To be sure you acknowledge sources fairly and do not plagiarize, review the
following checklist both before beginning to write your paper and again
after you have completed your first draft:

1. What type of source are you using: your own independent material,
common knowledge, or someone else's independent material? You must
acknowledge someone else’s material.

2. If you are quoting someone else's material, is the quotation exact?  Have
you inserted quotation marks around quotations run into the text?   Are graphs,
statistics, and other borrowed data identical to the  source? Have you shown
omissions with ellipsis marks [. . .] and additions  [interpolations] with brackets?

3. If you are paraphrasing or summarizing someone else's material, have you
used your own words and sentence structures? Does your paraphrase or summary
employ quotation marks when you resort to the  author's exact language?  Have you
represented the author's meaning without distortion?

4. Is each use of someone else's material acknowledged in your text?
Are all your source citations complete and accurate?

5. Does your list of works cited include all the sources you have drawn
from in writing your paper?
 
 

 *H. Ramsey Fowler, et al. The little, Brown  Handbook, 8th ed.

          Boston: Little, Brown,  2001: 687.

See also the MLA Handbook for more complete information.

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