Before you start making your project in Pages, we need to go over a few things. We are going to be making our projects in this class the right way. This means we're going to do things following the academic and legal standards. In this project, we will be using:
- Citations & Bibliography
- Free Stock-Photography
- and/or Public Domain Imagery
Citations & Works Cited Page
Your work, whether facts or pictures for the itinerary or brochure, must have citations. Academic papers and projects should give credit too all information. To do otherwise is plagiarism.
Plagiarism is defined as passing off someone else's ideas or work as your own. If you were to read 'The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.', and changed it to 'The whale shark is the biggest fish in the ocean.', it's still plagiarism. If you were to change it to 'In all of the ocean, the whale shark is the biggest fish' it's still plagiarism. Why? Because you are still taking the main idea of the sentence. Learn more at Plagiarism.org.
Failure to avoid plagiarizing is an act of Academic Dishonesty as well as a Copyright Violation. By district policy, this is a level II/III offense. District policy dictates consequences for level II/III offenses include detention, ISS, parent notification, behavioral contract, and more. They also often include a meeting with administration and a zero for the assignment. In college, they can result in the student being kicked out, a permanent stain on their record, and absolutely no refund of any sort. Professionally, it can result in the loss of your job, and a difficult future with a lack of credibility.
In addition to providing citations, the best way to avoid plagiarism is to first read a paragraph. Without look at the paragraph, write down the main ideas in your own words (don't forget to write down the source/citation with these facts). After that, you can then check it for accuracy as well as make sure it doesn't sound to similar to what they wrote. Keep these facts that you've recorded, and once you're ready to write your project, read a section of your notes and (once again) put them into your own words into the project. After rewriting them twice into your own words, they should suffice. Don't forget to include your citations in the project.
The most commonly used forms of citation style are MLA and APA. Cultural studies fall under MLA format, as this is an assignment with cultural information MLA is the format we will be using. EasyBib and NoodleTools are both websites you can use to write your Bibliography for you.
Look at the examples below if you find the next few sentences confusing. Instead of in-text citations, but won't keep your projects looking as nice as they could. Most people are familiar with footnotes, where a number next your fact corresponds with notes at the 'footer' (or bottom) of the page. End notes are similar, but the number instead corresponds to notes at the end of the document. Scroll down to the forth example to see how I would like you to cite your sources.
Examples:
In-text citation + Work Cited
Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
(in the Bibliography)
Wordsworth. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›.
Footnote
For years, scholars have failed to address this point8—a fact that suggests their cowardice more than their carelessness.
(notes at the bottom of the page)
8. See Blackmur, especially chapters three and four, for an insightful analysis of this trend.
Endnote
For years, scholars have failed to address this point8—a fact that suggests their cowardice more than their carelessness.
(notes at the very end of the document)
8. See Blackmur, especially chapters three and four, for an insightful analysis of this trend.
(This would still require a bibliography at the end)
Mr. Double-U's Modified Endnote/Works Cited Page For years, scholars have failed to address this point8—a fact that suggests their cowardice more than their carelessness.
(notes at the very end of the document)
8. Blackmur. The Academic Argument. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 Sept. 2009. Web. 4 Sept. 2010. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›.
You may use a lighter font color (but still legible) in your document to reduce how distracting it may be. The final example it what you will be using to contain all the required information, without having the standard in-text citations mar what should be very aesthetically pleasing works.
In Your Blog
1- What is plagiarism? Any good reasons to avoid it?
2- What citation format are we using for this project?
3- Create a citation for your 'Works Cited' page of two websites you might use on your project.
example:
Blackmur. The Academic Argument. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 Sept. 2009. Web. 4 Sept. 2010. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›.
Stock Photography
What is stock photography? Stock photography is a supply of photos collected to use instead of hiring a photographer. To use most stock photography commercially requires paying licensing fees. However, alot of services provide plenty to be used without cost for non-commercial purposes.
While it's nice to give credit to your sources for using photographs online, it still isn't proper without permission. In addition, pulling images randomly from online could result in using a copyrighted image. If that is the case, a company could contact their lawyers. Some companies are more likely to do this than others, other caompanies just like to make an example of someone every once in a while. In addition to the lack of professionalism, taking the chance isn't worth it.
A good number of stock image providers have photos in which they have already given the public permission to use them. Majority of these sites do require you to create an account in order to access any of the stock imagery, free-photos included.
FreeStockImages.net has a rather nice list of resources.
In Your Blog
1- What is stock photography?
2- Why can't we just use random images off google?
Public Domain
Items within the public domain are works that currently have no intellectual property rights within the country of your residence. Many things become public domain once the copyright expires and, for one reason or another, is not renewed. When searching for items in public domain, it is important to make sure they are within the Public Domain for the US, as the laws regarding it vary from country to country.
Images used in your projects (whether public domain or stock photography) also need to be listed on your works cited page, with a direct link to where they were pulled from.
example citation for the picture to the right
DeLourve, Katrina. Red Panda. Digital image. Stock.xchng. © 2001-2009 HAAP Media Ltd, a Subsidiary of Getty Images, 22 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Sept. 2010.
Citation created via Easybib
Public Domain Photography Websites:
US History Images
American Memory from the Library of Congress
I know this process isn't fun. I spent my fair share of having to go through it as well. This isn't middle school anymore. This is how its really done.
On the plus side, at least you have useful online apps like easybib in which you can just plug in the information and have it do the work. We didn't have that during my time in high school or first few years of college.
In Your Blog
1- What does it mean for an image to be Public Domain?
2- Post a picture you found off a stock photography or public domain site on your blog.
3- Write the citation for this photo.
For the remainder of the period,
a- watch this video on pages,
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