Plagiarism: How Can We Avoid It?

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Plagiarism How Can We Avoid It?

• Strategies for Conducting
• Ethical Research

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What is plagiarism?

• to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of
  another) as one's own
• use (another's production) without crediting
  the source
• to commit literary theft
• present as new and original an idea or product
  derived from an existing source

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So . . . How DO we Avoid Literary Jail?
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Attribute, Attribute, Attribute

• Three ways to use research appropriately in your
  project or writing
• 1 Direct Quote
• 2 Paraphrase along with mention of the
  source and a bibliographic citation.
• 3 Summary along with mention of the
  source and bibliographic citation

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Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper)

• 1 - Direct quote
• ( to use the exact wording from your source, and
  correctly punctuate it with quotation marks)
• When would you use this strategy?

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Men at some times are masters of their fates.
Julius Caesar (I. ii. 140)

• Writers wording is just perfect so you want to
  capture it exactly
• When quoting words from a novel, poem or other
  work

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2 - Paraphrasing
Three Ways to Insert Research into your
paper

• What is paraphrasing?

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Paraphrasing In a few Words

• Paraphrase- (v) to restate written information,
  giving the same meaning in another form. Source
  must be cited.

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What paraphrasing is NOT

• Just changing a few words here and there by
  finding synonyms
• Rearranging the sentences into a different order

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How do we Paraphrase?

• First read the original thoroughly
• Next make sure you understand it reread parts
  on which you are unclear.
• Finally - put it away! Write what you think it
  says without looking at the original article.

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Group Practice
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2 - Paraphrasing
Three Ways to Insert Research into your
paper

• When would you use this strategy?

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• When. . .
• exact wording is too detailed
• the way its worded isnt special
• details of the article are still important

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3 Summarizing What is summarizing?
Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper)
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What is in a Summary?

• Major points from the. . .
• Beginning, the
• Middle, and the
• End
• . . .of the text you are summarizing.
• Always include the . . .
• Main idea
• . . . of the text you are summarizing.

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3 SummarizingWhen would you use this
strategy?
Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper)
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• When you want to relay

• information from a large
• article
• a basic overview of the information you read.
• only the main idea and key points of the
  article, instead of specific details.

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Source Information

• http//www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/2
  0030904thursday.html
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
  quotprsum.html
• Paragraph (Rimer 1).