Thank you for your responses. I have been spending hours reading and borrowing books from the library for content. In just a few weeks my site should be completed!!

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I am a certified Newbie - have only just begun outlining for the site I want to create. My theme and content will be based upon personal experiences and observations that have come to me only after reading a particular book several years ago. The information gained from reading this book dramatically changed mine & my husband's lives (for the better, of course!).

My dilemna is that I want to incorporate the knowledge I have gained from reading this book, along with extensive research I have subesquently done on related subjects, into my site. Some of the technical / scientific information I want to provide I will of course reference my sources, but should I be referencing the original book each & every time I describe or explain a concept or fact I learned or confirmed from this book?

I certainly do not want to have my rookie project deemed shallow or, even worse, plagiarized.

HustleHard said: "I go to the LIBRARY everyday for at least 4 hours and gather my information.

Now I am writing all the pages putting them into one folder and then reviewing them before I publish them. This is the long and hard way but I belive it's the best. "

In all of your trips to the library, are you planning on referencing the sources of your specific info? Or just learning more about your subject and implementing / publishing your expanded knowledge as your own?

In addition to being new to this, I have also just recently "gone back to school". I'm completing my Bachelor's Degree at an online university, with the plan to attend law school within the next year or so. All of my textbooks have dozens pages of references, just to let the reader / student know that most o the book's content waste result of research from other sources. So I'm overly conscious of giving credit where it's due, but I don't want to go overboard either!

Kalien

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Kalien,

A good question. It certainly would be great if everyone shared your concern and, I might say, consideration. They don't, obviously, as some of Lisa's previous comments about people stealing her stuff indicates.

There is an old saying: "Steal from one person and it is plagiarism. Steal from two people and it is research." It is not really that easy but there are some rather basic guidelines.

Basic no no's include: repeating someone else's words directly (obvious), repeating someone's points (the same points, the same order), imitate the same flow of ideas. You've heard people say that they can't define something exactly but they know it when they see it. If you practice good judgement here you should be in good shape.

If you study any idea in several sources you will surely come to conclusions that are your own. If you think them over you will organize them in patterns that are your own. If you express an idea that is a specific thought that you find in only one place you can always give credit. (For example, I often quote the line: everyone is ignorant, just in different subjects. That comes from Gerald Mann and I have never heard it from anyone else so I always give him credit.)

You can find an excellent discussion of the subject on a professional level by going to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

Good Success!

James