If only it was that simple. In today's day and age, with information at our fingertips, the need for giving credit where credit is do has never been more important. Citing sources is not only a good idea to protect oneself from claims of plagiarism, but it is a moral obligation. To cite UNC'S "Why We Cite" (see what I did there), citations serve three major roles in scholarly work
These roles are:
1. They allow you to show how your argument is built upon the ideas of others
2. They allow you to indicate which ideas are taken from others, and from whom those ideas were taken
3. They allow the interested reader to follow your argument and confirm its logic by investigating the ideas on which the argument is built, or to further explore those ideas on their own.
See now if we did not cite UNC for the above stated information...that would be plagiarism and we would all have to go to honor court. Personally, I know we would like to stay away from honor court and in school so we will make sure to cite.
This will be done in APA format in all our blogs to ensure regulation among our posts. APA is used universally in the word of academics, therefore it can be easily recognized and understood. Because it is somewhat of an academic standard it is often an option to export any article one is working with in APA format, ensuring easy citation.
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