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What Is a Bibliography?

A bibliography is a list of books, articles, websites, and other resources. It usually is located at the end of a presentation or paper. Bibliographies use a standardized method of writing all the important information needed to locate all the materials you used, referenced, quoted, and consulted while preparing your presentation or paper. In essence, it is a map of the research and information you used to build your own ideas and arguments.

What Is the Purpose of a Bibliography?

A bibliography allows other people to better evaluate your paper or presentation. By looking at your research and sources, they can find out if your paper or presentation is scholarly, and assess whether or not they think your ideas are true.

Bibliographies are also a way of sharing information. If someone wanted to do research in the same areas as you, they might use your bibliography to find relevant books and articles on the topic.

Having a bibliography is also a way of acknowledging other people's work. It is considered ethical to acknowledge any ideas, phrases, quotations, and works that you use in your work and assignments that are not your own. To fail to acknowledge other people's work is considered plagiarism, and the university has strict rules regarding plagiarism. Being charged with plagiarism can lead to being expelled from the university.

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What Is Plagiarism?

The University of Manitoba wants to make sure all students credit their sources, and do their own work. Plagiarism occurs when students or other people use or copy other people's work or ideas without citing them in a bibliography or by some other method.

You must also be careful not to copy other students' work and ideas. You cannot work with other students on projects unless it has been approved by your professor. Inappropriate collaboration is also considered plagiarism, and is punishable at the University of Manitoba. It is your responsibility to avoid plagiarism. If you need help, consult the links below or contact the Learning Assistance Centre, your professor, or a librarian.