Plagiarism: Definition

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Plagiarism Definition

• The unacknowledged use of somebody elses words
  or ideas.

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• REMEMBER PLAGIARISM IS CHEATINGONCE YOUR
  TEACHER SEES YOU AS A CHEATER, IT WILL BE VERY
  HARD TO CHANGE THIS IMAGE OF YOU!

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• When to give Credit

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• When you are using or referring to somebody
  elses words or ideas from a magazine, book,
  newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page,
  computer program, letter, advertisement, or any
  other medium.

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• When you use information gained through
  interviewing another person

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• When you copy the exact words or a unique
  phrase from somewhere

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• When you reprint diagrams, illustrations, charts,
  and pictures

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• When you use ideas that others have given you in
  conversations or over email

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• What you should do during the writing process

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• Mark everything that is someone elses words with
  big Q (for quote) or with big quotation marks.
• Indicate in your notes which ideas are taken from
  sources (S ) and which are your own insights (ME).

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• When paraphrasing (putting it in your own words),
  write your paraphrase and summary without looking
  at the original text rely only on your memory.
• Check your version with the original for content,
  accuracy, and mistakenly borrowed phrases.

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Paraphrasing Donts

• Do not just change around a few words and phrases
  or change the order of the original sentences.
• Do not fail to cite the source of any of the
  ideas or facts.

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• When quoting directly, keep the persons name
  near the quote in your notes and in your paper.
• Select those direct quotes that make the most
  impact in your papertoo many direct quotes may
  lesson your credibility and interfere with your
  writing style.

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• When quoting indirectly (not word for word), keep
  the persons name near the text in your notes,
  and in your paper
• Rewrite the key ideas using different words and
  sentence structures than the original text.

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How Can Students Avoid Plagiarism?

• To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit
  whenever you use
• another persons idea, opinion, or theory
• any facts, statistics, graphs, drawingsany
  pieces of informationthat are not common
  knowledge
• quotations of another persons actual spoken or
  written words or
• paraphrase of another persons spoken or written
  words.

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What does Plagiarism Include?

• Plagiarism includes copying homework, copying lab
  reports, copying computer programs, using a work
  or portion of a work written or created by
  another but not crediting the source, using ones
  own work completed in a previous class without
  permission, paraphrasing anothers work without
  giving credit, borrowing or using ideas without
  giving credit, and purchasing or copying an
  entire paper, perhaps making some alterations in
  the introduction and conclusion of the paper, and
  presenting the work as your own.

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Sources Referenced

• Plagiarism http//www.csupomona.edu/phoikkala/PH
  H_plagiarism.html
• Plagiarism What It is and How to Recognize and
  Avoid It http//www.indiana.edu/wts/pamphlets/pl
  agiarism.shtml
• The Owl at Purduehttp//owl.english.purdue.edu/ow
  l/resource/563/01/