ROAD ETIQUETTE

Are you writing a paper?

If you have done research on your topic first, you may want to use other people's ideas or words.

You may do so, as long as you indicate exactly what you have quoted or paraphrased, and provide citations within the text of your paper, as well as in a bibliography, unless it is "common knowledge."

When you have finished this section, you should know:

• what "plagiarism" is
• why you need to avoid plagiarism
• what "common knowledge" is
• how to avoid plagiarism
• why you need to cite
• how to cite the research materials you use
• how to arrange the citations

To start this section, click on one of the links above, or choose from the pulldown menu of "Road Etiquette."

Or, try "Bruin Success With Less Stress" <http://www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/> for a different way to learn about documentation and avoiding plagiarism.

Need to type your paper and add some graphics? Check the software, laptops and desktop computers, as well as scanners, in the CLICC Lab (Powell Library), all free for UCLA students to use.

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