HOW TO PROPERLY CITE FROM YOUR SOURCES

Your paper will be done in  MLA (parenthetical) style.  This means that when you directly quote or indirectly quote (paraphrase), you MUST give credit to the source, according to the following directions. BELOW IS THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE:

--place immediately after the presented idea (and quotation mark if there is one) BUT before the punctuation at the end of the sentence,

--open the parentheses,

--put the first word that appears in your bibliography/works cited,

a space and

--close the parentheses

--add a period.

Example 1, direct quotation:

Similarly, a veteran Washington Post newspaper report decided not to do her own research for an article about insect infestations

in Florida.  Instead, she copied stories from other newspapers, “…including direct quotations from people she had not interviewed” (Henry 59).

Example 2, indirect quote or paraphrase:

While some novelists may be able to revive their careers by writing another best-selling novel, plagiarism often ends careers.  For example,

in 1991 a university dean plagiarized his commencement address for graduating journalism students, and the subsequent public outcry forced

him to resign (Plagiarism 247).

Long quotes are indented 1” from left margin, are double spaced, and do NOT have quotation marks. Also the punctuation is put BEFORE the citation:

Plagiarism has shocked the experts for years.  Shaw, a psychologist specializing in the area of kleptomania, states:

People assume that the plagiarist needs a motive.  Paradoxically, plagiarists are often talented

writers who lack any real need to plagiarize, yet do so, sometimes even when they have nothing

to gain by their theft. Even more shocking is the fact that many want to be caught in the act.  (Johnson 73)