Citations -
This subject is essential and yet it plagues us all. Everyone seems to have a different system or style, the forms of resource material have changed dramatically (whoever thought they would have to learn how to cite an email messge!) and trying to commit this all to a proper webliography or bibliography creates a problem that many would prefer to avoid which creates the problem of plagiarism in the first place.
Reasonable solutions:
http://www.easybib.com/ Good and free. Choice of ALA or MLA, additional features if you sign up [students-$5 a year, School wide-$400 a year for 5,000 students] Other features:BibSearch-Using EasyBib's vast bibliography database, students can search via topic and pull up bibliographies matching their subject of interest. From their site:"Did you know that is mandatory to write “Works Cited” on the top of your bibliography. Did you also know that bibliographies are always alphabetized? Did you know that after writing the first line of a source, you must indent the following lines of that source? With EasyBib, you don’t have to worry about these seemingly trivial tasks. Just save as an RTF file or print from the Web, and let easybib.com automatically alphabetize and format for you!"
http://landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php Citation Machine - Part of David Warlick's site and it is a gem; easy to use, point and click, then process and you can then copy and paste into word processing.
http://www.noodletools.com/quickcite/ Quickly generate an MLA-style citation for a single source (simplified for younger students). You could simply do one at a time. Free.
http://www.noodletools.com/ NoodleBib 3.0 will generate, edit and publish MLA and APA style sheets, you can test it out, and it has the ability to save your work. An individual can subscribe to this service for $4 for 3 months - well worth it! I joined.

http://www.intac.com/~aroldi/biblio.html - how to compile a bibliography and webliography as a life long learning lesson, suggestions for each grade level, first through sixth.

http://library.fullerton.edu/cybercites.htm - general refernce with good help in determining how to cite information
http://www.mctc.commnet.edu/library/citingr.htm - general information of citing resources, examples and how to in .pdf format
http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/cite.shtml - links on how to cite government publications
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html - thorough and specific with examples
http://library.wcc.hawaii.edu/citation.html - help with the various styles
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/mla_style.shtml - citing sources






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Morris Union Jointure Commission
Plagiarism Workshop
May 2, 2005