Research, Citations

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• Research, Citations Plagiarism

Shelley RosemanJeremy Richard Library UConn
Stamford
Survey http//www.lib.uconn.edu/campuses/stamfor
d/using/instruction/PlagiarismSurvey2.htm
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UConn Student and Plagiarism

• Nearly 30 of responding students
  admitted to having knowingly plagiarized at
  least once.
• Nearly 43 of responding students
• admitted to unknowingly plagiarizing at
  least once.

As cited in a report from the Scholastic
Standards Committees Ad hoc Committee on
Plagiarism at the University of Connecticut ,
Deterring Plagiarism at UConn, page 4.
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DATA
Surveys on other campuses consistently show that
plagiarism is rising among college
students Students who admitted to cutting
pasting directly from the Internet without
attribution 1991 2001
10 41
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WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?
Accidental Plagiarism
Deliberate Plagiarism

• Rewriting from books or articles
• copying pasting from web pages and online
  sources to create a patchwork writing
• buying, downloading, or borrowing a paper

• not knowing when how to cite
• not knowing how to paraphrase or summarize
• not knowing what common knowledge is
• recycling an old paper

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Causes of Plagiarism

• Everyone is doing it
• Whos going to know?
• The paper is due tomorrow!
• Im a lousy writer.
• Whats MLA?

http//www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/interactions/vol4no2/
evans.htm
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• HOW DO YOU AVOID IT?

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Parts of a Citation
Keep Track of Your Sources
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Step One Keep Track of Quotations

• Though her work is filled with "conflict,
  frustration, grief, pain, and fear... , the mood
  is seldom morbid or bitterly melancholy."
• Quote Carson McCullers Contemporary Authors
  Online, Thomson Gale, 2005. Gale Database
  Contemporary Authors Online

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Keep Track of Statistics
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS 900,000
(2001 est.)
CIA FACT BOOK
Ethnic groups white 77.1, black 12.9, Asian
4.2
From http//www.geoplace.com/hottopics/CIAwfb/fac
tbook/geos/us.htmlsOURCE
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From Issues Controversies
Keep Track of Data from Graphs, Charts and Polls
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From CQ Researcher
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WEB CITATION
Web Sites Need to Be Cited
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title
Date you visited
The Benthic Marine Algal Herbarium of Long Island
Sound Digital Collection. 13 Sept.
2004.  University of Connecticut Libraries
and the Northeast Algal Society. 13 June
2005 lthttp//www.algae.uconn.edu/gt.
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address (URL)
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MLA Citation Book
Works Cited
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MLA CITATION
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WORKS CITED?
MLA Citation Style
A TWO-STEP PROCESS in which you give credit to
the sources you use, quote, paraphrase,
summarize, and refer to in any paper you write.

• Create In-text citation (Parenthetical)
• Include the citation in your Works Cited

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To cite or not to cite?
www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/images/IPC-painting-I...
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Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40
countries. Tobacco contains nicotine, an
alkaloid that is addictive. Racism was at the
heart of North American slavery. About
one-fourth of the American population meets the
definition of obesity. Shakespeare occupies a
position unique in world literature.
Common Knowledge?

• Source
• Britannica.Com

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Paraphrasing or Plagiarism?

It was psychologically impossible
for Southern plantation owners to have black men
in the army during the Civil War. An armed black
man often symbolized a potential slave uprising
Example from http//dianahacker.com/writersref
/flash/rs_flash/hackrs01.asp?session9158091373124
731namegroup
According to historian Dudley Taylor Cornish,


(158).
From page 158 of The Sable Arm by Dudley Taylor
Cornish.
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P A R A P H R A S I N G?
Most of the extra body fat that Americans carry
and the increasing incidence of Type 2
(adult-onset) diabetes - is the result of
consuming too many carbohydrates and snacking in
the evening.
Our nations problems with weight and health have
much too do with our eating patterns and
lifestyle. A typical Friday night for many of us
consists of eating three to four slices of pizza
and then collapsing in front of the television
with a bowl of chips. (Fallacy of Fad Diets).
the extra body fat
that Americans carry and the
incidence of Type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes
is the result of too
carbohydrates and

in the evening.
A great deal of
rising
taking in
eating too many snacks
Source Harvard Women's Health Watch, Nov 1,
1998 v6 i3 The Fallacy of Fad Diets. From
InfoTrac
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Paraphrasing Techniques

• Change the sentence structure by using a
  phrase with words that reflect your own
  voice.
• Credit the author.
• Dickinson expresses
• Frost suggests
• Hemingway states
• According to Wolf
• Record the source for any ideas that you did
  not come up with.

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FREE PAPERS?

• The average cost for a 10 page paper is over 80
• Papers are generally older with dated or invented
  citations
• Quality is questionable, either sloppy, juvenile
  or highly sophisticated
• Papers circulate in many sites, so there could be
  multiple copies handed in for the same
  assignment!

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readers tend not to cheat and cheaters tend not
to read www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/interactions/vol4no2
/evans.htm
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WHY CITE?
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REASON 1 IT LOOKS GOOD
Professors will expect a "Works Cited" or
"Bibliography" page at the end of a research
paper. This page lists the articles, books, and
other resources used while writing the paper.
Plus, it shows the work youve put into writing
and researching your paper.
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REASON 2YOURE BEING COURTEOUS TO YOUR READERS..
Academic writing is based on the writing of
others Your citations identify how you came up
with your ideas so others can follow the trail
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REASONS 3 4ETHICS PLAGIARISM

• Not giving credit for your sources islike
  robbing the authors of the original workits
  denying them the recognition they deserve for
  their work
• (you are also lying to your reader by claiming
  other peoples work as your own)

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What Do I Have to Cite?

• Books
• Articles
• Music
• Web Sites
• Email Messages
• Interviews
• Group Projects

When in doubt, CITE! (you cant get in
trouble for citing too much)
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TIPS FOR AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

• keep careful notes (writers often forget where
  the information came from)
• plan your research in advance to lessen the
  pressure
• cite all the information youve taken from
  sources, whether quoted verbatim or summarized
  electronic or in print
• keep stylebooks /guides close by and
• bookmark citation websites

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TOOLS TO HELP YOU OUT

• ASSIGNMENT CALCULATOR http//www.lib.umn.edu/help/
  calculator/
• INTERACTIVE SITE FOR CREATING CITATIONShttp//c
  itationmachine.net/
• KNIGHTCITE
• http//webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/
• CITING SOURCES
• http//www.lib.uconn.edu/using/tutorials/instructi
  on/citing.html
• RESEARCH 101
• http//www.lib.uconn.edu/using/tutorials/research/
  HTML/Finding/finding01.htm