Workshops on Ethical Use of Sources
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The Writing Center offers a two-workshop sequence on Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing: How to Avoid Plagiarizing and Documenting Sources: In-text Citations, Notes, and Bibliographies at several intervals throughout the semester.
In the first workshop, on Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing: How to Avoid Plagiarizing, the workshop leader will offer guidelines for integration of information and ideas from sources into one’s own writing. Examples of acceptable use and of unacceptable use will be presented for illustration and discussion. Workshop participants will be invited to paraphrase and/or summarize content from a sample source document, followed by comparison of the paraphrases and/or summaries and additional discussion.
In the second workshop, on Documenting Sources: In-text Citations, Notes, and Bibliographies, the workshop leader will offer guidelines for MLA [Modern Language Association] and APA [American Psychological Association] citation and bibliographical styles. (If instruction in CMS [Chicago Manual of Style], CBE [Council of Biology Editors], or other format is desired, please contact the Director of the Writing Center.) Workshop participants will be invited to practice writing in-text citations and bibliographic entries, applying these guidelines. A question-and-answer period will follow, to offer help for particular documentation problems arising out of participants’ own research projects.
Students taking the workshop to fulfill a course requirement will be asked to write a short paper, using sources made available by the workshop leader, to demonstrate their understanding of acceptable use of sources and documentation techniques.
Each workshop lasts approximately one hour, but participants are welcome to stay longer in the Writing Center and work on a writing project with a Writing Center staff member.
Handouts:
Workshops will be held in the Writing Center, Bowman 310. Please preregister to attend by signing up in Bowman 310 or contacting Dr. Trupe.
Updated by Dr. Trupe May 6, 2002