Citing your Research

     As you do research on a report, you need to keep track of the resources that you use.  As you use the ideas that you find, you must give credit to the person or persons who found the facts or wrote the idea. This process is called “citing sources”.  There are many different kinds of sources for your research, such as books, encyclopedias, magazines, interviews, electronic resources, World Wide Web, video and even emails.  There are special guidelines for citing sources.  Your finished list of sources is called a bibliography.   Use the website below to find how to cite a source.  Follow the directions carefully.  In particular, you will be looking for how to cite a World Wide Web resource.

     http://nausetschools.org/research/worksgrade6.htm

     As you do your research, you must be careful to take notes, and not to copy and paste the text into your document.  Copying and pasting the text, and pretending that you wrote it is called plagiarism.  Check out this website to read more about plagiarism and ways that you can avoid it.

    Click here to view a sample bibliography.