Your essay must be written in compliance with Kean University’s Academic Integrity Policy. You are not required to utilize source materials in this assignment. I want to see evidence of your ability to think creatively and imaginatively about the essay question, not a demonstration of your skill at cutting and pasting from the internet. If you decide to draw on material that is not a product of your own brain, this material must be cited in accordance (more or less) with a standard referencing system (e.g., Chicago, MLA, APA). This means that:
All words and sentences that are taken from another source – e.g., a book, a journal, or a website – must be put in quotation marks. The author, source, and page number of the quote should be identified in the body of the text, immediately after the quotation.
Here is an example of how you can do this: James Rachels says that “Darius, a king of ancient Persia, was intrigued by the variety of cultures he encountered in his travels” (Rachels 2006: 406). The same goes for paraphrased material – that is, material that is appropriated from another source but rephrased or reworded. For example, James Rachels notes that a king of old Persia, Darius, had a keen interest in the many cultures that he discovered while traveling the globe (Rachels 2006: 406).
Full citations for the sources you’ve used must be included at the end of the essay in a reference list alphabetized by the authors’ last names. Here’s an example of an acceptable reference list: