Avoiding Plagiarism

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Avoiding Plagiarism
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Definition

• According to The Merriam Webster Online
  Dictionary, to plagiarize is to
• steal and pass off (the ideas or words of
  another) as one's own.
• use (another's production) without crediting
  the source.

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Motlows Plagiarism Policy

• Plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of
  academic dishonesty are prohibited. Students
  guilty of academic misconduct, either directly or
  indirectly through participation or assistance,
  are immediately responsible to the instructor of
  the class....The instructor has the authority
  to assign an F or a zero for the exercise or
  examination or to assign an F in the course
  (from Motlows 2008-2009 catalog).
•  

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Consequences of Plagiarism

• Failure
• Suspension or expulsion
• Revocation of degree or award
• Loss of job
• Possible fines and jail time

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Examples of Plagiarism

• Turning in a paper or using parts of a paper that
  you bought, borrowed, downloaded, or copied from
  the Internet.
• Copying the exact words of a source without using
  quotation marks and a citation.
• Summarizing or paraphrasing an idea or
  information from a source without a citation.

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Ways to Prevent Plagiarism

• Keep track of your sources.
• Take careful notes.
• Acknowledge all ideas and information from
  sources unless they are common knowledge.
• When you quote phrases or sentences from your
  sources, make sure your quotes are exact and in
  quotation marks.

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Ways to Prevent Plagiarism

• When you paraphrase and summarize from your
  sources, be sure to use your own words and
  sentence structure but keep the same meaning.
• Cite your sources when you use them in your
  paper.
• List all of your sources at the end of your
  paper.

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MLA Documentation

• Parenthetical Citations
• (Wood 31)
• According to Gordon S. Wood, . . . (31).
• Works Cited Entries
• Author. Title. City Publisher, Date.
• Author. Title of Article. Title of Magazine
  Date Page Numbers.

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Other Documentation Styles

• American Psychological Association (APA) Style
• (Comer , 2007, p. 89)
• Comer, R. J. (2007). Fundamentals
• of abnormal psychology (5th ed.).
• New York Worth.

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Other Documentation Styles

• Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Author-Date System
• (Tindall and Shi 2007, 34)
• Tindall, George Brown, and David Emory Shi.
  2007. America A Narrative History. 7th ed. New
  York Norton.

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Other Documentation Styles

• Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Documentary-Note
  System
• 1. George Brown Tindall and David Shi, America
  A Narrative History, 7th ed. (New York Norton,
  2007), 34.
• Tindall, George Brown, and David Emory
  Shi. America A Narrative History. 7th ed.
  New York Norton, 2007.

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Online Resources

• www.plagiarism.org
• A comprehensive guide to research and
  documentation can be found at http//www.dianahack
  er.com/resdoc/ .
• Guides on Plagiarism
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01
  /.
• http//www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/plagiaris
  m.html
• Tutorials on Plagiarism
• http//www.indiana.edu/istd/
  http//tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism
  /selector.htm.
• http//data.fairfield.edu/library/lib_plagiar
  ism
• court.html.