Welcome to Writing Seminar! 

This guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for research during your writing project. This guide was made to supplement the instruction used in class.  Use the tabs to navigate through the pages of this guide.  

Reference - identify key people, events and dates  

Books -  search for books on electronically in print or online.

Journals -  search for articles related to your research topics.

Inter-Library Loan- Explains how to request resources the PBU library doesn't own.

Resource Selection- Evaluation of resources, narrowing throught results, and more.

Citations-  Do you need help formulating your citations?

Course Extras- Class survey, presentation and additional materials.

Merriam Webster Online notes that to plagiarize is to “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source”. The dictionary source also defines it as “literary theft.”⁽¹⁾

Essentially, plagiarism is taking someone else’s ideas or words, intentionally or not, and presenting them as your own. This could be a quote or passage that you forgot to cite, or even an entire paper. Ideas can be plagiarized? Yes, ideas. If you read an article and take that stance as your own without crediting the article, that is also considered plagiarism. You are stealing someone else’s position and ideas instead of creating your own. You cannot grow as a student, thinker, and person if you steal from someone else.

At PBU we have high academic standards and plagiarism can lead to failure of a course or a complete dismissal. 

(1) "Plagiarism - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. Merriam-Webster. Web. 13 Sept. 2011. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarism>.