By the end of this lesson, participants will be able to

Define plagiarism and describe the importance of citing sources.
Explain the importance of copyright and the use of copyrighted material in academic research.
Identify and locate public domain and creative commons material for academic use.
Recognize and use common citation styles such as APA and MLA.
Identify the components of a citation and distinguish the pieces of information that each provides.

To meet the objectives of this lesson, you will complete the following activities and assessments:

Read approximately five Canvas pages of conceptual explanations.
Watch one instructional video.
Take a short quiz on the concepts introduced in this module.

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Attribution Information:

Some parts of the content in this module have been borrowed and modified from content created by libraries at Nevada State College and Indiana University. Some of the content is also borrowed from the open online textbook, The Information Literacy User’s Guide, affiliated with SUNY Albany.

It has been reused and modified with permission and is licensed under a Creative Commons license: