COPYING/PASTING

Copying/Pasting provides an easy way to copy portions of text from a Web page to a word processing document, Word to Excel, Excel to Word, Access to Word, Acess to Excel, Word to Publisher, Paint to Word, etc. Almost anything can be copied from one program to another.  Plagiarizing is against Copyright Law and is a major concern to all educators because of the ease of copying and pasting information.

1. Use a search engine such as http://www.mamma. com and search for the term Netiquette.
2. Select a definition of Netiquette using your mouse (click and drag)
3. Click EDIT from the Menu Bar; click the COPY command
4. Use the Minimize button to move Netiquette to the Windows 95 Taskbar
5. Launch Microsoft Word
6. A new Word document is now open and ready to accept your definition
7. Click EDIT from the Menu Bar; click the PASTE command
8. Minimize Word
9. Maximize Netscape from the Windows 95 Taskbar
10. Use the COPY command to copy the URL address in the Location box
11. Minimize Netscape
12. Maximize Word from the Windows 95 Taskbar
13. Paste the URL site under the Netiquette definition in the open Word document 

These general directions will work for copying from any program to another or from one document to another in the same program.

The format for citing Internet sources is listed below:

General Structure
Author.  Title of item [Online] Available http://address, date of document or download.

Example--Northside Logo you saved would be cited as:
NISD Home-Netscape [Online] Available http://www.nisd.net, current date.

Check out these sites for other information about documentation.
http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/mla.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/cite.html