Liberty High School Plagiarism 101

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Liberty High School Plagiarism 101

• in 9 Quick Steps

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1. What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism is intentionally or unintentionally
  portraying someone elses ideas as your own.
• In other words, if your name is on the paper,
  then your reader (often your teacher) will assume
  the ideas are yours unless you tell him or her
  otherwise.

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1. What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism comes in a few forms
• Word for word
• taking someone elses exact, or nearly exact,
  language and not indicating someone else wrote
  this language
• Paraphrasing
• Summarizing

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1. What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism comes in a few forms
• Word for word
• Paraphrasing
• rewriting someone elses ideas into your own
  words but not giving that author credit for the
  original ideas
• Summarizing

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1. What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism comes in a few forms
• Word for word
• Paraphrasing
• Summarizing
• taking key ideas, concepts, numbers or terms
  someone else developed and not giving that person
  full credit

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1. What is plagiarism?

• Sometimes a teacher asks you to complete an
  assignment using only your own ideas.
• Sometimes your teacher asks you to generate ideas
  based on the knowledge of others.
• Your teacher wants to know what sources form the
  basis of your ideas

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• The point we want to make?
• Give your sources the credit they deserve!

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2. How do I give credit to my sources?

• The most common method in high school for citing
  information is to follow the style of the Modern
  Language Association (MLA).
• You may have a teacher who teaches you another
  style, but for our purposes we will focus on MLA.

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2. How do I give credit to my sources?

• MLA style asks that you cite sources in two
  places.
• In-Text Citations
• Works Cited Page

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2. How do I give credit to my sources?

• In-Text Citations
• Within your paragraph you need to tell your
  reader the author of the idea and the page on
  which the idea is located (if available). If
  there is no author, then you need to use the
  title.
• You can work this information into your text
  On page 47, Jacob Mallin argues, or you can
  place it in parentheses (Mallin 47) after you
  give the information.

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2. How do I give credit to my sources?

• 2. Works Cited Page
• After finishing your paper include a page that
  lists, in alphabetical order, a full citation for
  every source you used in your paper. Here is how
  one citation looks
• Mallin, Jacob. I Love Writing Research Papers.
  Renton, WA University of Smart People, 2009.

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2. How do I give credit to my sources?

• Then what is a bibliography?
• A bibliography is a list of citations of every
  source you used AND every source you consulted
  but did not directly use in your paper (this may
  differ for styles other than MLA just follow
  your teachers lead).

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3. What do I have to cite?

• Quotations
• This is the most obvious. If you take someones
  idea word for word, place quotations around it
  (or block it if it is long), and let the reader
  know the sources name and the page where you
  found it.
• Paraphrases
• Summaries
• References
• Statistics/Lists/Charts/Maps/Images/Etc.

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3. What do I have to cite?

• Quotations
• Paraphrases
• Paraphrasing is taking someone elses words and
  putting them into your own. Often the length of
  what you write is similar to the original. You
  need to cite paraphrases.
• Note changing the order of phrases or swapping
  words with synonyms is NOT paraphrasing. This is
  plagiarism because you are essentially using
  someone elses writing but not even using
  quotation marks.
• Summaries
• References
• Statistics/Lists/Charts/Maps/Images/Etc.

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3. What do I have to cite?

• Quotations
• Paraphrases
• Summaries
• A summary captures the main ideas or concepts of
  anothers work. A summary is typically much
  shorter than the original, but it is still
  someone elses idea. You need to cite summaries.
• References
• Statistics/Lists/Charts/Maps/Images/Etc.

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3. What do I have to cite?

• Quotations
• Paraphrases
• Summaries
• References
• Sometimes you will just refer to an authors
  ideas in a few words or phrases. So that your
  reader can locate the information or author you
  reference, you need to cite references.
• Statistics/Lists/Charts/Maps/Images/Etc.

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3. What do I have to cite?

• Quotations
• Paraphrases
• Summaries
• References
• Statistics/Lists/Charts/Maps/Images/Etc.
• Even if the information includes only one
  number, someone had to research and analyze a lot
  of information to arrive at that number. Give
  that person credit.

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4. What do I NOT have to cite?

• Your own ideas
• Common knowledge

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4. What do I NOT have to cite?

• The Writing Center at the University of North
  Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a great guideline
• In order to decide if the material you want to
  use in your paper constitutes common
  knowledge, you may find it helpful to ask
  yourself the following questions
• ? Did I know this information before I
  started researching/learning about this topic?
• ? Did this information/idea come from my own
  brain?
• If you answer no to either or both of these
  questions, then the information is not common
  knowledge to you (Plagiarism 2).

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4. What do I NOT have to cite?

• When in doubt,
• cite the source!

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Students plagiarized text
• President Theodore Roosevelts daughter, Alice,
  was known to be a strong-willed child. In fact,
  one day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.
• Whats wrong?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

• The student gives no credit to the author. How
  it should read
• President Theodore Roosevelts daughter, Alice,
  was known to be a strong-willed child. In fact,
  according to historian Paul F. Boller, Jr., One
  day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both (206).

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Students plagiarized text
• President Theodore Roosevelts daughter, Alice,
  was known to be a strong-willed child. One day
  while a friend was visiting Theodore Roosevelt
  in the White House, TRs young daughter Alice
  kept popping in and out of the office
  interrupting them. Theodore, the friend finally
  complained, isnt there anything you can do
  about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both. (Boller 206).
• Whats wrong?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• The student doesnt indicate this is a
  quotation. How it should read
• President Theodore Roosevelts daughter, Alice,
  was known to be a strong-willed child. One day
  while a friend was visiting Theodore Roosevelt
  in the White House, TRs young daughter Alice
  kept popping in and out of the office
  interrupting them. Theodore, the friend finally
  complained, isnt there anything you can do
  about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both. (Boller 206).

