Research & Citation Review

What is citation? [Check 3 boxes]

• It is to inform others where I get my information.

• It is to copy information that belongs to others.

• It is to give credit to the original author.

• It is a way being honest about my work.

Answer explanation

A "citation" is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source.

Citing information is important because [Choose 3 statements[

• it is helpful to others who want to find more references.

• my ideas may be more interesting or accurate and this will help my work stand out from other possible bad work.

• it shows how much research I have done.

• it weakens my work by citing other sources.

A source/material can be trusted when I can find the following [Choose the correct statement]

• author's name, publisher's name, published date, title of the work, references

• author's name, published date, title of the work, references

• author's name, publisher's name, published date

Wikipedia cannot be used as a main source of information because

Social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter can be considered as a source of published work.

Suggest one way of determining that the work can be cited.

Michael Jackson is known as the King of Pop.

Instructions

1) Cite one reliable source to support this claim.

2) Paste the link of the source in the answer box.