Research: Writing/Citation Guidelines/Plagiarism.
- Annotated bibliographies.
- What is an annotated bibliography? Cornell University Library’s guide to writing and formatting an annotated bibliography.
- Citation Guidelines.
- APA Electronic Sources Citation Guide.
- Examples of web/database based citations/references organized by source.
- Note: for EBSCO/JSTOR/Lexis-Nexus and other databases accessed through Roosevelt University Library follow this APA suggested general format.
- Chicago Manual of Style website.
- Roosevelt University.
- University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign “Writers Workshop” overview of:
- Duke University Library.
- APA Electronic Sources Citation Guide.
- Plagiarism.
- Roosevelt University. [plagiarism defined w/extensive index of other links re: plagiarism at end of page]
- Detection Software.
- WCopyfind 3.0.
- Directions for how to install and use WCopyfind 3.0
- Read instructions on website.
- Download WCopyfind 3.0 on to your computer (perhaps easiest to save to desktop).
- Set up folder in file directory on your computer specifically for saving your paper and documents you are comparing your paper to.
- Save your paper into folder.
- Find websites that you’ve used, save pages from website that you have used into folder.
- Find .pdf files that you’ve used, copy text from .pdf files into .txt or word processing document. Save these documents into folder.
- Activate WCopyfind 3.0 by clicking on icon.
- Locate and load documents into either “Old Document Files” or New Document Files” windows.
- Adjust reporting/detection parameters.
- Click Run button on WCopyfind 3.0 window.
- Open report results by clicking on reports.
- Red text – possible plagiarism.
- Green text – Words inserted into possible plagiarized text.
- Normal text – no problem indicated.
Dr. Christian W. Erickson, Ph.D. 