Plagiarism: what it means to you

Ms. AllenJTA Library Media Specialist

What is Plagiarism?

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• chemistry.berea.edu/lobo2/using/plagiarism/

• So, basically, Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterwards. http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

    - turning in someone else’s work as your own       - copying words or ideas from someone else without

giving credit       - failing to put a quotation in quotation marks        -giving incorrect information about the source of a

quotation        -changing words but copying the sentence structure

of a source without giving credit        -copying so many words or ideas from a source that

it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not Attention! Changing the words of an original

source is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism. http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc

Preventing Plagiarism

• Plan out your paper before you start writing. DO NOT PROCRASTONATE!!

• Take good notes as you go, and cite the source with your notes.

• If you have ANY questions about citing, ask your teacher. http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc

www.pyrczak.com/antiplagiarism/cartoons.htm

What is a Citation?

A “citation” is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again, including:

        information about the author         the title of the work         the name and location of the company that

published your copy of the source

        the date your copy was published         the page numbers of the material you are

borrowing http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc

Why do I cite?

• Giving credit to the original author by citing sources is the only way to use other people’s work without plagiarizing. http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc

www.lib.lsu.edu/.../nf/module3/plagiarism.htm

When do I cite?

• Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you need to acknowledge their source. The following situations almost always require citation: Whenever you use quotes Whenever you paraphrase Whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed Whenever you make specific reference to the work of another Whenever someone else’s work has been critical in developing your own ideas. http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc

MLA Formatting

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ Lays out exactly how to write an entire paper using MLA Formatting

• http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/mlahcc.html Gives good example sof what citing looks like in your paper and in the work cited page.

• http://www.easybib.com/ Is a Works cited page builder online

• http://citationmachine.net/ Is a work cited page builder online

“Ignorance of the law is never an excuse.”

(www.plagiarism.org)

Works Cited

http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/documentation/plagiarism/learning/complete_resources.doc Retrieved from the World Wide Web October 20, 2008.

chemistry.berea.edu/lobo2/using/plagiarism/ Picture (Plagiarism defined next to boy) retireved from the World Wide Web October 20, 2008.

www.pyrczak.com/antiplagiarism/cartoons.htm Cartoon retrieved from World Wide Web October 20, 2008

www.lib.lsu.edu/.../nf/module3/plagiarism.htm Cartoon retrieved from the World Wide Web October 20, 2008

Practice 1

Ms. Allen

October 22, 2008

Lang. Arts Speech Project

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.“

What was wrong with Practice 1

• Did I cite my source? Yes or No

NO

Should have been:

Merriam-Webster. (1971) Webster’s Guide to American History: Gettysburg Address. P 239.

Is that considered Plagiarism? Yes or No

YES, defiantly

Practice 2

“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal“(King) “.

King, Martin Luther. “I Have a Dream” Speech. October 20, 2008. http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/Martin_Luther_King/index.htm

What was wrong with Practice 2

• Did I cite my source? Yes or No

YES

Is this considered Plagiarism? Yes or No

NO

Any Final Questions?