No Plagiarism Clear Advice for Scholars and Students

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No Plagiarism!Clear Advice for Scholars and
Students

• Karen Klomparens, Dean
• MSU Graduate School

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Why not plagiarize?

• YOUR OWN WORDS AND IDEAS ARE IMPORTANT, as a
  scholar you need to create your own ideas and
  words!
• Your graduate program, and especially a research
  paper, thesis or dissertation is your
  contribution to knowledge. It must be original
  (new), although it builds on the work of others.

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Defining Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is stealing by using another persons
  words or ideas.
• Plagiarism is academically dishonest.
• Plagiarism is not accepted in intellectual work.
• Plagiarism can/will result in penalties.

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Possible penalties

• Faculty are responsible for maintaining academic
  integrity.no plagiarism!
• Failing grade for an assignment
• Failing grade for a course
• Dismissal from the graduate program

Plagiarism is easy to find! Dont do it!
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Definitions (cont.)

• Plagiarism is the use or close imitation of
  the language and thoughts of another author, and
  the representation of them as one's own original
  work 1.

From http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

(retrieved 7/5/09)
1 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged
Dictionary
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What is Plagiarism?

• Plagiarism the uncredited (no quotation marks,
  no reference) use (both intentional and
  unintentional) of somebody else's words or ideas
  2.
• Copying large sections of text from a source
  without quotation marks or proper citation.
• Sources can be books, journal articles,
  newspapers, and other print media AND THE
  INTERNET!
• If you use someone elses words, you MUST give
  them credit to honor their thinking and words.

2 http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/58
9/01/
(retrieved 7/5/09)
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Example

• Original work
• Academic excellence comes through recognition by
  one's peers. Some new and innovative ideas have
  the potential for generating widespread
  professional interest and credit in the area of
  their scholarship for purely academic reasons.
  Others have the potential for generating
  substantial commercial interest and financial
  gain. Either can be motivation to stretch and
  even exceed acceptable standards of conduct in
  how scholarship is conducted.
• 
  From http//grad.msu.edu/all/respconduct.htm
  (retrieved7/6/09)
• Work done by a student after reading the original
  work
• Recognition of your research and writing by
  other faculty and students demonstrates
  excellence. Some new research or scholarship can
  create great interest among your professional
  colleagues and credit as a contribution to
  knowledge. Others have the potential for
  generating substantial commercial interest and
  financial gain. Either of these outcomes could
  encourage a person to conduct research in a way
  that is not responsible.

IS THERE PLAGIARISM in the work done by the
student?
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Example

• Original work
• Academic excellence comes through recognition by
  one's peers. Some new and innovative ideas have
  the potential for generating widespread
  professional interest and credit in the area of
  their scholarship for purely academic reasons.
  Others have the potential for generating
  substantial commercial interest and financial
  gain. Either can be motivation to stretch and
  even exceed acceptable standards of conduct in
  how scholarship is conducted.
• 
  (From http//grad.msu.edu/all/respconduct.
  htm retrieved 7/6/09)
• Work done by a student after reading the original
  work
• Recognition of your research and writing by
  other faculty and students demonstrates
  excellence. Some new research or scholarship can
  create great interest among your professional
  colleagues and credit as a contribution to
  knowledge. Others have the potential for
  generating substantial commercial interest and
  financial gain. Either of these outcomes could
  encourage a person to conduct research in a way
  that is not responsible.

IS THERE PLAGIARISM in the work done by the
student? YES! One sentence was copied word for
word with no quote marks and no reference.
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To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit
whenever you use

• Another persons idea, opinion, or theory
• Any facts, statistics, graphs, drawingsany
  pieces of informationthat are not common
  knowledge
• Quotations of another persons actual spoken or
  written words or
• Paraphrase of another persons spoken or written
  words.
• From http//www.indiana.edu/wts/pamphlets/plag
  iarism.shtml (retrieved 7/5/09)

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How to avoid plagiarism

• When you take notes or copy phrases or words,
  NOTE THE SOURCE. Put direct quotes (taking every
  word in a sentence or sentences) in your notes.
• Put the citation (where you got the words) in
  your notes.
• Learn how to paraphrase properly (summarize and
  synthesize).

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Quotations

• Put in quotation marks everything that comes
  directly from the text, especially when taking
  notes.
• Quotation using someones exact words. Put all
  the exact words you use in quotation marks.
  Reference the source.
• From http//www.indiana.edu/wts/pamphlets/plagia
  rism.shtml (retrieved 7/5/09)

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Paraphrase

• Paraphrase using someones ideas or words, but
  putting them in your own words. Although you use
  your own words to paraphrase, you must still
  acknowledge the source of the information.
• A paraphrase is not a direct quotebut a summary
  of an idea in your own words. Sometimes a
  synthesis or restatement of several works, after
  you think about it.
• http//www.indiana.edu/wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.s
  html (retrieved 7/5/09)

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Learn to paraphrase

• Read the paragraph or page.
• Write down the main ideas in a list.
• If you use exact words in a phrase, or a whole
  sentence, use quotation marks.
• Try to write a sentence in your own words that
  helps you understand the paragraph or page. What
  2 or 3 important points do you want to remember
  from those words?

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Learn to paraphrase

• Each graduate student admitted to a
  doctoral program has the responsibility to form a
  guidance committee with the approval and the
  assistance of the department or school
  chairperson or director or designated
  representative. The guidance committee will
  consist of at least four MSU regular faculty at
  least three of whom, including the committee
  chairperson, possess an earned doctoral degree.
  ..The regular faculty of MSU shall consist of all
  persons appointed under the rules of tenure and
  holding the rank of professor, associate
  professor, assistant professor. 3
• 3 The MSU Academic Programs Catalog, 2007-09.
  Page 64. OR
• http//www.reg.msu.edu/AcademicPrograms/Text.asp?S
  ection111s394 (retrieved 7/5/09)

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Summary NO PlagiarismHow to avoid it

• Take careful notes as you read.
• If you use someone elses words, even from
  the internet, quote them AND cite them (add
  a reference).
• Paraphrase (summarize) in your own words.
• Plan ahead so you have time to read and think
  before writing a paper.

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Summary NO PlagiarismHow to avoid it

• If you work with other people on a project, you
  must be very careful that each of you write up
  your own report, with no sentences copied from
  each other.
• Consider writing a paper in your native language,
  and then translating it.
• Ask your advisor or teacher for help and advice.
• Ask the MSU Writing Center for help and advice.
• http//writing.msu.edu/
• Ask someone at the Library for help and advice.
• REMEMBER YOUR OWN WORDS ARE IMPORTANT, as a
  scholar you need to create and write your own
  ideas and words!