Sources

Plagiarism is taking someone else's work, words, or ideas and using them as your own. It's illegal, and when you get to university, you can be expelled because of it. However, It's usually okay to use something someone else said in your assignment, as long as you attribute it to them properly. There are two main ways to document sources: footnotes and a bibliography. Find out which your teacher prefers.

Footnotes
Bibliography

Writing a Paper
Planning to Write
Outlines
Research
Taking Notes
Communication

Electronic Sources
Use the MLA style to cite all kinds of electronic sources, from CD-ROMS to e-mail.
How to Cite Internet Resources
lots of examples
References -- How to Cite and List
Clear and concise

Footnotes

Footnotes are included in the text. You place a tiny number after a quote or paragraph not belonging to you and cite the source at the bottom of the page. For example:

So in reality, "Concentration is the key to learning,"¹ and if you can't concentrate, you aren't learning effectively. That's the basic thing you need to know in order to succeed in life. I started out as a postage-stamp licker and ended up becoming one of the richest people in Poland.

¹Brown, John. Concentration in the Classroom (Toronto: Education Press, 1993), p. 368

Most word processors make footnotes easy (for example, in WordPerfect choose Insert | Footnote | Create).

Bibliography

A Bibliography is a list of sources you put at the end of your project. There are strict rules for writing a bibliography, and they differ for different sources.

Arrange your sources in alphabetical order by author's last name. If there is no author, go by the first word in the title.
Double-space.
Indent under the first line of each entry.

For a book with one author:

Brown, Jane. The Difficult Dog. New York: Allenwood Press, 1986.

For a book with two authors:

Brown, Jane, and John F. Doe. History of Earth. Toronto: Pennypinch Publishing, 1996.

For a book with three or more authors (such as a textbook):

Doe, John et al. The Future of Time. Vancouver: Samson, 1973.

For a magazine article:

Andersen, Tim. "The Legacy of Cabot." Maclean's, January 13, 1992. pp. 36-40.

For a newspaper article:

Brown, Janet. "Chretien Elected Prime Minister." The Mail Star, June 2, 1997. p. A1.

For an encyclopedia article:

Anderson, Timothy [if author's name is given]. "Domestic Chicken." The New Age Encyclopedia, 1997, ed.

For a video or film:

How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly. Videotape. National Film Board of Canada (Toronto), 1978. 15 min, 12 sec.

For a T.V. or radio program:

"Matters of the Mind." The Nature of Things. CBC, March 6, 1995.

For an interview:

TeWinkel, Tammy (User Interface Consultant). Personal interview. Halifax, February 7, 1997.

For an Internet Resource:

Author's last name, first name. [author's Internet address if available] "Title of work." In "Title of Complete work." Date, if available.

example:

Simms, John. http://www.book.com. "Poe" in "Great Authors". March 12 1997

Sources
Click here for a list of sources used in this project.
Glossary
All the words in bold are found in the Glossary. If you don't understand a word, click on the beside it, to go directly to the Glossary Page.
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