: Re: MLA: Avoiding Unintentional Plagiarism in Essay Writing I have a couple of questions about how to correctly cite sources in order to avoid unintentional plagiarism. First, let me give you an

To avoid unintentional plagiarism, the safe thing to do is always to give a citation. The form of the citation depends on the style sheet being used, whether it's a footnote or an endnote or the citation is included inline.

Putting a "Works Cited" at the end without having any citations in the text would be inaccurate. If there are no citations, then how can you have any "works cited"? You could have a "Bibliography" or "List of Works Referenced", but I think most academic institutions would see this as evasive. Okay, you're acknowledging that you consulted these sources, but you're not giving any clue what information came from these sources.

If your problem is that you are comparing two sources, and so sentence 1 may come from source A, sentences 2 and 3 from B, 4 and 5 from A, 6 from B, etc, I think an accepted alternative to having a hundred footnotes is to just put two at the end. That is, give all the information coming from the two sources, and then at the end have, e.g. footnotes "1,2", and then list the two sources.

If you are mixing information from these sources with your own comparisons, observations and conclusions, it gets more complicated. At that point you probably should have a mess of footnotes. Note you don't have to repeat all the information every time, you can use "ibid" and "op cit".

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: Re: MLA: Avoiding Unintentional Plagiarism in Essay Writing I have a couple of questions about how to correctly cite sources in order to avoid unintentional plagiarism. First, let me give you an

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: Is there a term for a fiction piece that goes after the prologue but before the epilogue? I'm writing a long non-fiction text that describes a fictional setting. I came up with a fiction piece

: I've heard this as a classic guide for reporters. A news story should answer all these questions. I've never heard of someone drawing diagrams of it or building some big system out of it,

: When you send your work to a publisher or agent or anyone, it should be the best that you can do. Which would you rather read: A story that is the writer's absolute best effort, or a

: In general, I'd avoid naming a specific musician in a causal reference like, "When Sally got home, she sat on her bed and listened to X". (a) Popular musicians come and go pretty quickly,

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