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mages Aren't Just Up For Grabs This is tough for adults to understand, let alone teenagers, but it's actually very simple. Just because a picture is on the Web doesn't mean you can use it on your own website, in your project or to illustrate your paper.

Web Pages Don't Always Stay the Same (Static Pages) Sometimes your teen will come across a great web page he wants to reference in his research paper. It can be a fact sheet, a journal article or abstract or something else. It's fine to reference the page, but it's important that he understand not all web pages are static. That is, the information on the page can change depending on whether or not the web creator has designated the page to stay exactly the same. Blogs are good examples of non-static pages. The page changes daily as the next post appears. To be careful, it's good form for your teen to reference the date the page was accessed in his bibliography. For example: Using the Internet for Research - What Your Teen Needs to Know, [URL]; accessed on April 4, 2012.

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ard time figuring out how to put information in their own words. They don't intend to plagiarize, but that's the end result. If your teen is concerned this may be the case, it's