PLAGIARISM

1
PLAGIARISM DONT DO IT!!!
2
Plagiarism What is it?

• Share as many examples of plagiarismas you can
  think of.

3
Plagiarismwhat is it?

• Based on the examples you brainstormed, what is
  your definition of plagiarism?

4

• According to Webster, plagiarism is the act of
  using another person's words or ideas without
  giving credit to that person the act of
  plagiarizing something. In other words, it is
  cheating or deception.

5

• If you attempt to use another person's work as if
  it were your own, without adequate
  acknowledgement of the original source and if
  this is done in work that you submit for a grade
  then you are attempting to deceive your teacher,
  your parents, or anyone reading the paper. In
  other words, plagiarism is cheating and it is
  deceitful in that you are trying to claim the
  credit for something that is not your work.

6
Why is plagiarism wrong?

• If you plagiarize, you are cheating yourself.
  You don't learn to write out your thoughts in
  your own words, and you don't get specific
  feedback geared to your individual needs and
  skills. Plagiarism is dishonest because it
  misrepresents the work of another as your own.
• Unintentional plagiarism is still cheating.

7
Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism

• Use your own words and ideas.
• Give credit for copied, adapted, or paraphrased
  material.
• Avoid using others' work with minor "cosmetic"
  changes.
• Beware of "common knowledge."

8
Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism

• Give credit for copied, adapted, or paraphrased
  material.
• If you repeat another's exact words, you MUST use
  quotation marks and cite the source.
• If you adapt a chart or paraphrase a sentence,
  you must still cite.
• Paraphrase means that you restate the author's
  ideas, meaning, and information in your own words
• WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE.

9
Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism

• Avoid using others' work with minor "cosmetic"
  changes.
• Examples using "less" for "fewer," reversing the
  order of a sentence, changing terms in a computer
  code, or altering a spread sheet layout. If the
  work is essentially the same, give credit.
• WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE.

10
Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism

• Beware of "common knowledge."
• You don't have to cite "common knowledge, BUT
  the fact must really be commonly known. That
  George Washington was the first U.S. president is
  common knowledge That George Washington was
  an expert dancer is not common knowledge
• WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE.

11
Paraphrasing VS. Quoting

• You cite both!
• In general, you should paraphrase more than you
  direct quote.
• Paraphrase when
• what you want from the source is the idea
  expressed, and not the specific language used to
  express it
• you can express in fewer words what the key point
  of a source is

12
Quoting

• you should quote from a source
• to show that an authority supports your point
• to present a position or argument to critique or
  comment on
• to include especially moving or historically
  significant language
• to present a particularly well-stated passage
  whose meaning would be lost or changed if
  paraphrased or summarized
• Quotes should, in general, be no more than 2-4
  lines.

13
Quoting

• In a literary analysis paper, you''ll want to
  quote from the literary text rather than
  summarize, because part of your task in this kind
  of paper is to analyze the specific words and
  phrases an author uses. You also want to provide
  quotes that illustrate your claims.

14
Paraphrase Practice

• The twenties were the years when drinking was
  against the law, and the law was a bad joke
  because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor
  could be had. They were the years when organized
  crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed
  powerless to do anything against it. Classical
  music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout
  the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis
  Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of
  the young. The flapper was born in the twenties,
  and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she
  symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything
  else, America's break with the past. From
  Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide
  (1989) 25.

15

• Paraphrase the previous paragraph based solely on
  what you remember from it.
• When paraphrasing, you should read something
  closely, put it aside, and write the meaning in
  your own words. Do not refer back to the original
  piece.

16
Using Quotes

• Embedding vs. Introducing
• Embedding is more sophisticated and requires that
  you quote less.
• It is important that you should carefully select
  the quotes you want to incorporate into your
  essay, making sure that each direct quote is
  highly relevant to your paragraph's main idea.
  Otherwise, your quoted line will make your
  argument or research weak.

17
Embedded quotes

• Make sure to introduce a quote with some text
  don't just start a quote without introducing it
  or the readers won't be oriented.
• According to some critics, literary fiction "is
  all but dead in the 21st century (Smith 200).

18

• You can also introduce the author's name in the
  text instead of placing it in parentheses at the
  end. Here's another way to do it
• Jones states that, "People who read literary
  fiction are proven to be able to sympathize with
  others more easily (85).
• You can also introduce a quote, cite it, and then
  comment on it a bit like this
• Many people believe that "Sports has no meaning
  whatsoever, while others disagree completely
  (Lane 50).

19

• If you're citing poetry, then you can do so by
  citing the lines that the poem is using, while
  using a "/" to separate the lines, like so
• As Miller states, "There is nothing cuter/than a
  cat sneezing, and many cat lovers would attest
  to this fact (11-12).

20

• Questions?