Plagiarism: I Want To See the Cites

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Plagiarism I Want To See the Cites!

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What is Plagiarism?

• According to Miriam-Websters Dictionary, to
  plagiarize is to steal and pass off the ideas
  or words of another as ones own use anothers
  production without crediting the source. (Miriam
  Webster, 2004)
• In other words
• words and ideas of others in your work that you
  have neglected to cite
• You have had help that you wouldnt want your
  teacher to know about.

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Is it really a problem?

• According to a 2002 national survey of high
  school students
• 54 of students admitted to plagiarizing from the
  Internet
• 74 of students admitted that at least once
  during the past school year they had engaged in
  serious cheating
• 47 of students believe their teachers sometimes
  choose to ignore students who are cheating
  (Stricherz,2001)

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Two Types of Plagiarism

• Unintentional/Accidental
• Careless paraphrasing
• Poor documentation
• Building on someone elses ideas without credit
  given
• Quoting excessively
• Failure to use your own voice

• Intentional/Deliberate
• Copying a friends work
• Buying,borrowing, or stealing papers
• Hiring someone to write your paper
• Cutting and pasting blocks of text from
  electronic sources without documenting
• Media borrowing without documentation
• Web publishing without permissions of creators

http//mciu.org/spjvweb/plagiarism.ppt
http//owl.english.purdue.edu
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Know the Difference!

• Over citing is not the same as plagiarism.
• Make sure you know how much of the assignment has
  to come from your own mind.
• Citing is support for a paper, not the paper
  itself.
• Common knowledge, original research, and personal
  experiences do not need to be cited.

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You Can Borrow from Others..

• Quoting
• Using the exact words of an author, copied
  directly from a source, word for word. Quotations
  must be cited!
• Paraphrasing
• Rephrasing the words of an author, putting his or
  her thoughts in you own words. Like quotations,
  paraphrased material must be followed with
  in-text citations cited on your Work
• Cited page.

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Borrowing (continued)

• Summarizing
• Involved putting the main idea(s) of one or
  several writers into your own words, including
  only the main point(s). Again, it is necessary to
  attribute summarized ideas to their original
  source.

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How To Avoid Plagiarism

• When you borrow someones work through quoting,
  paraphrasing, or summarizing you must cite.
  Citing is done through-out the paper with a full
  list at the end.
• Citing means that you provide information on the
  name of the author where it can be found.
• There are two styles APA and MLA.
• Your teacher will instruct you in which style
  they would like you to use. The internet is a
  great resource for helping you with format.

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Excuses

• Its okay if I dont get caught!
• Everyone does it.
• Its easy.
• The assignment was too hard, boring, long,
  dumb..this could go on forever!
• My teacher expects too much.
• I was too busy to do it. (Work, other homework,
  sports, friends, etc)
• I need to get a good grade on this so I can
  pass, get honors, get into ??? College.

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Why not?

• Plagiarism is wrong.
• You are not learning anything (cheating
  yourself). Believe it or not that is why you are
  here.
• Citing gives you the right to use other peoples
  words.
• It is only right to give credit to those whose
  ideas you use.

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Consequences

• As stated in the student handbook, plagiarism is
  punishable by four demerits and three detentions.
• Other possible consequences
• 0 on the assignment
• Parent notification
• Referral to administrators
• Suspension or dismissal from school
  activities--sports and extracurricular
• Note on student record
• Loss of reputation among the school community

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You Be The Judge

• Below are some situations in which writers need
  to decide whether or not they are running the
  risk of plagiarizing.
• You are writing new insights about your own
  experiences.
• You use some information from a source without
  ever quoting it directly.
• You have no other way of expressing the exact
  meaning of a text without using the original
  source verbatim.
• You mention that many people in your discipline
  belong to a certain organization.
• You want to begin your paper with a story that
  one of your classmates told about her experiences
  in Bosnia.
• The quote you want to use is too long, so you
  leave out a couple of phrases.
• You really like the particular phrase somebody
  else made up, so you use it.

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More self-testing

• Check this web-site out for more information and
  a few more self-tests

http//ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/introduction.htm
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Did We Really Just Come Up With All That?

• Nope! We found a lot of this information at the
  following website. And since this is a
  presentation on plagiarism we want to give credit
  where credit was due
• http//mciu.org/spjvweb/plagiarism.ppt
• Stricherz, M. (2001, May 3). Many teachers
  ignore cheating, survey finds. Education Week.
  Retrieved October 12, 2005
• OWL at Purdue University and Purdue University.
  (2004). Owl online writing lab Retrieved on
  10/10/05 from http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handou
  ts/print/research/r_plagiar.html
• Merriam-Webster Incorporated. (2004).
  Merriam-Websters School Dictionary. p. 733.