Avoiding Plagiarism

1. Avoiding Plagiarism • & Editorial Outlines

2. Objectives • Understand mLA formatting & how to do it • understand plagiarism’s definition & How to avoid it • Learn the basics of citation & incorporating sources into essays

3. Exam Debrief • MLA formatting: no one did this perfectly... • WHy did i get a 50? • You attempted to cite sources, but did not do it correctly or thoroughly; • you relied too heavily on quotations from sources without providing much of your own analysis.

4. MLA FORMAT • 1 inch margins; 12 pt font; no bold; times new roman; double spaced • wall 1 • briana wall • professor doodle • English 12 • 22 april 2014 • original title

6. Fix me! • how would you change this to comply with mla format?

7. Objectives • understand plagiarism’s definition & How to avoid it • Learn the basics of citation & incorporating sources into essays

8. Quiz • Which of the following DO NOT constitute plagiarism (more than one may apply): • A) summarizing information learned from the internet without citing. • B) Paraphrasing a web source without citing. • c) using a quotation from a source without quotation marks. • d) None of the above

9. plagiarism • 1) turning in someone else's work as your own • 2) copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit • 3) failing to put a quotation in quotation marks • 4) giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation • 5) changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit • 6) copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

10. plagiarism • 1) turning in someone else's work as your own • 2) copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit • 3) failing to put a quotation in quotation marks • 4) giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation • 5) changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit • 6) copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

11. Which of the previous definitions of plagiarism apply to me?

12. Which of the previous definitions of plagiarism apply to me?

13. How to avoid • 2) copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit • *CITE SOURCe right after you are finished discussing/quoting it. • *If you switch to a new source and come back to the first one, RE-CITE It. • *if you start a new paragraph referring to the previous source, you must re-cite. • *create a works cited.

14. when not to cite • use common sense and knowledge of your audience to know what constitutes ‘common knowledge.’ familiar proverbs and well-known quotations also do not need to be cited. • -owl purdue mla formatting & Style guide

15. how do i cite my source? • quote: “blah blah blah” (AUTHOR PG. #). • paraphrase: bleh bleh bleh (Author pg. #). • Summary: Blech (Author pg. #). • varying your citation: you can reference information within the text & anything not referenced still goes in parentheses: • in jeremy renner’s article “looking pretty,” he states, “blah blah blah” (4).

16. when not to cite • use common sense and knowledge of your audience to know what constitutes ‘common knowledge.’ familiar proverbs and well-known quotations also do not need to be cited. • -owl purdue mla formatting & Style guide

17. what to do when you can’t find an author • No pg. #? Just put the author. (BURKE). • no author? look for the article/pg. title. Put the three first words of the title in quotes: (“searching for organic” 8). • No article/pg. title? Put the name of the book/website. • Multiple names? list them all (smith, yang, and moore 76) or if more than four names (Smith et. al).

18. when do you need a works cited? • A) only when you use more than one source • B) only when your instructor asks • C) Whenever you are asked to follow mla format • D) What is a works cited?? • E) only for essays, not for powerpoints or other projects.

19. use bibme or son of citation machine to format your works cited works cited

21. how to avoid • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

22. how to avoidquotation mishaps • *is it in the same wording as the source? put it in quotes. • *did you delete a small part of it? use ... • “After the war... hemingway spent much of his time exploring the ideas of war & death in his writing.” • *did you change the tense or pronoun to make the quote blend in with your writing? use [[ ] • Hemingway’s experiences affected him greatly, and “after the war... [he] spent much of his time exploring the ideas of war and death in his writing”

23. making the best use of your space • *only use quotes if absolutely necessary! • *do not use a bunch of block quotes (quotes over four lines) • block quote example: • bottom is a character in the middle of a nervous breakdown which is expressed in his nonsensical words and mutterings. In act 1 scene 5 for instance, he says: • “upon the branches/blah blah blah/under the trees/ yada yada/ tum tum tum/ bleh bloop bloop/ floop floop flup ffjdkslfdsjklfdsjkflds • jkdsljfkdslfjdkslfjdksljkdsljfkdsljkdsljdskljjfdkslfjdkslfjdsk • ljfkdslfjkdsljfkdlsjfkdsljfkldsjfkldsjfkldsj” (35). the juxtaposition of branches and blah shows that he is transitioning between states of lucidity and insanity as he begins his mutterings. all

24. using sources • when do i quote? • when do i paraphrase? • when do i summarize? to argue with/extend argument; lend authoritative support; add eloquence/power when a lot of information is needed, but you want to retain voice; you already used a lot of quotes when readers don’t need all the details

25. paraphrase example • “once the food industry saw there was a profit to be made, ‘organic’ stopped being a guarantee of attention to flavor or individual care” -Corby kummer’s back to grass • Unfortunately, when big business realized how much interest was developing in ‘organic’ beef, the emphasis turned away from health and reverted back to making a profit (123). • portland state university writing center. “quotes, paraphrases, and summaries: What they are and how to use them.”http://www.writingcenter.pdx.edu/resources/library.php?step09_detail_1.html how not to paraphrase: Once businesses saw that they could make money, “organic” became less of a promise of taste or quality.

26. Paraphrase the following... • Paraphrase and cite the following quote: • “In a June 1, 2009 study by the New Teacher Project, 86% of school administrators said, ‘they do not always pursue dismissal’ of poorly performing teachers because of the costly and time consuming process.” • Daniel Weisberg, Susan Sexton, Jennifer Mulher, David Keeling, "The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness" (5.8 MB) , The New Teacher Project website, www.widgeteffect.org, June 1, 2009

27. what to do when format isn’t specified • CHOOSE ONE! Especially one that is commonly used in your discipline.