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University of Phoenix Plagiarism Tutorial Assignment

1) Have this document open on your computer desktop. Go to your student web site. From your student Materials page, click on the link to the Center for Writing Excellence> click on Grammar and Writing Guides > click on Plagiarism Tutorial. Follow and study all pages under and in the tutorial by clicking on each topic link listed.

2) After reading all sections of the plagiarism tutorial, answer the questions below.

3) Next, go back to the Tutorial and take the “Avoiding Plagiarism Mastery Test”, found on the bottom of the initial ‘Overview’ page.

4) After taking the test you will end up on your ‘Test results’ page, click on the ‘Copy to Clipboard’ button, and immediately come to this document, put your cursor in the area (below) under “Paste your Avoiding Plagiarism Mastery Test score results below:”, and click on the “paste” icon.

Type your answers below each question (do not copy & paste):

What does an in-text citation look like? Where do you put it?

An in-text citation shows proof that the author has received information from another source. In-text citations can be found within the author’s work so that the reader can find the full details of the source on the reference page.

What does a reference look like? Where do you put it?

A reference page is listed at the end of an essay; it is double spaced with a title showing that is a reference page. The references are listed on this page in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. The reference page is found on a separate page at the very end of an essay.

What are the four reasons you should document your sources?

Four reasons that you should document your sources are: providing the author credit for their idea, showing the reader that the information provided in the essay are not from your own ideas, allows the reader to find the information from the original source, and allows the author to avoid from plagiarism in their paper....