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Title: What is Plagiarism?


1
What is Plagiarism?
  • (And why you should care!)

Borrowed and Adapted from the SBHS Plagiarism
Committee
2
Definition
  • Plagiarism is the act of presenting the words,
    ideas, images, sounds, or creative expression of
    others as your own.

3
Two Types of Plagiarism
  • Intentional
  • Unintentional
  • Copying a friends work
  • Buying or borrowing papers
  • Cutting and pasting blocks of text from
    electronic sources without documenting in a paper
    or on a poster
  • Media borrowing without documentation
  • Web publishing without permissions of creators
  • Mosaic plagiarism
  • Using 3 or more words in the same order/coined
    phrases
  • Careless paraphrasing
  • Poor MLA documentation
  • Quoting excessively
  • Improper use of quotation marks

4
Plagiarism A Real Issue
  • A study of almost 4,500 students at 25 schools,
    suggests cheating isa significant problem in
    high school74 of the respondents admitted to
    one or more instances of serious test cheating
    and 72 admitted to serious cheating on written
    assignments. Over half of the students admitted
    they have engaged in some level of plagiarism on
    written assignments using the internet.
  • Based on the research of Donald L. McCabe,
    Rutgers University
  • Source CIA Research. Center for Academic
    Integrity. Duke University, 2003
    lthttp//academicintegrity.org/cai_research.aspgt

5
Is this important?
  • What if
  • The architect building your new house cheated his
    way through math. Will your new home be safe?
  • Your lawyer paid for a copy of the bar exam to
    study. Will the contract she wrote you stand up
    in court?
  • The accountant who does your taxes hired someone
    to write his papers and paid a stand-in to take
    his tests. Does he know enough to get you a
    refund?
  • (Lathrop and Foss 87)

6
School Consequences
  • Fail the paper/project without the opportunity to
    make it up
  • Suspended/removed from sports teams or
    extracurricular activities
  • Removed from grade level activities
  • Reported to colleges

7
Real Life Consequences
  • Damaged the reputation of two prominent
    historians, Stephan Ambrose and Doris Kearns
    Goodwin
  • New York Times senior reporter Jayson Blair
    forced to resign after being accused of
    plagiarism and fraud

8
Remember, if you
  • have included the words and ideas of others in
    your work that you neglected to cite
  • have had help you wouldnt want your teacher to
    know about
  • have claimed someone elses work as your own

You Have Plagiarized!
9
Research Strategies
  • Quoting
  • Summarizing
  • Paraphrasing

10
Quoting
the exact words of an author, copied directly
from a source, word for word quotations must
ALWAYS be cited!
  • Use quotations when
  • You want to disagree with an authors argument
  • You want to highlight particularly eloquent or
    powerful phrases or passages
  • You are comparing and contrasting specific points
    of view
  • You want to note the important research that
    precedes your own

11
Summarizing
involves putting main ideas of one or several
writers into your own words significantly
shorter than the original and take a broad
overview of the material must cite!
  • Summarize when
  • You want to establish background or offer an
    overview of a topic
  • You want to describe knowledge (from several
    sources) about a topic
  • You want to determine the main ideas of a single
    source

12
Paraphrasing
Rephrasing the words of an author, putting their
words in your own rework the sources ideas,
words, phrases, and sentences with your own must
cite!
  • Paraphrase when
  • You plan to use information on your note cards
    and wish to avoid plagiarizing
  • You want to avoid overusing quotations
  • You want to use your own voice to present the
    information
  • You want to explain difficult concepts in more
    simple terms

13
The Rule of Thumb
  • If the information you are using is not something
    commonly known, be sure to cite your source!
  • Its better to be safe than sorry!

14
Why Its Worth It
  • When you copy, you cheat yourself and limit your
    own learning
  • The consequences are not worth the risks!
  • It is only right to give credit to authors whose
    ideas you use
  • Citing gives authority to the information you
    present
  • Citing makes it possible for your readers to
    locate the original source
  • Education is not an us vs. them game! Its
    about learning for the sake of learning
  • Cheating is unethical behaviorand youre all
    better people than that!

15
Works Cited
  • Boston Columnist Resigns Amid New Plagiarism
    Charges. CNN.com 19 Aug. 1998. 2 March 2003
    lthttp//www.cnn.com/US/9808/19/barnicle/gt
  • Fain, Margaret. Internet Paper Mills. Kimbal
    Library. 12 Feb. 2003 lthttp//www.costal.edu/libra
    ry/mills2.htmgt
  • Lathrop, Ann and Kathleen Foss. Student Cheating
    and Plagiarism in the Internet Era. Englewood,
    CO. Libraries Unlimited, 2003.
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