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Citing Sources in Theater

Theater resources typically use either MLA or Chicago Style. Use the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual of Style for examples of how to cite and how to structure a paper in these styles. You might want to also look at the Purdue Owl Site which also has citation examples for both of these styles. 

The library can guide you to citation management software and resources to help you properly cite your sources.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Union College Statement on Plagiarism (Office of the Dean of Studies)

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use:

- someone's idea, opinion, statement, or theory not your own;
- any facts, statistics, graphs, images—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge (including definitions);
- quotes from someone's spoken or written words; or
- paraphrase of  someone's spoken or written words.

Deliberate Plagiarism - 

- Copying or buying someone's paper
- Using a paper from another class
- Using information from a source without citing

You Quote It, You Note It! (Acadia University)

Getting Started with RefWorks

  

RefWorks is a web based citation manager tool that allow you to:

  • Import citation information from a variety of sources 
    (including article databases)
  • Collect, organize, and manage citations
  • Quickly generate bibliographies and in-text citations in many different formats

As part of the Union College community, RefWorks is available for free download. To set up an account and for more information check the Getting Started with RefWorks guide.