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FAQ from the MLA Handbook Online about how to cite a tweet.

"Our job as teachers is to draw our students attention to the fact that copy-paste culture is destructive and that appropriate citations and crediting back the sources, if ever we are allowed to, are two important things we always need to invoke as we are dealing with both digital and non digital content.  I have an entire section in this blog packed full of resources, tools and tips on how to teach your students about copyright, check it out here to learn more. Today, I am sharing with you this wonderful flowchart I come across in digital inspiration. You can use it with you students to teach them about the kinds of images to cite and how to do so."

Planning to follow this through and share broadly. Examples so useful

Includes pre-test, post-test, what is plagiarism, consequences, common knowledge, paraphrasing, citing sources, detection services

This 1947 college newspaper essay from Martin Luther King is the source for his oft-cited quotations on the function of education as it relates to critical thinking. With the essay he also notes the import of character and the transmission of culture.

Report from Turnitin.com about what sources students are citing in their research projects based on an analysis of 9 million student papers.

Citelighter captures text, cites it and allows a comment.

This central repository contains bite-sized information literacy learning resources...to integrate into teaching materials... There is a selection of activities, quizzes, diagrams and cartoons as well as short ready-made self-paced tutorials on a range of essential information literacy topics such as citing references and plagiarism.

See section "Reference List" (students required to identify parts of a work to complete a reference entry). "Citing" section may also be useful. The site has Havard style focus but good for generic skills.

Students can type in what they are researching and the search will return the top sources cited for that topic!

"Citelighter is an easy-to-use academic research tool that utilizes a community of students to help you find valuable content, automatically cite sources, and provide an organizational framework for writing your papers."

division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1277 journals and 6,131,218 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,955,839 articles free . With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.

NoodleTools has created easy to use modules for the classroom and home.  Use these modules to enhance your teaching and guide students in information evaluation. What constitutes credible information? How does source type contribute to relevance, authority and point-of-view? How do I evaluate and cite born-digital images and online sources? All modules incorporate common core concepts.

Beth Gourley of ASMSA reviews it: "... like many cite generators the citation generation is sloppy, and it needs a good deal of editing....when using citation generators, NoodleTools gets the citation format correct."