I wrote this for contributors to Connecticut Woodlands magazine. Its advice should help any writer getting started in journalism.

In this age of the internet, writers must be extremely careful not to inadvertently plagiarize by cutting (from web sources) ideas, quotations, background, or even most facts, and then pasting them into your article without proper attribution.

These guidelines would serve any writer for any outlet. They are simply good journalism.

Name your sources:

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Appalachia journal and the career of Rebecca Oreskes both got the attention at the annual dinner of an organization that works to protect alpine summits in the northeastern United States. It took place on Saturday, April 14 in Jackson, New Hampshire. Rebecca, newly retired from the U.S. Forest Service and a longtime writer and editor on conservation and wilderness topics, accepted the Guy Waterman Alpine Stewardship Award from Laura Waterman.

Five years ago the Waterman Fund and Appalachia journal began collaborating on...

The MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusestts decided to launch its first big public exhibit on a controversial aspect of "one of the most complicated and difficult issues to deal with, scientifically, politically, and publicly"—climate change. So said museum director John Durant at Friday's press preview of "Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya."

For five years now, David Breashears, the mountaineer and filmmaker, has been photographing vantage points climbers captured 80 and more years ago. Breashers stood in the same places they...