{"id":28,"date":"2020-12-16T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/chapter\/why-do-we-cite\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T16:34:53","slug":"why-do-we-cite","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/chapter\/why-do-we-cite\/","title":{"raw":"Why Do We Cite?","rendered":"Why Do We Cite?"},"content":{"raw":"Why is citing important?<\/strong>\n\n1. For Scholarly Communication<\/strong>\n\nAcademics engage in conversations to advance their knowledge and understanding of a subject. This happens mostly in written form through the publication of scholarly materials. In these academic conversations, it is necessary and expected that all prior thought is acknowledged and that all contributors to the conversation are credited. This is mostly done through citations.\"Two<\/a>\n\nCiting sources will situate a work in the current literature and will allow the reader to distinguish prior contributions from new original thought. Readers will be able to locate and read the cited sources to learn more about them, and they can check that thoughts and ideas are being passed on accurately.<\/span>\n\nBy reading, analyzing, and including scholarly sources in your assignments, you are contributing to and participating in this scholarly communication. You are therefore expected to acknowledge all the sources from which you drew information.\n\n \n\n2. To Give Credit and Show Professionalism<\/strong>\n

\"Image<\/a>In academic writing, it is considered ethically wrong to take credit for someone else\u2019s intellectual output. Citing your sources is a means of giving credit to the other person's efforts and to their findings. It shows respect for the intellectual output of others and demonstrates professionalism in your writing. To support your research and to add credibility to your arguments, you will mainly use scholarly and professional sources as evidence.<\/p>\n \n\n3. To Avoid Plagiarism<\/strong>\n\n\"Compilation<\/a>To avoid plagiarism, you always need to give credit to the person whose work or idea you are using, whether you quote, paraphrase, summarize, or otherwise use the ideas of others. Written and spoken words, music and videos, movies, performances, artwork, photographs, graphs, tables, figures, diagrams, data, computer code, and any other intellectual or creative product must be cited. This applies even if the original author agrees that you can use their intellectual\u00a0 output or if you paid to use it. It also applies to reusing your own work without citing it.\n\n \n

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Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n

\n\nThe main reasons why we cite are to:\n
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  1. \n
      \n \t
    1. Participate in scholarly communication<\/li>\n \t
    2. Give credit to our sources<\/li>\n \t
    3. Avoid plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIt might help to think:<\/strong> is this my own idea or did I read or hear about it in one of my sources? If it came from somewhere else, cite it.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","rendered":"

      Why is citing important?<\/strong><\/p>\n

      1. For Scholarly Communication<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Academics engage in conversations to advance their knowledge and understanding of a subject. This happens mostly in written form through the publication of scholarly materials. In these academic conversations, it is necessary and expected that all prior thought is acknowledged and that all contributors to the conversation are credited. This is mostly done through citations.\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

      Citing sources will situate a work in the current literature and will allow the reader to distinguish prior contributions from new original thought. Readers will be able to locate and read the cited sources to learn more about them, and they can check that thoughts and ideas are being passed on accurately.<\/span><\/p>\n

      By reading, analyzing, and including scholarly sources in your assignments, you are contributing to and participating in this scholarly communication. You are therefore expected to acknowledge all the sources from which you drew information.<\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

      2. To Give Credit and Show Professionalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \"Image<\/a>In academic writing, it is considered ethically wrong to take credit for someone else\u2019s intellectual output. Citing your sources is a means of giving credit to the other person’s efforts and to their findings. It shows respect for the intellectual output of others and demonstrates professionalism in your writing. To support your research and to add credibility to your arguments, you will mainly use scholarly and professional sources as evidence.<\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

      3. To Avoid Plagiarism<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \"Compilation<\/a>To avoid plagiarism, you always need to give credit to the person whose work or idea you are using, whether you quote, paraphrase, summarize, or otherwise use the ideas of others. Written and spoken words, music and videos, movies, performances, artwork, photographs, graphs, tables, figures, diagrams, data, computer code, and any other intellectual or creative product must be cited. This applies even if the original author agrees that you can use their intellectual\u00a0 output or if you paid to use it. It also applies to reusing your own work without citing it.<\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

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      Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

      \n

      The main reasons why we cite are to:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. \n
          \n
        1. Participate in scholarly communication<\/li>\n
        2. Give credit to our sources<\/li>\n
        3. Avoid plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          It might help to think:<\/strong> is this my own idea or did I read or hear about it in one of my sources? If it came from somewhere else, cite it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-28","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/19"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}