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PLAGIARISM!. how can we avoid it?. http://atempleton.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/plagiarism-cartoon/. What is plagiarism?.
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What is plagiarism? • Plagiarism is “the wrongful act of taking the product of another person’s mind and presenting it as onw’s own” (Alezander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality qtd. In Gibaldi 30). • Plagiarism isintellectual theft.
What counts as plagiarism? • Buying or downloading a paper and turning it in as your own • Copying any portion of another’s work without proper acknowledgement • Turning in another’s student’s work as your own, with or without their permission (http://www.pyrczak.com/antiplagiarism/cartoons.htm)
What counts?(continued…) • Copying material from a source, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks. • Paraphrasing writing and ideas from a source without proper documentation. "I stole my term paper off the Internet, but I think it’s okay. My topic is plagiarism."—Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/ATA%20News/Volume%2042/Number%2015/Pages/Cartoon.aspx
What happens if I get caught??? • In INT in-school suspension and a zero on the assignment • In college zero in the course, possible academic probation or expulsion, NO tuition reimbursement. • Beyond school you are facing law suits and charges of larceny and identity fraud. http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/school/cheating/article5.html
First of all, CITE CITE CITE CITE CITE! • Citing your sources means giving credit someone or something when what you use is not your original work
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When should you cite a source? • When you use another person's idea, opinion, or theory • When you use any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, pictures, sounds, etc. or any other piece of information which you found from any source • When you use quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words • When you paraphrase (put in your own words) another person's spoken or written words
What is included in a citation? • Who wrote or created it • What it is called • Where and by whom it was published or produced • When it was published or produced • Page numbers (We will go over this in more detail later on)
There are 3 ways to use another’s work in your paper… • Quoting • Summarizing • Paraphrasing
QUOTING • Using the exact works of the author of the passage. Your way of saying “these were his/her words, not mine!” • …BUT you still need to CITE!
SUMMARIZING • Restating only the main points of the passage in your own words. • Very brief. • …BUT you still need to CITE!
PARAPHRASING • Explaining the meaning of the text IN YOUR OWN WORDS. • Longer than a summary. • ….BUT you still need to CITE!
6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing… • Reread the original passage until you understand its full meaning. • Set the original aside, and write your paraphrase on a note card. • Jot down a few words below your paraphrase to remind you later how you envision using this material. At the top of the note card, write a key word or phrase to indicate the subject of your paraphrase. • Check your rendition with the original to make sure that your version accurately expresses all the essential information in a new form. • Use quotation marks to identify any unique term or phraseology you have borrowed exactly from the source. • Record the source (including the page) on your note card so that you can credit it easily if you decide to incorporate the material into your paper. The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. (2010). Paraphrase: Write it in your Own Words. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
It doesn’t matter where you find your information, whether it is a book, an interview, an electronic resource, or from the Internet; when you use the work of others you must give them the credit they deserve. When in doubt, cite your source!