PSY 3402: Experimental and Research Methods

Here is where you make sure you're citing your sources - both in-text for paraphrasing and quoting, and in your reference page at the end. You should:

• use the Cite tool in PsycINFO to get a citation for any article you use,
• check your citation to make sure it is correct. Use the Pudue OWL's APA guide.

Note: Not citing your sources is plagiarism - a kind of theft.  For more information, look at the lower boxes.

Here's how to avoid plagiarism: 

Simply give credit where credit is due: present information other people's work in the body of your paper. Our citation guide will help you use:

Direct quote

• If you want to use a sentence or a passage exactly as it was written, you can include a direct quote, surrounded by quotation marks, and cite it by referencing the author and work of origin.

Summary/Paraphrase

• You can also write a summary in your own words of the ideas or (or paraphrase) the text you want to use. It helps to write the summary from your memory rather than looking directly at the passage.

Writing a summary and paraphrasing can be tricky as you must put the information in your own words, so to learn more about avoiding plagiarism, read the Plagiarism Guide.

How violators WILL be caught:

• The quality of writing is inconsistent.
• Writing includes specialized vocabulary that is inconsistent with the student's level of knowledge.
• The paper cites references that are not included in the reference list (works cited).
• Anti-plagiarism software is readily available to instructors to make catching plagiarism cases easy.
• The reference list is incomplete.