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The Importance of Citing References

What's All the Hype?

Since the advent of the Internet, the information highway phenomenon has given us access to virtually anything that has ever been written or expressed since the beginning of time. There is so much information that is now available to us that it is no wonder that our students are having a field day citing from sources that otherwise would not be available or easily tracked. The cut and paste craze has hit us like a storm and has entered into our classrooms more and more in assignments requiring expression of thoughts that students claim are their own.

We have found that many people who are new to the Internet do not know how to cite references that are found on the World Wide Web, specifically, "electronic references." The purpose of this tutorial is to explain the importance of citing references appropriately and correctly and how to avoid "on-line plagiarism."

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