A&B: 23.1, 23.2, 23.3 Penguin Handbook: 68-113

Citing your sources is a very important part of and written work.  The words that you say, or anything that is common knowledge doesn't have to be sourced, but anything pulled from someone else's work or is "controversy" as they say in the Allyn Bacon Guide, should be cited.  The main way of citing is known as an in-text citation. "An in-text citation identifies a source in the body of the paper." (Allyn & Bacon 526) The in-text citation is small is pared with another more complete citation in the works cited.  In the works cited page the sources should be in alphabetical order giving the publisher, date of publication, full title, and any other important information, while the in text citation simply gives the authors last name, and the page number from where the source was found.  Knowing how to cite your sources is important, because it will save you from plagiarism.  I personally need to improve of this skill, because it is easy to get lazy, when it comes to sourcing.  It will be very helpful in my research project to know how to cite a source properly.