Summary

Video 13.2

The rationale for citing carefully is to:

• Show you have read widely and creatively as per the expectations of the discipline
• Demonstrate you’ve learned from the work of people who studied the topic before you
• Give credit to your sources of information (definitions, other scholars’ concepts, statistics) and avoid plagiarism
• Provide the details of your research path for others to follow so that they can find the materials and read/learn/think for themselves
• Actively participate in the scholarly conversation. Go you!