Plagiarism
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Writing & Academic Dishonesty
Meghan MacNamara, MFA
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PLAGIARISM: It’s an issue of respecting your sources and yourself
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Plagiarism:
Literary theft of someone’s words,
thoughts, expressions, images or sounds and presenting them as your own without acknowledging the original
source
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Plagiarism comes from the Latin
word “plagiarius” which means
kidnapper or to plunder.
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According to a 2001 survey by
Rutgers University, 1/2
of students surveyed
admitted to some type of plagiarism on
written assignments.
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In fact, a New Jersey high
school valedictorian was denied admission
to Harvard University when she plagiarized content in a
newspaper article she wrote.
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Intentional plagiarism =
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Don’t do any of the following:
• Copy and submit someone else’s work as your own
• Buy or borrow papers• Cut and paste without proper documentation
• Change words here and there, but copy the original sentence structure
• Anything that I missed that would be done with the intent to represent the original work as your own
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Unintentional plagiarism
• Usually done because student doesn’t understand how to properly cite.
• Insufficient paraphrasing
• • Poor or inappropriate documentation
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Just to confuse
you: some things are considered
common knowledge and don’t need to be cited.
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If found in five (5) or more sources, the information is considered common knowledge and does not need to be
cited
Examples:Barack Obama is the 44th President.
Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
Pit Bulls are awesome, despite their misrepresentation in the mainstream
media.
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What is self-plagiarism, otherwise referred to as “double-dipping” your own
written work?
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It is not okay to “double-up.”
Self-plagiarism is using the same (or very near the same) paper for two different
classes without permission from both instructors
to do so.
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Avoiding plagiarism is just a step away.
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Summarize by boiling things down to basic
concepts. This can mean summing
up an entire paragraph in one sentence by just focusing on the skeleton of the
ideas expressed.
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Paraphrase: Express the meaning of a written or spoken passage using your own words, words that are different from the original source
Paraphrase: Express the meaning of a written or spoken passage using your own words, words that are different from the original source
Play with words and phrases.
Reword. Rework.
Get creative.
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Devices in the iPod range are primarily digital audio players designed around a central click wheel, although the iPod shuffle has buttons, also.
An iPod is an MP3 player that lets the listener choose and play music by using a touch wheel to make selections. Some versions also have buttons.
Original Passage
Paraphrase
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Be clear. • Mark and properly cite quotations• Paraphrase and summarize information from
your sources matter in your own words • Use of own words while taking notes and
organizing paper • Highlight or otherwise mark words or sentence
structure elements that you need to change when compared to the original source
• Cite all information that isn’t common knowledge with in-text, parenthetical citations
• Include a References page • Use author’s name as a tag to give credit
within a sentence
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Cite it all!✔Someone else’s spoken or written content (aka, a quotation)✔Facts or ideas not commonly known (all the stuff you had to look up)✔Images, statistics, details, observations, descriptions, eye-witness accounts, and interviews (pretty much everything that didn’t come directly from you, yes?)✔Opinions, arguments, and speculations from sources other than yourself✔Detailed content involving descriptive terms, proper nouns, and names (If you are using someone else’s clever catch phrase, give them props.)