General Citation Help
2. Miramar Library Home Page: Scroll down to see "Library Research: Tools & Assistance."
2. Citation Help A: Click on the tab titled "Citation Guides" and select from the choices there.
More Specific Citation and Formatting Links
Citation Tools
This is excellent (and free) software that helps you collect, cite, and share research. Zotero is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and was initially funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The librarians at Miramar have created a number of different research guides from my Oral Communication classes over the years. Feel free to browse through those they've created for me and other faculty via the above link.
Note: the assignment descriptions on these guides are outdated.
Plagiarism:
Student Examples:
Citation Example 1: This author makes a good effort to cite properly. However, each of the highlighted sections (#3, 6, and 7) should all be inside quotation marks and include a reference to a page number immediately after each quotation.
Citation Example 2: This author cites this paraphrased content from their source perfectly. Because they are restating what the original wrote using their own words, they don't need to use quotation marks. Notice that the citation only includes the author and year--a page number is not required when paraphrasing or summarizing the work of others.
Safe Assign Example: This is what students papers look like after they've been reviewed by Turnitin.com or SafeAssign (with small differences). Highlighted areas indicate phrases that match phrases from other sources, such as web sites, articles, other student's papers, etc.
A Teachable Moment: the following are two different video clips showing plagiarism in Melania Trump's address to the Republican National Convention in 2016.
This link is to an article discussing how one professor uses this as an example to teach her students how to avoid plagiarism in their own work:
Can plagiarism be accidental? Highly unlikely! Here's an argument that shows the probability of someone accidentally using the same phrase as someone else.
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