Information Resources for REL 303 Religion and Literature: Home

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

• This online writing lab contains links to how to properly format in the following citation management styles:
  • APA
  • MLA
  • Chicago
• The links to these guides are located on the left navigation bar towards the bottom of the homepage.

During the current COVID-19 crisis, JSTOR and our publishers are making additional content freely available to participating institutes where students have been displaced.

Contains a collection of free ebooks.  Subjects include Religion, Textbooks, Science, and Biographies. 

1. Understand the context of the document you are referencing

• Do not copy–paste the text verbatim from the reference paper. Instead, restate the idea in your own words.
• Understand the idea(s) of the reference source well in order to paraphrase correctly.
• Examples on good paraphrasing can be found here (https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase.html)

2. Quote

• Use quotes to indicate that the text has been taken from another paper. The quotes should be exactly the way they appear in the paper you take them from.

3. Identify what does and does not need to be cited

• Any words or ideas that are not your own but taken from another paper need to be cited.
• Cite Your Own Material—If you are using content from your previous paper, you must cite yourself. Using material you have published before without citation is called self-plagiarism.
• The scientific evidence you gathered after performing your tests should not be cited.
• Facts or common knowledge need not be cited. If unsure, include a reference.

4. Manage your citations

• Maintain records of the sources you refer to. Use citation software like EndNote or Reference Manager to manage the citations used for the paper
• Use multiple references for the background information/literature survey. For example, rather than referencing a review, the individual papers should be referred to and cited.

• Retrieved from https://www.enago.com/academy/how-to-avoid-plagiarism-in-research-papers/  on March 8, 2020

Semester Hours of Operation: 

Monday - Thursday
8AM - 9PM

Friday
8AM - 5PM

Saturday and Sunday
Closed