MLA-Style Citations
Resources
At North Toronto C.I. MLA-style citations are used in Humanities courses, such as English and History. All students are expected to learn to use MLA and to cite all works used for research and writing projects.
Citations must be used when:
1. Directly quoting words from a primary or secondary or tertiary source..
2. Indirectly quoting someone else's ideas or arguments.
3. Using statistics.
4. Including information in a paper that a student is not expected to know at this stage of his or her academic career.
FAILURE TO USE CITATIONS AS NEEDED MAY RESULT IN A CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM. PLAGIARISM WILL RESULT IN RECEIVING ZERO FOR THE ASSIGNMENT AND BEING SENT TO SEE ONE OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS. IN GRAVE SITUATIONS A SUSPENSION MAY BE ISSUED. PLEASE REVIEW TDSB POLICIES REGARDING PLAGIARISM AS FOUND IN YOUR STUDENT AGENDA.
Plagiarism is:
1. Using sources you have not cited.
2. Copying another student's work.
3. Allowing another student to copy your work.
4. Submitting the same assignment to more than one teacher.
The following Power Point will be reviewed in class. For further information, please see Purdue University's excellent website explaining MLA.
If you are still confused or concerned, the internet has a wide variety of materials available pertaining to MLA, or see a teacher or librarian for help.
Turnitin.com
At North Toronto C.I., as well as most other TDSB secondary schools, Turnitin.com is used to help students learn about plagiarism and citation rules and to help teachers identify plagiarism.
Turnitin.com is a web-based service to which students must submit written work. The service then checks their work against all other work submitted to Turnitin and against pages on the internet. It identifies potential issues of plagiarism and generates a report students and teachers can see. If a student submits an assignment early and if a report comes back with concerns, the student can adjust their use of quotations and citations and resubmit the assignment. Teachers can review the full report with the student if there are concerns.
To submit an assignment students should go to Turnitin.com, create an account, and join a class. After registering for a course, students can upload or copy and paste their assignment to the appropriate assignment box up until the due date of the assignment.
If you have never had a Turnitin account before, the following Power Point - created by the librarians at North Toronto - explains the service and how to sign up for an account and class.
Each course and each class has its own code. For the 2014-2015 academic year, the codes are as follows:
CHC2D1, Day 1, Period 2 - 8607703
CHC2D1, Day 1, Period 3 - 8607724
CHW3M1, Day 1, Period 4 - 8607737
ENG1D1, Day 2, Period 5 - 8607655
CHC2D1/2P1, Day 2, Period 7 - 8607688
The password for this year is the acronym for our school, in all small letters.