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Students plagiarized text
• President Theodore Roosevelts daughter, Alice,
  was known to be a strong-willed child. One time
  when a friend was hanging out with Roosevelt in
  the White House, TRs little daughter Alice kept
  running in and out of the office bothering them.
  Theodore, the friend finally complained, isnt
  there anything you can do about Alice? Said TR
  firmly I can do one of two things. I can be
  President of the United States or I can control
  Alice. I cannot possibly do both. (Boller 206).
• Whats wrong?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• The student formats this like it is a
  paraphrase, but it is not.
• President Theodore Roosevelts daughter, Alice,
  was known to be a strong-willed child. One time
  when a friend was hanging out with Roosevelt in
  the White House, TRs little daughter Alice kept
  running in and out of the office bothering them.
  Theodore, the friend finally complained, isnt
  there anything you can do about Alice? Said TR
  firmly I can do one of two things. I can be
  President of the United States or I can control
  Alice. I cannot possibly do both. (Boller 206).

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Students plagiarized text
• President Theodore Roosevelt had a real soft
  spot for his daughter, Alice, and rarely
  disciplined her. In fact, one time, while the
  family lived at the White House, she was so rude
  in her continual interruptions of a conversation
  between her father and his friend that the friend
  had to ask Roosevelt to control Alice. Roosevelt
  explained he did not have enough energy to
  control Alice and run the country he had to
  choose one or the other.
• Whats wrong?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• This is a good paraphrase, but it does not give
  the author credit.
• President Theodore Roosevelt had a real soft
  spot for his daughter, Alice, and rarely
  disciplined her. In fact, one time, while the
  family lived at the White House, she was so rude
  in her continual interruptions of a conversation
  between her father and his friend that the friend
  had to ask Roosevelt to control Alice. Roosevelt
  explained he did not have enough energy to
  control Alice and run the country he had to
  choose one or the other (Boller 206).

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by
  Paul F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

• Students plagiarized text
• Theodore Roosevelt was not strict with his
  daughter. In fact, sometimes friends would ask
  him to control Alice, but Roosevelt said he could
  not.
• Whats wrong?

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5. What are some examples of plagiarism?

• Original text from Presidential Anecdotes by Paul
  F. Boller, Jr., page 206
• One day while a friend was visiting Theodore
  Roosevelt in the White House, TRs young
  daughter Alice kept popping in and out of the
  office interrupting them. Theodore, the friend
  finally complained, isnt there anything you can
  do about Alice? Said TR firmly I can do one of
  two things. I can be President of the United
  States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly
  do both.

• The student references a fact regarding Theodore
  Roosevelt, but leaves the reader wondering where
  he or she got this information. It needs a
  citation.
• Theodore Roosevelt was not strict with his
  daughter. In fact, sometimes friends would ask
  him to control Alice, but Roosevelt said he could
  not (Boller 206).

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6. What Happens if I plagiarize?

• The Liberty High School Student Handbook is
  clear. See your handbook for the details, but the
  consequences of plagiarism may include losing
  credit on the assignment, losing credit for the
  entire class, or being suspended from school.

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7. How can I avoid plagiarizing?

• When in doubt, cite the source

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7. How can I avoid plagiarizing?

• 2. Make sure your notes clearly indicate when you
  have quoted a source and when you have
  paraphrased.

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7. How can I avoid plagiarizing?

• 3. Make yourself paraphrase and summarize ideas
  as you take notes save the quotations for the
  really good stuff.

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7. How can I avoid plagiarizing?

• 4. While paraphrasing, close the book or minimize
  the screen so you are not tempted to use the
  authors words.

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7. How can I avoid plagiarizing?

• 5. Use reliable sources. Unfortunately, a lot of
  what is on the internet is plagiarized. Dont get
  sucked into the abyss.

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7. How can I avoid plagiarizing?

• 6. Check with your teacher BEFORE the assignment
  is due (and within enough time to make necessary
  changes) if you have doubts.

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8. To Summarize

• Plagiarism is intentionally or unintentionally
  using someone elses ideas but presenting them as
  your own.
• Ideas quoted, paraphrased, summarized or
  referenced need to be cited.
• When in doubt, cite it!

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9. Show what you know!

• Two assessments of your knowledge
• 1. Take the Plagiarism Quiz
• 2. Submit a paraphrase to turnitin.com

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9. Show what you know!

• Take the Plagiarism Quiz
• Go to http//www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.p
  hp?titlelhs-plagiarism-101 and answer the
  questions. Use your first initial and last name
  to sign in.
• A perfect score is required to pass the quiz.
  Print your certificate once you earn a perfect
  score.
• You may refer to this PowerPoint as you take the
  quiz.

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9. Show what you know!

• 2. Submit a paraphrase to turnitin.com
• Using the source your teacher provides
• Paraphrase the source in a Word document.
• Submit the your paraphrase, with the proper
  citation, to turnitin.com.
• Check your originality report to see if you wrote
  a paraphrase that does not plagiarize.

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Works Cited

• Plagiarism. Oct. 2007. The Writing Center,
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 18
  Mar. 2009 lthttp//www.unc.edu/depts/
  wcweb/handouts/plagiarism.htmlgt.

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Bibliography

• MLA Formatting and Style Guide. 10 May 2008.
  The Online Writing Lab at Purdue, Purdue
  University. 18 Mar. 2009 lthttp//owl.english.purdu
  e.edu/owl/resource/557/01/gt.
• Plagiarism. Oct. 2007. The Writing Center,
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 18
  Mar. 2009 lthttp//www.unc.edu/depts/
  wcweb/handouts/plagiarism.htmlgt.

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