<p>I'm writing a research paper, and one of the bits of information I found, I'm not sure exactly where I got the information. I know the author in such, but not sure where exactly in his/her book I found the infor. Do teachers in college look over every paper, and read the refrence page, making sure we didn't copy stuff without citing the right information?</p>
<p>If you do not cite something properly, that is considered plagiarizing. This is a very serious offense in college. And yes, they do check.</p>
<p>Most professors will check your sources. Especially if it's for an English class. Most of them will put it into Turnitin.com to see if any matches come up. I'd do some searching and see what I could find for a source. The last thing you want is to be nailed for plagiarism :-/</p>
<p>Yeah, and you can fail if you do. I'd suggest googling the info, and if it's real, you'll find an article or something (not wikipedia -- make sure it's a legit web site) that you can cite. Or else, cite the book without the page. Slightly wrong stylewise, depending on how strict the professor is (but if they took anything off it would be like 2 points or something) but make sure you give credit.</p>
<p>If you don't know the page number, I don't think it's that big of a problem, as long as you cite the author and book. But you should have page numbers if you want it to be 100% correct.</p>
<p>definitely site as much as you can</p>
<p>Cite as much as possible. Better safe than sorry. And don't do a half-assed job, it shows. Track down the page.</p>
<p>What would I put for this (journal article?) as the author?</p>
<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001027.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001027.pdf</a></p>
<p>I'm thinking you can just put National Center for Education Statistics. I'm thinking some styles of citations have different rules though. If you google the style you're trying to do (MLA, APA, etc) with citation, there are a lot of websites that explain how to do everything in detail.</p>
<p>kinglin:</p>
<p>That isn't the journal article itself. On the last page there is reference to where they got the information for that bulletin, I would find and cite that source instead.</p>