MLA REFERENCING PODCAST SUMMARY

MLA Referencing Podcast Summary


1. What is plagiarism?
Copying or using someone else ideas

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?
Take careful and accurate notes as you research

3. What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?
MLA and APA

4. What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
Author’s name. Title of book article. Date. Pages. publisher, website address, magazine.

5. When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
Author’s name

6. What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?
The article title

7. What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?
Page numbers

8. What is the third item of information when referencing a website?
Title the website

9. What is last item of information when referencing a website?
Date visited

10. What comes before the URL in a database reference?
http://

11. Where is the bibliography?
At the end

12. What is in the bibliography?
References

13. When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?
Surname

14. How do you order items in the bibliography?
Alphabetical

15. Besides, quotations, where do you use an online citation?
Paraphrasing

16. What information goes in an online citation?
Name and Date

17. Name one citation machine that can help you?
Easybib.com

18. Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
Easybib.com

19. In Google type, ‘HCT plagiarism.’ Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.
Kick out of the college

Hurricanes

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2-Historic World Events. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

3-Science Matters: Adaptations, Wind, Space and Energy Sources, a Weekly Reader publication. Weekly Reader Corp.. Jan 1993. p16(2).