Intents and Purposes
![[animated gif of a young man giving the thumbs up after CNTRL+C and CNTRL+V' waying his essay]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/plagiarism-control.gif)
Remember that plagiarism is often unintentional because it's easy to copy and paste.
The best way to avoid it is read the entire document you're citing and taking notes on it in a separate document from your draft essay, then read other resources and take notes on them, all of it before starting your draft essay.
Plagiarism Gaffes We've Seen
Having a (Parenthetical Citation) in your essay text, but no Works Cited entry exists for it.
Having a Works Cited entry, but no sentence in your essay cites the work.
Writing an idea as though it is your own idea, but you are just replacing the verbs and adjectives in the sentence found in a source. (a sound-alike)
Citing the wrong source for a particular quote or idea.
Take Me Through the Stages
![[a screenshot of a government website about adoption]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/mlacitation-findresource.PNG)
The government website says 108,000 children waited for adoption in 2010. But 122,000 children waited for adoption in 2019. Relate that stat back to the strain on state DCFS in Kentucky somehow.
On the MyBib screen, it appears this way:
![[a screenshot of the government website in MLA citation format using MyBib]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/mlacitation-workscited.PNG)
In my Works Cited in my draft, it appears this way:
![[a sample two citation bibliography created for this project]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/mlacitation-workscited2.PNG)
Adoption trends in America are changing. Some state agencies are overwhelmed. In Kentucky, funding for DCHS has increased 2% since 1999 (Perkins 22), yet the number of U.S. children waiting for adoption increased 9.6% since 2010 (“Trends in Foster Care and Adoption”). What will state agencies do to combat a rising tide of children waiting for adoption?