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JSK - Upper Primary Research Toolkit: Citing Sources + Creating a Bibliography

Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is using someone else's work, words or ideas without their permission.  

Plagiarism is using someone else's work, words or ideas and pretending they are yours.

Plagiarism is can be intentional or unintentional.

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Citing Your Sources

What are sources?

Sources are all the places you get information for your research.  For example:

  • books
  • websites
  • people

Citing sources means listing all the places you found information. 

It is important to cite your sources because it:

  • gives credit to the person who originally created the work
  • allows others to look up the source to learn more
  • helps you avoid plagiarism 

Your teachers will give you more information on how to cite your sources in a bibliography.

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Primary and Secondary Sources

What are primary and secondary sources?

Primary sources are original materials.  For example:

  • interviews with people
  • diary entries
  • photographs
  • artefacts (objects)

Secondary sources do not contain original material.  They describe primary sources.  For example:

  • textbooks
  • biographies
  • encyclopaedias