In 2014, I published an infographic on using images legally and ethically. While that graphic has been widely shared and used and has been a great tool for students, educators, and professionals, it’s a little harder to follow than it probably needs to be. My experience has taught me that it’s easiest to learn
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If you’re writing any kind of paper—essay, report, legal document, proposal, etc.—and you reference ideas that are not original to you, you need to be citing your sources. Citing sources gives credit to the people who developed original ideas and research. Citing sources will keep you from plagiarizing and help
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If there’s ever been a Top 10 List of Most Boring Documents, a course syllabus would most ceratinly be on it. It’s unfortunate, too, because syllabi have a unique ability–as much as a written document can, I suppose–to get students excited about course content. There are a lot of things
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Digital images are a standard part of our everyday lives. You can’t scroll though Twitter without seeing a GIF, Instagram is made for sharing JPEGs, and your email is swamped with JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs. These images and file types are a part of our daily lives. In our heavily
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We have yet another wonderful translation of our Plagiarism infographic, this time in Spanish. We are excited to see our infographics being used in so many places around the world to help students, teachers, and business writers. Thank you to Ignacio Oyarzún and Charlotte Pichuante Escaida from Bibliotecas UC for the translation.
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We all think about it at some point in our lives: how will I die? Will I be old? Sick? Will I die in an accident? We hear a lot of statistics and know a lot stories and people who died from cancer and most of us know somebody, even
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Which school produces the most and highest-paid NBA players? High school, bar none. In fact, no college or university even comes close in comparison to producing so many high-profile (and expensive) players. After all, many of the NBA bigwigs (with the likes of Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Amare Stoudamire, and
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