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Plagiarism

Learn about the consequences of plagiarism, intentional and unintentional types, real-life examples, and strategies to avoid plagiarism. References taken from Joyce Brannon's "Plagiarism" PowerPoint Presentation and Joyce Valenza's "What is Plagiarism?"

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Plagiarism

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  1. Plagiarism Giving Credit Where Credit is Due! -- taken from Joyce Brannon’s “Plagiarism.” PowerPoint Presentation & Joyce Valenza’s “What is Plagiarism?” (See works cited). (Internet downloads)

  2. PoliticsNJ, The Pulblis Group, Hoboken, NJ. http://www.politicsnj.com/plagerism090903.htm.

  3. Consequences: • Plagiarism is theft of intellectual property. • Plagiarism is cheating. • Plagiarism will result in getting a zero for the assignment. Plagiarism could also result in a disciplinary referral.

  4. Intentional • Copying a friend’s work. • Buying or borrowing papers. • Cutting and pasting blocks of text from electronic sources without documenting. • Media “borrowing” without documentation. • Web publishing without permissions of creators. Unintentional • Careless paraphrasing. • Poor documentation. • Quoting excessively. • Failure to use your own “voice.” Two types of plagiarism:

  5. Prominent historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, left television position and stepped down as Pulitzer Prize judge for “lifting” 50 passages for her 1987 book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys . • Senator Joseph Biden dropped his 1987 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination after it was revealed that he copied in law school and borrowed from campaign speeches of Robert Kennedy. • Boston Globe journalist Mike Barnicle was forced to resign for plagiarism in his columns . • After a probe of plagiarism at UVA, 45 students were dismissed, and three graduate degrees were revoked. Real Life Consequences:

  6. An engineer cheated his way through math class. Do you want to drive over a bridge he designed? • A lawyer paid for a copy of the bar exam to study. Do you want her defending you in court? • An accountant hired someone to write his papers and paid a stand-in to take his major tests? Do you want him filing your taxes? What if…

  7. Hooray for common knowledge! • Facts that are widely known. • Information or judgments considered “common knowledge.” • You are discussing your own experiences, observations, or reactions. Information That Does NOT Have to be Cited:

  8. John Adams was our second president. • The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Examples of Common Knowledge …

  9. Quoting - Quotations are the exact words of an author, copied directly from a source, word for word. • Paraphrasing - Paraphrasing means rephrasing the words of an author, putting his/her thoughts in your own words. When you paraphrase, you rework the source’s ideas, words, phrases, and sentence structures with your own. • Summarizing - Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) of one or several writers into your own words, including only the main point(s). Summaries are significantly shorter than the original and take a broad overview of the source material. To avoid plagiarism, use these three strategies:

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