Citation Styles   Tags: apa, chicago, citations, citing_sources, mla  

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) offers free writing consultations for students. Their experienced tutors can advise you at any stage in your writing process:

• Search for scholarly sources
• Organize your notes and plan your paper
• Revise drafts for clarity and conciseness
• Revise drafts for grammar and mechanical errors
• Incorporate sources more effectively into your text
• Use the correct documentation style

Please call the ARC at 310-338-2847 to set up an appointment.

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
• any facts, statistics, graphs, images—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
• quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
• paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

Here are some links to tutorials that will help you understand more about plagiarism and how to avoid it:

Read more about the ACRL Information Literacy Standards