Citation and Documentation (Topic for Presentation)

• Students face severe consequences when they plagarise even if it was not intentional .
• To be safe we should always recheck our sources and in-text citations.
• When we use other author's work it is very important to cite the source.
• We should give credit to the person whose work we are using in order to prevent ourselves from plagarising.
• There are various styles of documentation/citation. Popular ones are  MLA, APA, chicago and many more.
• MLA citaion format for the Work Cited page:

 Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
        Medium of  Publication.

• In-text Citation format: " Sentence from other author" (Last Name of the author, page number).

For in depth details about documentation the Online Writing Lab of Purdue is very helpful. The link to the website is:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/