Plagiarism

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Plagiarism

• Using others ideas words without clearly
  acknowledging the source of that information
• Why do we care?
• Its ethical
• Its the law
• Intellectual theft/artistic intellectual
  ownership
• People need to be able to trace your research
• NOTES

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Notes for Slide 1
Derived from the Latin word plagiarius
(kidnapper) Nearly all research builds on
previous research. Researchers commonly begin a
project by studying past work in the area and
deriving relevant information and ideas from
their predecessors. This process is largely
responsible for the continual expansion of human
knowledge. In presenting their work, researchers
generously acknowledge their debts to
predecessors by carefully documenting each
source, so that earlier contributions receive
appropriate credit. As you prepare your paper,
you should similarly seek to build on the work of
previous writers and researchers. And whenever
you draw on anothers work, you must also
document your source by indicating what you
borrowedwhether facts, opinions, or
quotationsand where you borrowed it from. MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Fifth
Edition, p. 114
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Plagiarism

• To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit
  whenever you use
• Another persons ideas, opinion or theory
• Any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings,
  photographs
• Any pieces of information that are not common
  knowledge
• Quotations of another persons actual spoken or
  written words
• Paraphrase of another persons spoken or written
  words

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Plagiarism

• Using another persons phrases or sentences
  without putting quotation marks around them or
  providing a parenthetical citation is considered
  plagiarism even if you cite the source in your
  Works Cited!

• Copying something over and changing every couple
  of words is not paraphrasing. It is plagiarism.

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Paraphrasing

• If you write the following sentence without any
  documentation, you have committed plagiarism
• Emily Dickinson strongly believed that we cannot
  understand life fully unless we also comprehend
  death.
• Correct
• As Wendy Martin has suggested, Emily Dickinson
  strongly believed that we cannot understand life
  fully unless we also comprehend death (625).

• Original material (Martin, Wendy. Emily
  Dickinson. Columbia Literary History of the
  United States. Emory Elliott, gen. Ed. New York
  Columbia UP, 1988. 609-26.
• Some of Dickinsons most powerful poems express
  her firmly held conviction that life cannot be
  fully comprehended without an understanding of
  death.

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MLA Style
In MLA style, you acknowledge your sources by
keying brief parenthetical citations in your text
to an alphabetical list of works that appears at
the end of the paper. Example in your
paper Ancient writers attributed the invention
of the monochord to Pythagoras, who lived in the
sixth century BC (Marcuse 197). In your Works
Cited list Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical
Instruments. New York Harper, 1975. NOTES
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Notes for Slide 6

• A parenthetical citation in MLA style contains
  only enough information to enable readers to find
  the source in the works cited list. If the
  authors name is mentioned in the text, only the
  page number appears in the citation. If more than
  one work by the author is in the list of works
  cited, a shortened version of the titles is given
  as in this example.
• References in the text must clearly point to
  specific sources in the list of works cited.
• Identify the location of the borrowed information
  as specifically as possible. Give the relevant
  page number(s) in the parenthetical reference.
• Keep parenthetical references as brief and as few
  as clarity and accuracy permit.
• Place the parenthetical reference where a pause
  would naturally occur (preferably at the end of a
  sentence), as near as possible to the material
  documented.
• When your bibliography lists only work by the
  author cited, you need give only the author's
  last name and page number(s) (Patterson 193-85).
  
• If the work is listed by title in the
  bibliography, use the title and page number(s) in
  your parenthetical documentation.
• Although the list of works cited appears at the
  end of your paper, you need to draft the section
  in advance so that you will know what information
  to give in parenthetical references as you
  write.--- Key brief parenthetical citations in
  your text to your alphabetical list of works
  cited.--- References in the text must clearly
  point to specific sources in the list of works
  cited.--- Identify the location of the borrowed
  information as specifically as possible. Give the
  relevant page number(s) in the parenthetical
  reference.--- Keep parenthetical references as
  brief and as few as clarity and accuracy
  permit.--- Place the parenthetical reference
  where a pause would naturally occur (preferably
  at the end of a sentence), as near as possible to
  the material documented.--- When your works
  cited lists only one work by an author, you give
  only the author's last name and page number(s) in
  the parenthetical citation (Patterson
  193-85). --- If more than one work by an author
  is in the list of works cited, a shortened
  version of the title is also included in the
  parenthetical documentation.--- If the work is
  listed by title in the works cited list, use the
  title and page number(s) in your parenthetical
  documentation.--- If the author's name is
  mentioned in the text of your work, only the page
  number appears in the citation.

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Works Cited List
Although the list of works cited appears at the
end of your paper, you need to draft the section
in advance, so that you will know what
information to give in parenthetical references
as you write. Works cited examples sheet is
available on the librarys web site. Use copy and
paste for speed and accuracy. Be sure to review
the formatting hints. NOTES
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Notes for Slides 8
--- Double-space between successive lines of an
entry and between entries.--- Begin the first
line of an entry flush left and indent successive
lines ½". (Microsoft Word will
do this easily with the
hanging indent option. (Go to format paragraph,
indents and spacing, indentation, then open the
more options arrow under special.)--- List
entries in alphabetical order according to the
first word in the citation. --- Drop any initial
article (e.g. "A", "The", "An").--- If no author
is given, start the citation with the title.---
Separate author, title, and publication
information with a period followed by one
space. --- Do not number a Works Cited list.---
Paginate the bibliography as a continuation of
your text.
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Annotated List of Works Cited
An annotated bibliography, also called Annotated
List of Works Cited, contains descriptive or
evaluative comments on the sources. Example Thomps
on, Stith. The Folktale. New York Dryden, 1946.
A comprehensive survey of the most popular
folktales, including their histories and their
uses in literary works.
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Friendly Reminders

• Do not number a works cited list.
• Do alphabetize your works cited list.
• Double-space hanging indent
• Librarians will proofread if you ask in a polite,
  timely fashion!
• Dont be afraid to ask for help or guidance.
• Give credit where credit is due.
• Source Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers
  of Research Papers Fifth Ed. New York The
  Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
• By Ann Sciuto, Campbell Hall. December 2002.