Citing Your Sources
Part of being a responsible, professional researcher is citing your sources
-- but why?
The first two parts of this tutorial from Arizona State University give great
information on why you should cite, when you should cite, which disciplines
use APA, MLA and Chicago and how these citation styles differ.
There's a menu in the upper right that allows you to select the part of the
tutorial you want to view and a transcript to the left of the screen, so you can
read the information or listen to it, as you prefer.
Citing Your Sources
from Arizona State University
The third and fourth sections describe citation help available at Arizona State.
Instead of completing these sections, go to Stevenson University's
Citing Sources guide
which will let you see the resources we have for you here.
Most students know that they shouldn't plagiarize anything, but might have questions about how to avoid it. This video from PALNI describes three ways of using information ethically; summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting
Of course, even if you summarize, paraphrase or quote you still need to give credit with a proper citation, if you want to avoid plagiarism.