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Plagiarism – It’s not just the percentage, it’s the color
Dr Andree Swanson
June 2013
Who?
So you are in receipt of an email letting you know that there is some evidence of plagiarism.
This does NOT mean that you have broken the law.
It does mean that you need to review your Turnitin.com report.
Sample 32%
Clear evidence of copying and pasting from www.caseplace.org
Sample 32% (continued)
Clear evidence of copying and pasting from www.helium.com
Sample 15%
Clear evidence of copying and pasting from www.papercamp.com
This shows a quote that was taken from Boatright (2009).
1. A quote should be presented with quotation marks.2. A page number or paragraph number must be included
in the citation (Boatright, 2009, p. #).
3. ****www.papercamp.com*** is NOT a RELIABLE SOURCE.
This raises a red flag to your instructor
What?
To fix these “plagiarism” issues highlighted from the Turnitin.com, you will need to… Rewrite and paraphrase the words that
are presented in COLOR on the TURNITIN report
Properly cite what you have pulled from outside reading material or your textbook.
Convince them you are an expert
Convince the reader that you know what you are talking about because… You have researched this from▪ reliable, academic sources▪ ProQuest▪ EBSCOHost▪ ERIC
▪ Your textbook(s)▪ Your authors are experts in the field of study
How to avoid this in the future
Run every paper through Turnitin.com
Review it for large chunks of color Contact your professor if you need
assistance They are happy to help you. They want to help you!
Create your Academic Voice Academic Voice -- Let Your Reader "Hear" Your Voice,
Not the Author(s)
You are to present your words, not those of others. Quotations should be minimal and should only be used to clearly substantiate a point that you have already made in your own words.
Typically, there should be no more than one small quote per page, and that is excessive. Avoid excessive quoting by summarizing findings in your own words... and then citing!
Ultimately, for you to be successful in your academic writing, you will need to discern when to paraphrase and when to quote.
Paraphrase What You Research
When writing your paper, use your own words.
Research your topic; incorporate what you researched in your own words.
This is called paraphrasing.
Do not copy and paste anything from an outside source.
Not even in your first draft! Put it in your own words and CITE IT!
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Source: http://blogs.fit.edu/blog/student-stories/vasudev/zero-tolerance-for-plagiarism/
Avoiding Plagiarism Index
1. What is Plagiarism
2. How to Recognize Plagiarism
3. How to Avoid Plagiarism
4. What is Common Knowledge
5. Additional Resources12
What is plagiarism?
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Cartoon used under Creative Commons from BLAUGH.com
Cartoon used under Creative Commons from BLAUGH.com
Plagiarism Defined
Using any of the below listed items
without citing the original source is
plagiarism:
◦ facts, opinions, or someone else’s words
◦ drawings, charts, graphics, or music
Intentional
Unintentional
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Plagiarism is:
"The action or practice of taking someone else's work, ideas, etc, and passing it off as one's own; literary theft."
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
How to recognize plagiarism
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Recognizing Plagiarism
Review your document by answering
these questions?◦ Did you use outside sources?
◦ Are parenthetical citations (in-text) within your
document? Did you paraphrase? Citations should exist for EVERY
paraphrase.
◦ If you have a quote in your paper, do you have
a citation?
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Clues to Your Reader
Dates and statistics
without sources
Change in the writing
style
Mentioning sources
that do not appear on
your reference list18
It is easy to spot
potential plagiaris
m.
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Avoiding Plagiarism Rules
1. Your paper must be: in your own words or a direct quote from a specific source.
2. If you take three or more consecutive words from a source, this is a quote.
3. It is acceptable to use someone else’s documents as a source, if the source is… reliable, valid, paraphrased cited appropriately.
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Effective Paraphrasing
Use exact quotes sparingly
Summarize
▪ A short restatement in your own words
Paraphrase
▪ An expanded summary which would
follow the general flow of the original
work
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What is Common KnowledgeAvoiding Plagiarism Module
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Common Knowledge Defined
Common knowledge
Information that is well-known
and uncontroversial
▪ George Washington
▪ First President of the United
States
▪ Washington, D.C.
▪ Capitol of the United States23
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Additional Resources
Avoiding Plagiarism, Purdue OWL◦ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/
01/
Avoiding Plagiarism, Northwestern University◦ http://www.writing.northwestern.edu/avoiding_plagiarism.
html
Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism, Duke University◦ http://library.duke.edu/research/plagiarism/index
.html
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Questions?Avoiding Plagiarism Module
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