cogitoveritas0008 Dave Murphy audio opensource_audio It's a tough question, deciding what is common knowledge and what requires attribution (citation/reference in APA format). I use an example from the university's plagiarism tutorial to demonstrate the difficulty that we (as scholars) can face. The tutorial gives an example of common knowledge facts; however, I am willing to bet that most of us aren't able to correctly answer one of the questions posed as an example. In fact, I rarely meet folk between the age of 10 and 40 that can correctly answer the example question... 2006-12-02 2006 cogitoveritas;common;knowledge;academics;writing;papers http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 2006-12-03 04:20:03 2006-12-03 04:19:39 member@itrain.org 2006-12-03 04:21:07 David S. Murphy