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COM 2224 Business and Professional Writing
Resources for Business and Professional Writing, COM 2224
Did you know: if you Google search images and copy/paste photos and graphics into your presentation, you could be stealing someone else's property?
When creating a visual presentation, you want to avoid copyright infringement or plagiarism by using images that are licensed for re-use. Check out this slide show for step-by-step help.
Pixabay is a website for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage, and music for free exclusively under the custom Pixabay license, a modified and somewhat more restrictive version of the Creative Commons CC0 license.
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license. The website claims over 207,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 17 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 2 million photos.
Browse through themed collections of photos and images from the Library of Congress' Digital Collections. All items are in the public domain or have copyright clearance.
In MLA Style, Cite a photograph found on a website the same way you would cite any work of art found online. This post from the MLA Style Center contains info and examples on how to do this.
This post from the APA Style website will explain how to execute an APA Style citation for a part of a work (table, chart, figure) from an outside source.
Use these guidelines for images you reprint or embed directly in your work. These images are not cited on your references list but instead use the rules for tables and figures.
