Plagiarism

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Plagiarism

• Problems with
• Citations and
• Research Online

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What is Plagiarism?
buying a paper OR borrowing a paper OR having
someone else write your paper
Deliberate Plagiarism
creative cutting pasting, paraphrasing, OR
not citing your source
Accidental Plagiarism
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http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
plagiar.html
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Online Research Findings

• Internet sources are used more often than
  scholarly resources in papers
• Students prefer electronic resources
• Students are using unreliable sources
• Theres confusion about what to cite and how to
  cite it.
• Theres a gap between what instructors expect and
  students actually use

--http//people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ The
Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation
Behavior
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Research Using the Internet

• The average lifespan of a website is 6 years.
• Everyone has the authority to publish anything on
  the web.
• There are no fact-checkers or editors to question
  objectivity of material.
• There are no web standards to confirm accuracy of
  a site.

There are approximately 3.1 million websites
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Authority, Objectivity Accuracy
http//www.martinlutherking.org/ vs. http//www.th
ekingcenter.com/
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verify your sources
? Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to see whether
a magazine or journal exists Location
Stamford Reference Desk, Call
Number Z6941 .U5, Library
Has39th Edition (2001) ? Encyclopedia of
Associations (Associations Unlimited) to see if
an association exists Internet Source
? Institute for Historical
Review (IHR)
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Judging the Good from the Questionable

• Refer to reputable academic, government,
• or commercial pages UConn, Victorian Web,
  Feminism Literature
• Learn to use the library databases/indexes for
  English and American Literature to find peer
  reviewed, scholarly journals such as MLA or
  InfoTrac
• Evaluate the sites content accuracy,
  objectivity, authority, and currency

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To cite or not to cite?
Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816 in
Thornton, Yorkshire, England.
Fact
Romanticism signified America's only creative
literary period.
Interpretation
Katharine had her moments of despondency. The
glorious past, in which men and women grew to
unexampled size,intruded too much upon the
present, and dwarfed it too consistently.


Quotation ---Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
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Quotations vs. Paraphrasing

• Use quotations around everything that comes
  directly from the text
• Paraphrase, but dont just rearrange rearrange or
  replace a few words
• Quoting and Paraphrasing What Must Be Documented

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Key to Citing Electronic Sources

• Title, Author, Publication Information
• Author or Organization
• URL / Web Page Address
• Date you accessed the site
• Keep a printed copy of the first
• page to document your search

82 of URLs cited lead to the wrong Internet
document
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Paper Mills
...more that 25,000 free papers ..
mills operate on the price per page
49.25?
Topic Emily Dickinson
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Paper Mill Reality

• The average cost for a 10 page paper is probably
  over 84
• Papers are old (1980s)
• Quality is judged to be mediocre or too
  sophisticated
• Papers circulate in many sites
• Most references are either inaccurate or dont
  exist

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7 out of 10 students turn in papers that they
didnt write
Plagiarism Detection Software?
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color- coded indicates plagiarized statements
Detection Software
Links you to original site
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Citation Guides
Plagiarism What it is and How to Avoid It
http//www.lib.uconn.edu/LILT/htmls/together.html
http//www.lib.uconn.edu/LILT/plagiarism.htm Eval
uating Web Sites http//www.lib.uconn.edu/LILT/htm
ls/good.html http//www.lib.uconn.edu/LILT/English
(click Ethical Use of Information) Avoiding
Plagiarism http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/
research/r_plagiar.html
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Documenting Sources

• UConn Library Guides
• MLA Citations http//www.lib.uconn.edu/storrs/MLA
  bibli.PDF
• Other Online Sources
• Standard Documentation Formats
• http//www.utoronto.ca/writing/document.html
• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic
  Sources
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
  docelectric.html

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