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Giving proper credit for information found on the Internet is as important as giving credit for any information found in other sources when used in multimedia writing projects. While it's true that the technology can make it easier to plagiarize than manually copying from an encyclopedia, it's also true that using technology allows students and staff to use more resources in the same amount of time and hopefully give a more complete report. Our challenge is to make certain that the research skills discussed earlier are presented to students and staff in such a way that all involved feel a need to use these increased number of resources in a more thoughtful way. We need to encourage more synthesizing and evaluating in the overall process. Beyond that, there are some well recognized procedures to follow when citing Internet resources used in multimedia writing. These will vary only slightly in style from the written form of report to the actual multimedia writing project, but will vary greatly in function since the multimedia report can actually contain live links back to your resources to allow others to not only check your citations, but also to use the sites in their projects. In a written report, you should also include printed copies of the material you cite in your bibliography. In a multimedia report, you may want to include written copies, but more importantly you'll want to create links to the actual sites both in the project and the bibliography. There are a number of Internet sites that also offer additional information concerning citing electronic resources: |