Avoiding Plagiarism

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Avoiding Plagiarism Academic Dishonesty
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Do these examples contain plagiarism?
Source text Buddha A prince, originally named
Gautama, who lived in India several hundred years
before Jesus. After years of solitary
contemplation, he began to teach a religion of
self-denial universal brotherhood.
Students writing Buddha was an ancient
religious figure. After several years of
solitary contemplation, he began to teach a
religion of self-denial.
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Students writing Buddha was a prince who was
once called Gautama and lived in India s few
centuries before Christ.
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Do these examples contain plagiarism?
Source text Buddha A prince, originally named
Gautama, who lived in India several hundred years
before Jesus. After years of solitary
contemplation, he began to teach a religion of
self-denial universal brotherhood.
Students writing According to the Dictionary of
Cultural Literacy, Buddha taught self-denial and
universal brotherhood.
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Students writing After he became enlightened,
Buddha taught a religion of self-denial and
universal brotherhood (Hirsch, et al. 85).
O
Students writing After years of solitary
contemplation, he began to teach a religion of
self-denial universal brotherhood (Hirsch, et
al. 85).
O
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What is Plagiarism?

• Failure to acknowledge a source for information
  that is not common or personal knowledge
• Failure to acknowledge direct quotation
• Failure to acknowledge a close paraphase of a
  sentence or of the structure of your writing.
• Presenting someone elses work as your own
• Using the same paper for two different courses.

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What is Collusion?

• Allowing someone else to write your paper
• Allowing someone else to edit your paper (that
  is, to alter your paper in a substantive way)

Note This part of my presentation constitutes
plagiarism, since its structure is lifted from
the Scholastic Dishonesty website.
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What happens to plagiarists?
They burn, burn, burn!
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How to cite your sources ( avoid
plagiarism)
(Refer to your Scott, Foresman Handbook (Chapter
37) or to a recent MLA Handbook (copies are
available in the reference sections of the UGL
PCL.)
Internal citations
Either mention the author or work in your
text According to the Dictionary of Cultural
Literacy Or use parenthetical notation Buddha
began to teach a religion of self-denial
(Hirsch, et al. 85).
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How to cite your sources
Works Cited Page
Book citation Evans, Mary Anne. Jane Austin
the Sisterhood of Nineteenth-Century Novelists.
London Oxbridge UP, 2000.
Magazine Citation Cleghorn, Elizabeth. The
Condition of England Question in Victorian
Novels. The Dickensian 102 (Dec 29, 1974)
220-265.
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Internet Citations
Format Author. Title of Individual Page.
Title of Website to Which Page Belongs. Entity
Responsible for Posting Page, Year. ltURLgt (date
of access).
Example Oliphant, Meg. Silly Lady Novelists
Write Back. Collected Writings of M. Oliphant.
U Texas, 1999. http//www.utexas.edu/
Oliphant/Writings/Silly.htm (28 Sept, 2000).