Avoiding plagiarism



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Avoiding plagiarism: Because teachers now have the electronic hardware at their fingertips to create electronic tasks, it becomes each teacher's role, not just the role of the Library Teacher, to equip students with the tools and training to avoid plagiarism.


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To cite or to attribute...

That is the question! 
There are two KEY tools to prevent plagiarism: MLA citations and Creative Commons attributions.

MLA Citations
Do you remember when you took college or graduate courses and the instructor demanded you cite your sources for papers and projects? They probably told you the work wouldn't count if not properly cited. This is also true for every idea, image, or piece of information your students harvest from books or the Internet for your subject-area tasks. In blunt words: If it's not cited, it's stolen.


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Now is the time to begin to make students aware of the critical importance of citing sources for ideas, images, and information. Official citing of sources is accomplished through a citation style. Your latest experience with citations in college or grad school may have been with Turabian or Chicago style. Those styles are not generally used in K-14 classrooms throughout the United States. In these grades, the accepted style is from the Modern Language Association, more familiarly called MLA style. 

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