks around it.
If you paraphrase information (put in your own words), you don’t need quotation marks.
In either case, you must include an in-text citation, endnote or footnote indicating the source.
In either case, you must include the source in Works Cited (MLA) or References (APA).
If the information, idea or multimedia content is not your own, follow 2 and 3, above.
Please refer to the Research Guide available at http://bit.ly/T6kqjK for citation help.
There is also information on http://tiferes.pbworks.com under Student Resources > Citing Sources.
Please include the full web-site address of on-line resources so that your teacher can find it. That means that you don’t write www.tiferes.ca(unless it is on the home page) but www.tiferes.ca/gallery/art11.htm
If you are not certain whether you need to cite a source (for example, common knowledge), please consult your teacher.
You may use www.citationmachine.net or www.easybib.com to help format your courses.
APA is usually used for Geography, Math, Phys Ed, Science, Law and Computer Studies.
MLA is usually used for the English, History, Languages and the arts.
Use ☐ In-Text Citation ☐ End-Notes ☐ Footnotes for your page references.
In-text citations (in parenthetical citations or citations in brackets) have generally replaced the older method of footnotes and endnotes, however some disciplines still use them.
You ☐ may ☐ may NOT use Wikipedia.com as a source for this project.
Wikipedia can be a good starting point. Consider allowing it as one of several sources.Information tends to be more up-to-date than traditional encyclopedias and texts. It is constantly policed by a huge volunteer community that will quickly remove inaccurate or controversial information. The links at the bottom of a page are often quite useful as well. I tell my grade 10 computer students that Wikipedia should never be used as the only source, and only if permitted by a teacher. Some professors don’t allow it at all.
You must reference the following source(s) in your project:
☐ Book ☐ Web ☐ Periodical or Journal ☐ Primary Resource
☐ Multi-media (art, music, video) ☐ Interview
By explicitly including your research requirements, you may avoid students only using superficial web sources.
Please remind students that periodicals and journals are available through their local library.
Examples of common knowledge that you don’t have to cite are:
(Please give example based on your own subject, eg.
Stephen Harper is Prime Minister of Canada, the dates for WWI and WWII, that Rashi is an acronym for Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki, etc.)
Students must include whole web address in Citation
We require students to use full web-site address of on-line resources so that you, the teacher, can find it.
Many students only write down the root (basic www.website.com) part of the reference. Please remind them to include the whole address.
More Resources ….
There is information on http://tiferes.pbworks.com under Student Resources > Citing Sources.
The tiferes.pbworks.com site is our new digital resource library. Please encourage students to use it and feel free to add your own reliable resources.
On-Line Citation Tools
Please allow students to use www.citationmachine.net or www.easybib.com
I give these two websites to my grade 10 computer class. University professors are sharing them, too.
They help students format their citations. The bottom line is to get them to cite sources, so please allow their use.