Selected Resources for Students and Faculty

How to Avoid Plagiarism     
Learning How to Evaluate Web Resources
Citing Information Found on the Internet
Free Citation Creation Websites
 

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Avoiding Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism - courtesy of the Writing Lab at Purdue University
Plagiarism - courtesy of the University of Delaware Writing Center
Plagiarism.org - "the online resource for people concerned with the growing problem of internet plagiarism. This site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how Turnitin and iThenticate are now being used by educators and content creators all over the world to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work"
Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism:  Documentation Guidelines - courtesy Duke University

Learning How to Evaluate Web Resources

Criteria for the Evaluation of Internet Information Resources - courtesy of Alistair Smith and the Victoria University of Wellington
Evaluating Web Sites offered by Katherine Holmes, Assistant Library Director, at Lesley College provides sound advice
Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web is courtesy of Genie Tyburski, a Research Librarian for Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Law Library Resource Exchange
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly:  or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - courtesy of Susan E. Beck at New Mexico State University
Weblogs - courtesy of Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia

Citing Information Found on the Internet

Style Manuals - APA, MLA, Turabian (Chicago), Council of Biology Editors (CBE) and more. Provided courtesy of Ithaca College.
Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources - courtesy Perdue University Online Writing Lab
Citing Electronic Sources -  Need help citing non-text WWW materials such as maps, photographs, drawings, sound recordings, and films? Try this site provided by the Library of Congress
MLA and APA Documentation - courtesy University of Delaware Writing Center

Free Citation Creation Website(s)

Citation Machine - "Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties"