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Awesome MLA Powerpoint. How Not to Plagiarize Accidentally. What is considered plagiarism?. Intentional Examples Buying a paper on the Internet. Constructing a paper entirely out of bits you cut-and-pasted from the Internet.

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  1. Awesome MLA Powerpoint How Not to Plagiarize Accidentally

  2. What is considered plagiarism? Intentional Examples • Buying a paper on the Internet. • Constructing a paper entirely out of bits you cut-and-pasted from the Internet. • Two friends writing one paper together and turning it in to two different classes. • Stealing your roommate’s 1020 paper while he’s out on a date and turning it in as your own.

  3. What is considered plagiarism? Unintentional Examples • Quoting something without citing it. • Not quoting something when you should have. • Not citing statistics and uncommon knowledge even when they’re in your own words. • Not citing a paraphrase of someone else’s information, opinion, theory, etc.

  4. What counts as common knowledge? This can be tough to decide. General rules to follow: • Did I know it before I began researching? • Is it a statistic of some sort? • Would the average person know this? (Not BELIEVE it if you told them, but already know it.) • An example: • The average bottle of water is about a dollar. (No Citation) • 10 million bottles of Aquafina were sold on WSU’s campus in 2006. (Citation Needed)

  5. What is Paraphrase? • Restating and rewording a passage or text, keeping the original message intact. • Paraphrase is done to elaborate on texts, to render a text more understandable to those outside the discipline, or to avoid having huge chunks of block quotes in a paper you’re being forced to write in an English class. • Paraphrase showcases your understanding of the text, as it demonstrates your ability to convey the message the original author intended in your own voice. Very strong ethos move.

  6. Paraphrasing • As Nathaniel Bell once famously said, “This is not a paraphrase.” • This is not a paraphrase. • This is not really a paraphrase.

  7. A More Scholarly Example • “Given that his superpowers are essentially restricted to talking to fish, Aquaman is perhaps the most useless hero in the DC Universe, and his admirers must be regarded as utterly devoid of taste.” –Mitch McGill • Given that his superpower is simply to talking to fish, Aquaman is perhaps the most useless hero in the DC Universe, and his admirers must be regarded as utterly devoid of taste. (Plagiarism) • For example, fans of the superhero Aquaman are regarded by some comic book collectors as lacking in taste, as his abilities are humorous and of questionable usefulness. (Plagiarism) • For example, fans of the superhero Aquaman are regarded by some comic book collectors as lacking in taste, as his abilities are humorous and of questionable usefulness (McGill). (Not plagiarism)

  8. Why should I care about any of this? • Because it’s the legal, fair, upstanding, honest thing to do. • Because it makes you appear more trustworthy to your audience. • Because you would want to be credited if it was your work being used as a source. • Because WSU, like many schools, has a zero-tolerance policy which means that even unintentional plagiarism CAN get you an F in the course and a letter on your file explaining why you got the F. You might also find yourself on trial. • And because even if your instructor doesn’t take this step, you are still going to fail the paper.

  9. What you may be thinking: …Yeah, right. The average US Comp instructor has multiple classes, with 25-30 students per class. There’s no way in hell my instructor has time to doublecheck every single one of those papers.

  10. Reasons people get caught anyway: • We read a lot of your writing. You may not realize how individual your voice is, but we do. • We talk to each other, a lot. And many composition papers are read by a trio of instructors, rather than just one. You may slip past Mr. Davidson and Ms Saoirse, only to be caught in the deadly clutches of Mrs. Pennydowns! • Your instructors (all of them) have access to a program called SafeAssign through Blackboard.

  11. What does SafeAssign do? • SafeAssign is a program that searches documents against the Internet at large, and a database of university papers submitted across the country by students like yourselves. • An instructor would NEVER add your paper to the database without your permission, but many students choose to have their work added, and the instructor can still check your essay without adding it. • If a sentence or sentences match other sentences by a certain percentage or more (Returns aren’t just 100%, but 89% or even 65%.) the program highlights the text and provides a link showing your instructor exactly where the text came from.

  12. Final Thoughts Every instructor I have ever spoken with agrees that students rarely plagiarize on purpose. Most instances are pure accidents, resulting from misunderstanding or ignorance of citation methods. This information is not intended to make an accusation, but to educate and prepare. Some teachers come down very hard on even accidental plagiarism, and Comp. instructors would be remiss in their obligations to you if we did not make you aware of the seriousness of this situation.

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