My experience with the Acadia university tutorial on plagiarism

Any tutorial that starts with snoring is fine with me! ZZZzzzzz. Okay, now to wake up and opinionate… The tutorial brought up a good point that I wish I had seen before I made the mistake. To explain, I have definitely lost the source of something I wanted to use in a paper. I learned the hard way that I should always immediately document my sources just in case. This is especially true when you are doing a lot of research and not exactly sure what direction your project or paper is headed in. I have been using Diigo.com to document online sources since this course had us think about such things, and I am loving it! Not only are my online sources documented, but so is my date of access. It is too easy to go back and check a site and realize that it is not exactly as it was when you initially accessed it. Getting those dates of access documented are just as important as the source itself. Also, I did not know that I have my own personal librarian. Is that true for GSU too?

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