St. Martin’s Guide 755

Acknowledging Sources

• The only types of information that do not require acknowledgment are common knowledge, facts widely available in many sources, well-known quotations, or material you created or gathered yourself
• You do need to acknowledge the source of any visual that you did not create yourself  or of any information that you used to create your own visual

• MLA and APA styles

• Take notes carefully by placing parenthetical source citations correctly, and by separating your words from those of the source with signal phrases