Plagiarism

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Plagiarism
Plagiarism, defined simply, is the unattributed
use of someone elses words or ideas.
Every writer has the responsibility to learn how
to attribute sources accurately and fully.
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Penalties for Plagiarism

• The English department policy plagiarism
  results in a zero that cannot be made up and may
  be subject to failure for the course.
• In the real world plagiarism has resulted in
  the loss of jobs and even criminal prosecution in
  the courts.

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Plagiarism Detection

• Turnitin.com is Benets primary source for the
  prevention and detection of plagiarism. Be sure
  to set up your user account and submit all
  required papers.
• Keep all the components of your writing process
  These include brainstorm sheets, prewriting
  plans, TOS sheets and rough drafts to prove your
  work is original.

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Knowing Which Sources to Acknowledge

• Materials That Dont Require Acknowledgment
• Common Knowledge
• Fact
• Your own ideas
• Your own field of research

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Materials That Require Acknowledgment

• books, articles from journals or newspapers, and
  Web sites.
• an interview you conduct yourself, or the
  instruction manual
• Everything that you draw from another source,
  unless it falls into one of the categories
  described above (common knowledge, fact, your own
  ideas, and your own field research), must be
  cited.

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Some guidelines for which materials require
acknowledgment in academic writing

• Another persons words. Direct quotations must
  always be cited.
• Another persons ideas. Even if you rephrase
  someone elses idea by paraphrasing or
  summarizing it, it must be cited. Citations for
  paraphrases and summaries look just like
  citations for quotations, except that there are
  no quotation marks involved.
• Judgments, opinions, and arguments.

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More guidelines

• Visual information. If you use a chart, graph,
  or picture from another source-or if you use the
  information from that chart, graph, or
  picture-acknowledge the source.
• Information that can be attributed to a company
  or organization rather than a single person. This
  is often the case with Web pages, which tend not
  to list individual authors.

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Guidelines, continued

• Information gathered from class lectures or from
  another aural source. If you heard it rather than
  saw it, you must still cite it.

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Taking Notes During the Research Process

• Keep index cards or a notebook to write the
  complete bibliographic information and page
  numbers- from each source you consult for a paper
  or project.
• Avoid patchwriting thats taking notes which
  are not exact quotations, but which are too close
  to the original sources wording.

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Summarizing

• Example

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Paraphrasing

• Example

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Direct Quoting

• Example

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The Benet Style Manual

• Purchase one from the book store, or find it
  on-line on Benets Library Web page.
• Accurately follow MLA guidelines for all English
  papers

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Works Cited Page Sample

• Garcia 9
• Works Cited
• California Wildlife Protection Coalition.
  California
• Mountain Lion Page. 27 Mar. 1996.
• Sierra Club. 24 Mar. 1999 lthttp//www.sierraclub
  .org/chapters/ca/mountain-liongt.
• Eagan, Terrence M., Wayne Long, and Steven
  Arroyo. Re- buttal to Argument against
  Proposition 197. 1996
• California Primary Election Server. 1996.
  California
• Secretary of State. 24 Mar. 1999 lthttp//
• primary96.ss.ca.gov/e/ballot/197again2.htmlgt.
• Hansen, Kevin. Cougar The American Lion.
  Flagstaff
• Northland, 1992.
• Hornocker, Maurice G. Learning to Live with
  Lions.
• National Geographic July 1992 37-65.
• Lion Attacks Prompt State to Respond. New York
  Times
• 18 Oct. 1995, late ed. A21.
• McPhee, Mike. Danger Grows as Lions Lose Fear.
  Denver
• Post 19 July 1997. 2nd ed. A1.
• Mountain Lion Attacks on Humans. Outdoor
  California.
• 21 Mar. 1996. State of California. Dept. of Fish

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All information found in this presentation was
taken from the Bedford St. Martins tutorial on
plagiarism, (http//bcs.bedfordstmartins.com) and
reformatted as a powerpoint created by Mrs. Lori
Rogalski 8/30/05. Last updated 9/6/05. END.