Remember, the reason that you must cite your sources is because you used someone else's ideas or information or pictures to help complete YOUR work and because that information is not your ORIGINAL work, you must give credit to or acknowledge the person who did create those original ideas.
Failure to cite sources properly is automatically plagiarism, and therefore it is better to cite something, even if you are not sure it is necessary or correctly done. Remember, whether you failed to cite a source accidentally or on purpose, it looks the same to the person grading the paper.
Keep in mind, ultimately you want your teacher to be able to use the information in your bibliography to get to the EXACT website page, book chapter, etc., that you used in your work so be sure your bibliography is correct!
Citing your sources has NEVER been easier! I recommend that you use one of the following tools:
1. The free bibliography creator at www.EasyBib.com
2. Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 have a References tab where you can record your sources and then create a bibliography.
Need more information? Read EmergingEdTech article on free citation resources
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