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Although I feel like I have blogged about this, for me to continue to think and talk about it helps the most.  Citations are something I really struggle with and love that we are continuing to learn about them every week.  This week is we focused on what and where citations could be found.  Places like indexes, books, journals, and websites are great places to find useful information.  So long as the website is not wikipedia - although a great place to BEGIN research and get a general idea of the topic - it is not reliable and not acceptable.  Things to look for and what most citations contain are the author, title, place of publication, publisher, and the date of the publication - I like to think of them as the "key parts" of the citation.
I was also again reminded of the importance of plagiarism, and how to avoid it.  I must provide citations when summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting an article but do NOT need to provide citations when listing common knowledge.  What is common knowledge? good question and to be honest, i still don't know.  They said it was "information published in many places and known by many people".  That to me is still arguable.  It is completely off of the situation I feel as well as the audience.  People have such different interests that something I many know so much about and feel is "common knowledge," is unknown by someone else and I would therefore not have cited the correct source and been accused of plagiarism.   There is a fine line between the 2, and I have yet to learn it.

- miner moments.