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POLITICS 236: THE AMERICAN SUPREME COURT AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Professor Rush)

Fall 2019
https://libguides.wlu.edu/pol236

Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism is described in the W&L 2019-20 Catalog, and cited by the Student Executive Committee, as "the use of another's words, figures, or ideas without proper ackowledgement."   The resources listed here should be considered reliable sources of advice about what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it.

Citation Styles

Unfortunately, there is no universally agreed-upon "style" for documenting the use of sources in research -- no single method for formatting footnotes, bibliographies, endnotes, in-text citations, etc.  Instead, there are more than a dozen, most of which are specialized for use in one or more subject areas.   The W&L University Library maintain a collection of resources on these styles:

Professor Rush prefers students in POL 236 use the Style Manual for Political Science (rev. 2018) from the American Political Science Association

Annotations and Literature Reviews

What is involved in creating an annotated bibliography?   Here are some guides:  Purdue University University of Wisconsin  |  Hunter College

 

A journal article's literature review discusses the existing research on aspects of the topic.

English Language Dictionaries and Usage

Go to this page to use

  • three of the most respected dictionaries of the English language available online;
  • major printed and online guides to usage and grammar.