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Citing Your Sources and Paraphrasing

It is your responsibility to give proper credit to the sources you use for a research project. To do this you must use a specific style for citation. The majority of teachers at BHS require the MLA style guide format. See the information below to help you with citing your sources

Web Sites that Offer Support for Creating Works Cited Pages:

These sites offer support for creating MLA (and other citation formats) parenthetical citations and building Works Cited pages.

Easy Bib requires registering with an email address. Advantage: You can store citations.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab - Offers extensive information about citation and beyond.

Paraphrasing - Use the following parts of speech to help you put an author's words into your own:

Synonyms (Example: "The hardest language to learn is Mandarin." Change to: "Mandarin is one of the most difficult languages to master.")
Antonyms (Example: "Lincoln was very tall." Change to: Lincoln was not short.")
Phrasal verbs (Example: "Nuclear waste was discarded into a metal drum." Change to: "Nuclear waste was thrown away in a round, sealed, metal container.")
Phrases (Example: "Many people in Canada are bilingual." Change to: "Many Canadians speak two languages.")

Watch this online presentation about how to avoid plagiarism.

Citing Sources Within the Text of Your Project - This is when you insert a direct quote or paraphase from your source into the text of your writing. This is called "Parenthetical Citation". Click here to learn how to create a Parenthetical Citation.

Click here to view a short video about creating parenthetical citations.

Works Cited Page - This is the last page of your research project that lists all sources, in bibliographic format, that you used for your project. Here is the required Format and Example of a "Works Cited" Page.

Citing for a Multimedia Project - Multimedia citation will show you how to cite sources used in multimedia projects, as well as give you several sources for copyright-free images to use.