A good reference site for proper documentation for resources used in the writing work is
http://www.citationmachine.net
The choice of document type will be MLA and follow the instructions from that point.
PLAGIARISM**
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According to A Writer's Reference (4th ed) by Diana Hacker, * "Three difference acts are considered plagiarism: |
| (1) failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, |
| (2) failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks, and |
| (3) failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words" (83) |
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CHOOSING WHEN TO GIVE CREDIT |
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| Need to Document | No Need to Document |
| When you are using or referring
to somebody else's words or ideas from a magazine, book, newspaper,
song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter
advertisement or any other medium When you use information gained through interviewing another person When you copy the exact words or a "unique phrase" from somewhere When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, and pictures When you use ideas that others have given to you in conversation or over email |
When you are writing your own
experiences, you own observations, your own insights, your own thoughts,
your own conclusions about a subject When you are using "common knowledge" - folklore, common sense observations,, shared information within your field of study or cultural group When you are compiling generally accepted facts When you are writing up your own experimental results |
*Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference - 4th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999
**Taken from article Citation Protocol by California High School Speech Association Curriculum Committee, Fall 2003
http--www.cahssa.org-PDF-Curriculum-MLA_Citation_Protocol.pdf