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Resources

Style Sheets, Documentation, and Plagiarism

Many years ago, the Department adopted a Style Sheet for Humanities and Arts Courses and a Statement on Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism. Discuss citation, documentation, and plagiarism with your instructor and advisors in the Humanities and Arts. Many additional resources regarding citation-style and documenting sources are also available.

• Citation Resources WPI
• Research Circuit: Citing Sources WPI
• Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement Dartmouth

Citation styles for electronic resources are evolving rapidly.  Where possible, citations to electronic articles should now include the DOI (Digital Object Identifiers), an alpha-numeric code registered to each scholarly article as a persistent link to the article, instead of the URL and date of access.  A number of resources are available.   See, for example:

• APA Style Guide to Electronic References with information about DOI
• Chicago Manual of Style Online (see ch. 16 for basic documentation patterns and ch. 17 for specific content)
• Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker
• Online! a Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
• Library of Congress: How to Cite Electronic Sources

Additional Resources at WPI:

• WPI Gordon Library has site licences to RefWorks and EndNote Web. These tools help to manage citations and simplify the use of different styles.
• WPI Center for Communication Across the Curriculum Resources

Project Forms

The following forms are available for students completing a Humanities and Art Sufficiency Project:

• Sufficiency Project Registration Form (PDF)
• Format: Concluding Project Title Page (for the Sufficiency Requirement or the Humanities and Arts Requirement)
• Foreign Language Forms
• Completion of Degree Requirement (CDR) Forms:
  • CDR - Sufficiency (PDF form which may be filled in electronically)
  • CDR - Humanities and Arts Requirement (PDF - with fillable fields)

To submit your concluding Project in the Humanities and Arts, you will need to follow the format provided in the sample title page and submit the Completion of Degree Requirement (CDR) form with an 80 word abstract, with the final project. Forms are also available from the Humanities and Arts Department or the Office of the Registrar.

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