Plagiarism

=Plagiarism= Creating research projects is an important part of History Class. To be an effective student, you must be able to: 1) gather information from multiple sources, 2) credit those sources, and then 3) write your own unique writing using the information your have gathered. The most common error in writing is taking another writer's work, copying it, and claiming it as ones own work. Here are some good resources for understanding plagiarism, paraphrasing, and citing your work.

What should be cited? [|http://www.libraries.psu.edu/libtutorials/scranton/tutorial_citing_2.html]

How to paraphrase effectively. []

How to quote and paraphrase sources from the University of Wisconsin. [|http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_plagiarism.html]

The Citation Machine. Allows easy creation of citations from various sources. []