The Writing Centers at TCC are located on every campus and can help you with your citation and formatting questions. Visit the Writing and Reading Support Canvas page to chat with a tutor, schedule an appointment, and learn more about their services and how they can help.
Refer to the TCC Student Handbook for information regarding academic integrity and prohibited behaviors, including a definition and examples of plagiarism (Student Code of Conduct, Article III, Item 31).
The TCC Libraries offer two tutorials about plagiarism and how to avoid it. The tutorials cover the same content but use different citation styles.
When completing research assignments for your courses, you conduct research and find different sources of information to help support your arguments or inform your readers. Citations allow you to credit the creator of these different sources of information. This research guide gives an overview of popular citation styles that your instructor may ask you to use to complete assignments.
Forgetting to document a source is considered plagiarism.
The best way to make sure you do not forget to cite the sources you use - cite while you write! Use these tips to cite sources in your paper :
When you decide to use a source, be sure to copy all the information required to develop a citation.
When you add a quote to your paper, document the page number (or the paragraph number if no page number is present) of where the quote was found.
Also, be careful when you cut and paste your quote from one of our database articles to your paper. It is all too easy, while writing, to cut and paste a quotation without also jotting down the citation information.
Check over details such as names, dates, capitalization, and punctuation.
Pay attention to what edition of the citation style is being used.
Remember, it is up to you to check over all your citations to make sure they are complete, accurate, and formatted correctly according to the citation style you are using.
Instructors may give requirements that vary from the examples given. Always refer to the instructions given by your instructor if working on an assignment.
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