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There are two reasons for citing your sources.
| 1. Give credit to authors and publishers. |
| 2. Give credibility to your finished work. |
Always jot down where you found information and include the author's name, title of the work, publisher, place of publication, date, pages where information was found. If it is a web site, record the URL, date the page was accessed, and as much information as you can find about the sponsoring institution or organization and author for the site. (It is a good idea to print out at least one page of a web page for later reference.) In this way, when you actually start writing your research paper, you will have all the information you need to do your source notes and works-cited list.
Teachers at Pembroke Academy expect their students to follow the style for source notes and bibliographies in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (New York: Modern Language Association, c1999). Another good source for source note and bibliography styles is Writer's Inc. (Wilmington, MA: Great Source Education Group, c2001). Copies of both titles are on reserve in the library. Hint: Writer's Inc. has been adopted as P.A.'s style manual for research papers. Handouts with sample citations are also available in the library.
For help in avoiding plagiarism go to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html This site really does a great job explaining it to you!
These web sites provide excellent information (and examples) on how to do source notes and bibliographies:
| Citation Machine | http://citationmachine.net |
| MLA Citation Style from Long Island University | http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm |
| MLA style for WWW sources (Once there, click on "MLA Style" and then FAQ) | http://www.mla.org |
| A+ Research & Writing for High School and
College Students (IPL) |
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/linkciting.htm
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| OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) | http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ |
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