Writing Analytically, 6th Edition - Rosenwasser, David & Stephen, Jill [192]
Business: EDGAR www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml (company annual reports), Hoover’s Online www.hoovers.com/free (company reports)
Chemistry: Chemdex.org www.chemdex.org (chemical compounds), World of Chemistry scienceworld.wolfram.com/chemistry (encyclopedia)
Communication: Television News Archive: Vanderbilt University tvnews.vanderbilt.edu (index to television news)
Computer Science: arXiv.org arxiv.org/ non-peer-reviewed but moderated scholarly e-print submissions), CompInfo www.compinfo-center.com (magazines and downloads)
Economics: Intute: Economics www.intute.ac.uk/economics/ (reviewed websites associated with economics)
Education: Educator’s Reference Desk eduref.org (resource guides and lesson plans)
Film Studies: Film Studies Resources www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/index.html (index to reviews and criticism)
Geography/Geology: GeoSource www.library.uu.nl/geosource (gateway to reviewed web resources)
History: American Memory memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html (primary documents)
Language, Literature: Online Literary Criticism Collection www.ipl.org/div/litcrit (biography and criticism)
Law: FindLaw www.findlaw.com (free legal information)
Mathematics: arXiv.org arxiv.org/ (non-peer-reviewed but moderated scholarly e-print submissions), Mathworld mathworld.wolfram.com (encyclopedia),
Medicine: BioMed Central www.biomedcentral.com (journals)
Music: Online Resources for Music Scholars hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/ music/resources/index.html (gateway to music resources on the web)
Philosophy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu
Physics: arXiv.org arxiv.org/ (non-peer-reviewed but moderated scholarly e-print submissions), World of Physics http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics
Political Science: Intute: Politics www.intute.ac.uk/politics/ (web resources), THOMAS http://thomas.loc.gov (U.S. government documents)
Psychology: Intute: Psychology www.intute.ac.uk/psychology/ (web resources)
Religion: Religion Online http://www.religion-online.org/ (articles and book chapters), Hartford Institute forReligion Research www.hartfordinstitute.org (surveys and statistics)
Sociology: Intute: Sociology www.intute.ac.uk/sociology (web resources)
Step 4: search the web using these selective search engines:
Intute www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is arguably the most academically oriented of all the search engines. The creators of Intute have carefully screened and summarized websites for inclusion.
ipl2 www.ipl.org/
ipl2 contains a lower percentage of academic websites than Intute.
B. Plagiarism and The Logic of Citation
It is impossible to discuss the rationale for citing sources without reference to plagiarism, even though the primary reason for including citations is not to prove that you haven’t cheated. It’s essential that you give credit where it’s due as a courtesy to your readers. Along with educating readers about who has said what, citations enable them to find out more about a given position and to pursue other discussions on the subject. Nonetheless, plagiarism is an important issue: academic integrity matters. And because the stakes are very high if you are caught plagiarizing, we will now offer some guidelines on how to avoid it.
In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the number of plagiarism cases nationally. Many commentators blame the Internet, with its easily accessible, easy to cut-and-paste information, for increasing the likelihood of plagiarism. Others cite a lack of clarity about what plagiarism is and why it is a serious problem. So, let’s start by clarifying.
Most people have some idea of what plagiarism is. You already know that it’s against the rules to buy a paper from an Internet “paper mill” or to download others’ words verbatim and hand them in as your own thinking. And you probably know that even if you change a few words and rearrange the sentence structure, you still need to acknowledge