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SOA 111 Honors: Cultural Area Research Project

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Here you will find all the tools you need to cite your sources properly, information on avoiding plagarism, and a link to RefWorks, which allows you to create a personalized bibliographic database.

Plagiarism FAQs

UMassD Academic Regulations and Procedures - Read this passage from your student handbook!

Avoiding Plagiarism - OWL Guide from Purdue - This emphasizes when to give credit to sources and offers safe practices to follow.

Citation Basics

The Carney Library has a copy of the MLA Handbook and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

Feel free to contact me or the Writing/Reading Center (x8710) for assistance on tricky citations!

The following are a few online guides that you may find helpful:

AAA (American Anthropological Association)

AAA Style Guide (2009)

The online version of the AAA Style Guide. 

MLA, 7th Edition (Modern Language Association)

MLA Guide 

This is our library's basic guide to citing in MLA format.

OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab (MLA) 

This is one of the most popular sites for finding help with MLA format. 

 FAQs about MLA 

This page is from the Modern Language Association to help you answer some questions about using MLA.

Librarian

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Claire T. Carney Library
Room 237
285 Old Westport Road
Dartmouth, MA 02747

spacheco@umassd.edu
508-999-8695