SW-700: Writing for Publication

• Cite sources to distinguish your original work from others’ work.
• Provides some information to the reader about the evidence you choose.
• Makes it easier for your reader to find your sources if they choose to.
• Writing is intellectual property and you need to give credit to persons who first expressed an idea.
• Citations protect you from being accused of plagiarism.
• Error on the side of caution: one citation too many is better than too few.

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Plagiarism is the act of using words, ideas or any information from a source other than your own knowledge. 

• The rampant stealing of intellectual property has been fueled by the ease of cutting and pasting off the Internet
• Stealing or using the writing or ideas of others as your own
• Violation of copyright law
• Examples:
  • Outright copying
  • Paraphrasing w/o attribution
  • Misquoting
  • Mixing author’s words with one’s own
  • Failing to document webpage, interview, musical score, drawing or composition.