Plagiarism

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Plagiarism Literature 112W/221
Doing Library Research

• http//www.lib.uconn.edu/sroseman/SRliaison.html

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What is Plagiarism?
Deliberate Plagiarism
buying a paper OR borrowing a paper OR having
someone else write your paper
creative cutting pasting, paraphrasing, OR
not citing your source
Accidental Plagiarism
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http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
plagiar.html
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Online Research Findings

• Theres a gap between what instructors expect and
  students actually use
• Theres confusion about what to cite and how to
  cite it
• Internet sources are used more often than
  scholarly resources in papers

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--http//people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ The
Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation
Behavior
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Primary vs. Secondary Sources

• Secondary
• analysis of the work
• review of a particular genre
• article or essay about the work
• biography of the author
• print or electronic reference sources

• Primary
• an original work
• poem
• short story
• art work
• video

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To cite or not to cite?

Hamlet is the source for To be or not to be.
Fact/Common Knowledge
Quote

Shakespeares characters range from noble to
violent and disgusting, confused to utterly
certain, lewd to virginal, fanatical to
aesthetic, crippled to gargantuan.

Granta, Autumn 1997 n59 p251(4) A note on
Shakespeare. (William Shakespeare)(France The
Outsider) Harold Pinter.
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When Combining Facts Ideas
Think about what common knowledge
is Paraphrasing vs. rearranging words
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Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing has to do with the sequence of
ideas, the arrangement of material, the pattern
of thought Quoting and Paraphrasing What Must
Be Documented
Use your own words when you paraphrase, dont
just move things around
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Because . Since
child care facilities... facilities
for child care
and ... also
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Avoiding Plagiarism
Original Text "The journal begins, naturally,
as a particularized account of the events in
Crusoe's daily life" (McFarlane 261).
Plagiarism Crusoe's journal begins as a
particularized account of the events in his daily
life. Correctly quoted As McFarlane points out,
the early pages are "a particularized account of
the events in Crusoe's daily life" (261).
Correctly paraphrased McFarlane points out that
early pages of Crusoe's journal describe his life
in detail (261).
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Working with quotations

• Follow the MLA Guidelines
• Quotations with fewer than five lines in your
  paper should be set off with quotation marks
  
• Do enough background reading to learn what
  common knowledge is

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Research Using the Internet

• The average lifespan of a website is 6 years.
• Everyone has the authority to publish anything on
  the web.
• There are no fact-checkers or editors to question
  objectivity of material.
• There are no web standards to confirm accuracy of
  a site.

There are approximately 3.1 million websites
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Key to Citing Electronic Sources

• Basic Title, Author, Publication Information
• Author or Organization
• Date of Last Update
• URL / Web Page Address
• Date of Access
• Keep a printed copy of the first
• page to document your search

82 of URLs cited lead to the wrong Internet
document
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Paper Mills
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Topic Shakespeare
paper mills operate on the price per page
philosophy
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Paper Mills Reality

• The average cost for a 10
• page paper is over 84
• Papers are old (1982)
• Quality is judged mediocre
• Papers circulate
• in many sites
• Most references are either inaccurate or dont
  exist

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Helpful Sites
Standard Documentation Formats http//www.utoront
o.ca/writing/document.html On-line Resources for
Documenting Electronic Sources http//owl.english.
purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html U
Conn Library Guides MLA Citations http//www.lib.
uconn.edu/storrs/MLAbibli.PDF
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