*** HOW TO PROPERLY LINK TO OTHERS' STORIES ***

Hi all - I've realized that many of you do not have much experience reading or posting to blogs. You are to follow the same rules for avoiding plagiarism that you do for your other writing assignments. This link to Purdue's Online Writing Lab has some helpful guidelines. Among them:

Mark the quote with quotation marks, or set it off from your text in its own block, per the style guide your paper follows; Quote no more material than is necessary; if a short phrase from a source will suffice, don't quote an entire paragraph

To link to outside sources, click on the little button at the top of the text window that looks like a globe with a figure-eight and then paste the web address for that specific story into that pop-up window. That website then will be highlighted in your text for readers to use to explore the original source.