Chapter 18: Intellectual Property, Academic Integrity, and Avoiding Plagiarism

1. Chapter 18: Intellectual Property, Academic Integrity, and Avoiding Plagiarism

2. Historical Basis for the Concept of Intellectual Property What has value? How has the concept of assigning value evolved?

3. Agricultural Age – This has value:

4. Industrial Age – This has value:

5. Information age – this has value:

6. …and, oh yeah, these paper things have value, too:

7. How do we protect the value of an idea?

8. We operate in a world that values intellectual property.

9. Why credit sources in my essays?

10. Why credit sources in my essays? • Makes you and your argument trustworthy? (audience appeal)

11. Why credit sources in my essays? • Makes you (and your argument) trustworthy? (audience appeal) • Proper citation illustrates that you have done your research.

12. Why credit sources in my essays? • Makes you (and your argument) trustworthy? (audience appeal) • Proper citation illustrates that you have done your research. • Thinking through sources leads to closer self-analysis of your writing.

13. Citing Sources and Recognizing Plagiarism. Consider… • What we’ll be writing about this semester: essays from the book.

14. Citing Sources and Recognizing Plagiarism. Consider… • What we’ll be writing about this semester: essays from the book. • The responsibility of the writer

15. Citing Sources and Recognizing Plagiarism. Consider… • What we’ll be writing about this semester: essays from the book. • The responsibility of the writer • The societal view of plagiarism

16. Citing Sources and Recognizing Plagiarism. Consider… • What we’ll be writing about this semester: essays from the book. • The responsibility of the writer: student or professional • The societal view of plagiarism • You don’t want to run afoul of the Academic Integrity policy

17. Plagiarism can be:

18. Plagiarism can be: • A paraphrase too close to the original source.

19. Plagiarism can be: • A paraphrase too close to the original source. • Example: • Original: But certainly, the Monroe Doctrine fueled an unparalleled period of American colonialism. • Paraphrase: “some scholars feel that the Monroe Doctrine fueled an unmatched era of American colonialism.”

20. Plagiarism can be: • Omission of the parenthetical reference

21. Plagiarism can be: • Omission of the parenthetical reference. • Example: • But it is certain it caused an “unparalleled period of American colonialism.”

22. Plagiarism can be: • Omission of the parenthetical reference. • Example: • But it is certain it caused an “unparalleled period of American colonialism”. • Corrected: • But it is certain it caused an “unparalleled period of American colonialism” (Melancon).

23. Plagiarism can be: • Failure to acknowledge the source of an idea not your own.

24. Plagiarism can be: • Failure to acknowledge the source of an idea not your own. • Example: • Original: But certainly, the Monroe Doctrine fueled an unparalleled period of American colonialism. • Failure to acknowledge: “I would argue that American colonialism was fueled to a large degree by the Monroe Doctrine.”

25. How to acknowledge a source

26. How to acknowledge a source • Quotation marks around the words you’re directly quoting.

27. How to acknowledge a source • Quotation marks around the words you’re directly quoting. • But Dunbar-Ortiz asserted that “the realization of my own insignificance did not depress or frighten me.”

28. How to acknowledge a source • Quotation marks around the words you’re directly quoting. • Cite source in the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago).

29. How to acknowledge a source • Quotation marks around the words you’re directly quoting. • Cite source in the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago). • But Dunbar-Ortiz asserted that “the realization of my own insignificance did not depress or frighten me” (216).

30. How to acknowledge a source • Quotation marks around the words you’re directly quoting. • Cite source in the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago). • Include sources in Works Cited page.

31. How to acknowledge a source • Quotation marks around the words you’re directly quoting. • Cite source in the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago). • Include sources in Works Cited page. Works Cited • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxie. Red Dirt. Norman OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Print.

32. Things you should acknowledge: • Direct quotations • Facts that are not widely known • Arguable statements • Judgments, opinions, claims made by others • Images, statistics, charts, illustrations • Collaboration Source: Everything’s an Argument, 544

33. Exceptions (when you don’t have to cite) • Facts that are common knowledge • Facts available from a wide variety of sources • Your own findings

34. Internet Sources

35. Internet Sources • You still have to cite them

36. Internet Sources • You still have to cite them • “Fair use” applies in this class

37. Internet Sources • You still have to cite them • “Fair use” applies in this class • Instances you should still ask for permission:

38. Internet Sources • You still have to cite them • “Fair use” applies in this class • Instances you should still ask for permission: • Personal communications • Graphics, images, and photos if it’s going to be published outside of class. (Exception: pictures published under open license, e.g., Creative Commons)

39. And finally….collaboration: • Give credit to your collaborators.

40. Photos: • "Corn at the Union Sq Farmer's Market" by Jeff Pierce. Creative Commons License. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffpearce/254520406/. Web. • "Eagle and Phenix Mills 1914" by Raymond Dukes Creative Commons License.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57702050@N03/5443345378/. Web. • "Bill Gates - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting New York 2002" by World Economic Forum [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_New_York_2002.jpg. Web. • "Steve Jobs Co-founder of Apple Computer". Annie Banannie.Creative Commons License. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35798605@N05/4310088820/. Web. • "Mark Zuckerberg f8 Keynote" B.D. Solis. Creative Commons License. http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2696198607/. Web.