Plagiarism and how to avoid it

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Plagiarism and how to avoid it

• Academic integrity and writing
• What is plagiarism?
• Strategies to avoid plagiarism

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Academic integrity writing

• Australian Code for the responsible conduct of
• research (Australian Government 2007) reports
  that
• Responsible research will demonstrate
• appropriate acknowledgement about the role of
  others in the research
• responsible communication of research results
  (p. 1.3)
• Section 4 Publications and dissemination of
  research findings, states that the researcher is
  responsible to cite research publications
  accurately. (p. 4.6)
• Australian Government 2007, Australian Code for
  the responsible conduct of research, viewed 7
  March 2008, lthttp//www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/
  synopses/r39syn.htmgt.

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4.6 Cite the work of other authors fully and
accurately

• Researchers must ensure that they cite other
  relevant work appropriately and accurately when
  disseminating research findings. Use of the work
  of other authors without acknowledgement is
  unethical. (p. 4.2)
• i.e. You MUST reference if you are- quoting
  directly
• - paraphrasing i.e. take the idea and write it in
  your own words
• - summarising an idea.

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An example (dela Cerna 2007, p. 3)

• Quoting
• Child rearing practices in the home and care
  giving practices in non-parental care settings
  are central to this study. Child care workers
  have to take cognizance of culture-specific
  parental belief systems which influence not only
  parental care giving behaviour but developmental
  processes as well (New 1994, p. 70).

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An example (dela Cerna 2007, p. 3)

• Paraphrasing
• Child rearing practices in the home and care
  giving practices in non-parental care settings
  are central to this study. Child care workers
  have to take cognizance of culture-specific
  parental belief systems which influence not only
  parental care giving behaviour but developmental
  processes as well (New 1994, p. 70). Cultural
  norms have an influential input in the
  communication patterns, in the structuring of
  childrens play activities, in the childrens
  role at home, and in their ways of establishing
  peer relationships (Super Harkness 1997, p. 8
  Phillips 1995, p. 2 New 1994, p. 71 Cocking
  1994, p. 394)

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An example (dela Cerna 2007, p. 3)

• Summarising
• Child rearing practices in the home and care
  giving practices in non-parental care settings
  are central to this study. Child care workers
  have to take cognizance of culture-specific
  parental belief systems which influence not only
  parental care giving behaviour but developmental
  processes as well (New 1994, p. 70). Cultural
  norms have an influential input in the
  communication patterns, in the structuring of
  childrens play activities, in the childrens
  role at home, and in their ways of establishing
  peer relationships (Super Harkness 1997, p. 8
  Phillips 1995, p. 2 New 1994, p. 71 Cocking
  1994, p. 394)
• Doherty (1996) explained that positive outcomes
  of substitute care is associated with caregivers
  who understand childrens developmental needs and
  provide activities that support and enhance
  skills development.

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What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism is a specific form and serious act of
  academic misconduct. Plagiarism includes
• direct copying without clearly indicating the
  origin
• using very close paraphrasing without due
  acknowledgment (e.g. word order in sentence is
  the same)
• use of another person's ideas, work or research
  data without acknowledgment
• submitting work that has been written by
  someone else (UniSA 2008)
• UniSA 2008, Appendix 5 Academic integrity in
  research in Academic regulations for Higher
  Degrees by Research, viewed 11 March,
• lthttp//www.unisa.edu.au/policies/policies/resrch/
  res10-regs.asp.gt.

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Using Turnitin-an example (anonymous, used with
permission)

• Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector (DSDV) 62
  and Global State Routing (GSR) 63 are two
  typical proactive routing protocols. Reactive
  routing protocols have been developed to decrease
  the control overhead and reserve the bandwidth.
  In reactive routing protocols, routing
  information is obtained only when needed.

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Using Turnitin (2)

• Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector (DSDV) 62
  and Global State Routing (GSR) 63 are two
  typical proactive routing protocols. Reactive
  routing protocols have been developed to decrease
  the control overhead and reserve the bandwidth.
  In reactive routing protocols, routing
  information is obtained only when needed. In the
  reactive routing, there are
• 45 two main phases, Route Discovery and Route
  Maintenance. When a source node needs to transmit
  packets to a destination to which it does not
  have a valid route, it broadcasts a Route Request
  (RREQ) to

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Using Turnitin (3)

• Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector (two
  typical proactive routing protocols. Reactive
  DSDV) 62 and Global State Routing (GSR) 63
  are routing protocols have been developed to
  decrease the control overhead and reserve the
  bandwidth. In reactive routing protocols, routing
  information is obtained only when needed. In the
  reactive routing, there are
• 45 two main phases, Route Discovery and Route
  Maintenance. When a source node needs to transmit
  packets to a destination to which it does not
  have a valid route, it broadcasts a Route Request
  (RREQ) to
• discover a route. After receiving the RREQ, the
• 7 destination or any node that knows a route
  towards the destination will send back a Route
  Reply (RREP) to the source node. Route
• Maintenance is responsible for detecting broken
  routes, deleting and updating routes. Reactive
  routing protocols are only activated on demand,
  so the routing overhead can be decreased
  significantly.

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Using Turnitin (4) Patchwork writing X

• After a successful registration, the foreign
  agent records the mobile nodes home address in
  its Visitor List, and the home agent records the
• Mobile nodes care-of-address in its Binding
  List. The home agent
• examines the IP Destination Address of all
  arriving datagrams and checks the Binding List.
• If the destination node is away from its home
  network, the
• home agent tunnels the datagrams
• (IP-in-IP encapsulations 22) to the
• nodes currently registered care-of address. The
• care-of address is in the foreign network, where
  the foreign agent will first receive the
• IP-in-IP packet. The
• Foreign agent decapsulates the tunneled packet,
  and forwards it to the mobile node. Thus, the
• 46 mobile node can be always identified via its
  home address, no matter where its point of
  attachment to the
• Internet is. The
• mobile node must periodically re-register with
  its home agent

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Strategies for avoiding plagiarism

• Attend the RESA sessions for necessary details
  practice
• Become familiar with the Codes and policies
  online
• Academic Integrity in Higher Degrees by
  research
• http//www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/academicintegrity
  /research/default.asp
• Learning and Teaching Unit/Doing a Research
  Degree/ Research writing/referencing and
  research ethics
• http//www.unisa.edu.au/ltu/students/research/writ
  ing/referencing.asp
• LTU/Studying at UniSA/Academic Integrity
• http//www.unisa.edu.au/ltu/students/study/integri
  ty.asp
• 3 Try out text comparison software Turnitin
• http//www.unisa.edu.au/unisanethelp/turnitin/defa
  ult.asp