Plagiarism: A Tutorial

Terms 2 Example

When you give credit for a term and use quotation marks around it the first time you use it, you are making it clear you are using a term you did not create. There are many different styles of giving credit within your text. Check with your professor for the form you should follow in your assignment.

In this essay, I will use the "cult of True Womanhood" as a lens through which I will examine the life of poet Emily Dickinson (Welter 151).

You need to list the work, as below, in the bibliography or reference list. Check with your professor for the bibliographic style you should follow in your assignment.

Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860." American Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, 1966, pp. 51-174. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/2711179.

You do not give credit for terms which are widely used in the field or discipline in which you are writing. No credit, for example, has to be given for the term "inertia" in an assignment in the field of physics:

The effects of inertia could be clearly seen in the last experiment.