Talk:University of Evansville: inflite

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I like the "Citing Sources" part of this tutorial, especially the flow of ideas from Thoreau to Gandhi to King. I wish it would be expanded by showing how italics, punctuation and the like are part of the correct form. I have had a number of students who get the name, title, place of publication sequence, but don't realize the Last Name, First sequence, etc.

I found the plagarism section highly strict, and one that would frighten students needlessly. (I am thinking of the example in which a passage by John Krakauer is compared to a student writing "when you are a kid, it is easy to think that what you want is what you deserve." I'm not so sure that Krakauer is the first to have that concept of childhood wants- isn't it almost a truism?

Because the citation section is paired with the plagarism section, I don't think I would refer students to this link.

Tony Greiner Portland (Oregon) Community College