Quote Originally Posted by BigGreen
My question to you is this:

Did you simply forget to cite the site in the bibliography, meaning that there was an in-text indication of a citation (ie there was a footnote or parenthetical cite that simply never corresponded to the works cited page) or did you forget to cite it as a work AS WELL AS in text?

The former situation is a relatively easy one to forgive; the latter situation, however, is decidedly worse. I'm not trying to rain on your parade right now, but if the latter is the case, be prepared to deal with some tougher questions, particularly if you don't have a whole lot of citations. For example, if your paper has 60 footnotes or ten works consulted you're in better shape than if you have 8 footnotes and two works cited.

Either way, I think it's certain you'll be able to explain the situation...but look for language in your paper that bolsters your claim you intended to cite...ie, "as Jones argues" or "according to several scholars".
It is unfortunetly the latter of those two. However, this is what I'm guessing happened, I can't even fully remember the night I did it. I figure that I was up late, and I had 3 browsers open, I read from three different sites, and used 2 lines or so from one of the sites (and just read from the others). I had then closed all three browsers, and continued with the essay and what not. Since this was the second essay (for the same class), I had taken my old essay, and just changed the title page (instead of writing it all out again, ex: my name, date, course code), and then I had deleted the body (writing my new essay), and since I didn't want to write the whole biblio again, I just changed my old biblio, and as I did this, I'm guessing I had completely forgotten that I had used those 3 websites, and just left them out completely. I still write a citation (even if I just read a website/book) generally. Also, because this was a last minute thing, and I was rushing, I did not do it the formal way (like being professional with footnotes and stuff) and I knew I would lose marks for that. I just put the page number of the quote from the book/text, and nothing from the site.