What is Citation?

[beam me up scottie]

http://turnitin.com/research_site/e_citation.html">What is citation?

What is citation?

A "citation" is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again, including:

* information about the author

* the title of the work

* the name and location of the company that published your copy of the source

* the date your copy was published

* the page numbers of the material you are borrowing



Why should I cite sources?

Giving credit to the original author by citing sources is the only way to use other people's work without plagiarizing. But there are a number of other reasons to cite sources:

* Citations are extremely helpful to anyone who wants to find out more about your ideas and where they came from.

* Not all sources are good or right -- your own ideas may often be more accurate or interesting than those of your sources. Proper citation will keep you from taking the rap for someone else's bad ideas.

* Citing sources shows the amount of research you've done.

* Citing sources strengthens your work by lending outside support to your ideas.


When do I need to cite?

Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you need to acknowledge their source. The following situations almost always require citation:

* Whenever you use quotes

* Whenever you paraphrase

* Whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed

* Whenever you make specific reference to the work of another

* Whenever someone else's work has been critical in developing your own ideas.

http://turnitin.com/research_site/e_citation.html

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[salvorhardin]

2. Excellent

Also, DU provides for a very easy and handy tool for showing
that a poster is excerpting content from somewhere else. I
wish more people would use it.

[div class="excerpt"]Excerpted content goes
here...[/div]

[beam me up scottie]

3. I have that one saved in my Opera notes.

Makes it almost too easy. :)

[salvorhardin]

4. There's the BBCode extension for Firefox too

It'll allow you to have handy right click access to all of DU's common formatting tags, but it also allows you to define custom menu items for things like excerpts. Very handy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/128

And for someone who prefers Opera style notes, there's the Scrapbook extension for Firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427

Really, there's no excuse but laziness for properly citing on DU.

[beam me up scottie]

5. I always wondered how to use Firefox's Scrapbook.

I've got something new to play with...

[Warpy]

6. It's about time somebody told them.

All this howling that the sky is falling because they don't like the fact that there is a vaccine out there that can save the lives of women who sin by having sex really needs to be backed up with something besides hysteria.

[xchrom]

7. kick

[xchrom]

8. kick

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[beam me up scottie]

10. kick

[xchrom]

11. kick

[varkam]

12. Kick

[salvorhardin]

13. Boot

[Celebration]

14. Hmmm

I'll give this an extra kick too!! Why not!! When old threads like this are given a kick by several different posters, they call attention to the new posts below which absolutely MUST get down to the bottom of the page, because of the dangerous NEW information they contain.

[dropkickpa]

15. It's so OOOLLLLLD and wrinkly!!!

It's almost 24 hours old!!! Ban it ban it!!!

[Celebration]

16. nah, this definitely DESERVES

At least three kicks, a boot, a hmmm, a WRINKLY, and

I'm gonna call mine a NUDGE

all without adding anything substantive to the discussion. Here it is

NUDGE

[xchrom]

17. kick

[xchrom]

18. kick

[xchrom]

19. kick

[xchrom]

20. kick

[beam me up scottie]

21. kick for the logically impaired.

Posting a laundry list of uninformed assumptions elsewhere on the web and then citing them as your medical source doesn't count.