Every time when I write something I always confuse about when and where I have to Cite. After reading “warning: when you must cite” from Yale college writing centre I noticed some of the rules about citation. These all rules explain when and where we need to cite. Some of The rules are very common for me, but some are really new. For example, rules no 8 explain about “When you collaborate with others in producing knowledge” we must cite. It simply means, when we work together and share our ideas we must credit for each one. Before, I only thought who was must involve and spent much time, this person only get the credit, but I was wrong. I also applied these rules many times in my physics lab. In my physic lab, we are 3 people in my group. Every experiment in the lab we have to make a group report. This report we include everybody names, even sometime I spent much time on calculation part than my friends. Now I noticed that why we include all three-person name on the report. At the second part of the handout, I clicked MLA citation style. When we cite the source we have to follow the MLA format of a citation. This whole page was a lot of information about how to cite journal, newspaper article, magazine, books, website, blog, Internet videos, wikipedia, PowerPoint presentation. Another link that I read was "quoting and paraphrasing". After reading this page, I noticed when we use somebody ideas, even we write our own words we must provide the source. At the last link, I noticed how to introduce the author name in the essay. After reading this link, I found when we include author name we have to write only author last name, writing the author first name Is informal in academic writing.
