Researching the Internet and Plagiarism

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Researching the Internet and Plagiarism
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When you are given a research project, where is
the first place you look for your information?
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Typical Search Engines
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Hits on Keywords Dog Breeding
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Google Yahoo MSN
hits per million
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Other Search Engines

• Meta search engines- search multiple engines at
  once

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Meta Search Engine Comparison
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0 Mamma Dogpile Metacrawler
Total number of hits
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Wiki

• What is a Wiki?
• A collection of websites of hypertext, each of
  them can be visited and edited by anyone
• Popular wikis-
• wikipedia

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How do I know what information to use?

• Evaluating tools
• Comparison of information
• Knowledge of domain

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Knowledge of Domain

• Know the meaning of the domain destination
• .com commercial, hosted by a company
• .org non-profit organization
• .mil military branch of the government
• .net usually an internet service provider
• .gov government website
• .edu educational institution
• Information from .com or .org frequently have a
  bias in their information.
• Information found on .edu and .gov will probably
  be the most reliable.

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Comparison Information

• Provide your students with reliable sites to
  compare their information.
• Education Index
• Librarians Index to the Internet
• World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Subscription Databases

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Why cant I just copy and paste from the internet?

• Plagiarism is when you use someone elses words
  or ideas and pass them off as your own (Izenberg)
  

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What can I do to keep from plagiarizing?

• Take good notes you will need the title,
  author, date, page , etc.
• Quote
• Paraphrase
• Include your own thoughts and words

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Quoting

• When you use the words exactly as the author said
  them, you have to put the words in quotes and
  identify who said it.
• Example
• Books like Twilight and Harry Potter are great
  books. According to Lehman, Even though
  Twilight is a long book, readers of all kinds are
  picking it up and reading it (110).

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Paraphrasing

• Putting someone elses ideas in your own words.
• Changing a few words does not mean you
  paraphrased.
• Still requires a citation
• Examples

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Paraphrasing continued

• What does it look like?
• Twilight and Harry Potter are great books. The
  length of Twilight has not stopped readers from
  picking it up (Lehman 110).

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Where can I go to get help on my work cited page?

• Son of the citation machine
• OWL online style guide

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Works Cited

• Izenberg, Neil. "What is Plagiarism." KidsHealth.
  12 May 2008. KidsHealth. 10
• Mar 2009lthttp//kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school
  /plagiarism.htmlgt.
• Lehman, Josh. "The Twilight Phenomenon."
  Booklinks 7(2008) 110-114.

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Website Evaluation

• Who is the author, contact information, link to
  homepage?
• When was the site created and last updated?
• How extensive is the information that is covered?
• Are there links to other useful/reliable
  websites?
• What is the purpose of the site? Persuade?
  Educate? Market a product?
• Are there any biases?
• Are there citations/credit given for all sources
  mentioned?
• Are there errors on the page?
• Have you checked other sources for accuracy of
  the information?