Literature Reviews and Annotated Bibliographies

  • Planning Your Review
  • Searching the Literature
  • Write the Review
  • What is an Annotated Bibliography?
  • How to Evaluate Sources?

Purpose of Citations, When and What to Cite?

Citation tools, academic integrity and plagarism.

  • Additional Resources

There are four main reasons:

  • To acknowledge the author(s) of the work that you used to wirte your paper.
  • To provide context to your research and demonstrate that your paper is well-researched.
  • To allow readers to find the original source and learn more about some aspects you mentioned briefly in the document.
  • To enable further research by letting others discover what has already been explored and written about on a topic.

What and When to Cite?

You should always cite other people's words, ideas, and other intellectual property that you use in your papers or that influence your ideas. This includes but isn't limited to books, journal articles, web pages, reports, data, statistics, speeches, lectures, personal interviews, etc. You should cite whenever you:

  • use a direct quote
  • use facts or statistics that are relatively less known or relate directly to your argument.
  • ASU Library Citation Styles LibGuide This LibGuide discusses what constitutes plagiarism, different citation styles with examples, a citation management software program free to ASU students, faculty and staff, and identifies tutorials & other resources to assist in citing sources.
  • Purdue OWL: Research and Citation Resources Excellent site that explain in detail how, when and why to use this citation style for both print and online sources.

Academic integrity, student cheating, and plagiarism are of utmost importance to university faculty, administrators, writing center and tutoring staff, librarians, and academic advisors. The short, straightforward definitions of academic integrity and plagiarism are meant to assist persons interested in understanding more about these issues.

When using or quoting word for word the words of another person it must be acknowledged.  Summarizing or paraphrasing the words or ideas of another without giving that person credit is also plagiarism.

  • ASU Graduate College Academic Integrity Site
  • A Brief Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism From UT-Austin, "a springboard to learn essential rules for proper attribution, review various forms of plagiarism, and gain an overview about style guides.
  • Avoiding Plagiarism - Perdue OWL Plagiarism occurs when "a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source." Don't be one of those people! Learn how to avoid making that mistake in your paper! more... less... Quote taken from The Owl at Purdue, Avoiding Plagiarism, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/ Last Revised, September 30th, 2008. Retrieved, December 30th, 2008.
  • Education World ® - Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism Another simple guide with tips on avoiding plagiarism
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