Table of Contents
Foreword v
How to Use this Book vii
Part 1 What Sources Are, and Where to Find Them
What are sources? 1
How do I know if this source is reliable? 2
Mediated vs. unmediated content 2
Where and how do I find sources? 10
Using the library 11
Finding online resources 13
Part 2 Taking Notes
What sorts of notes should I take? 19
How do I keep track of who said what? 21
What's the difference between paraphrasing and quoting? 22
Part 3 Documentation
What is documentation? 27
What types of documentation can I use? 28
Footnotes and endnotes 28
In-text citations 31
Why are there so many styles? 32
Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, Harvard Style, MLA, and APA 32
How do I cite something that's not a book? 35
Articles 35
Web pages and other digital resources 36
Recordings 36
Social media citations 36
How do I make a Works Cited page? 37
Part 4 How to Avoid Stealing
Why do we document our sources? 45
What is plagiarism? 46
Plagiarizing words 46
Plagiarizing ideas 47
Plagiarizing images 50
What is common knowledge? 51
What are the real-world consequences of plagiarism? 55
What's the deal with copyright? 57
Part 5 Bringing It All Together
How do I use my notes to outline a first draft? 61
When do I start to write? 66
How do I incorporate quotations into my own sentences? 68
Indirect quotations 69
Direct quotations 69
Attribution tags 72
Block quotes 76