Whenever you use someone’s words or ideas to support your own writing assignment, you need to give credit back to the original source. In composition courses we do this with citations. The sources below will outline how to properly cite sources to give credit where credit is due. Remember, anytime you directly quote or paraphrase someone else's words or ideas you need to cite them.
For this course you'll be using the Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition) for citing information. You'll find Chapter 14: Notes and Bibliography especially useful for creating citations! Owl Purdue also provides a great guide for the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition.
