The information safari
The detective's toolkit
The art of borrowing
Giving credit where it's due
007skaty To verify sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, scholars tracked unbroken narrator chains and graded their honesty in biographical dictionaries.
What was the primary purpose of the 'isnad' system developed by early Islamic scholars?
Copyright origin: The Statute of Anne, enacted in Great Britain in 1710, was the world's first government-enforced copyright law, protecting authors instead of publishers.
007skaty Writers battle plagiarism today by properly citing every outside source they use.
Why is it still considered plagiarism if you paraphrase an idea perfectly but do not include a citation?
A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work. Liz Delf explains that writers must use a citation when projecting 25 million centenarians by 2100.
007skaty Sort citation ingredients into the correct bowls to master formatting your outside sources.
Why does APA citation style place the publication year right next to the author's name?
Which citation style is most commonly used in English and humanities classes, focusing on page numbers?
007skaty The Public Domain Playground
We can play with Steamboat Willie today! (Oh yeah!) / The public domain lets us remix away! (Remix away!)
If you copy a paragraph from a public domain book like Pride and Prejudice for a school essay, do you still need to cite it?