Writing for your Teacher

Keep it easy and honest

This is my car - I love my car

It’s my red car with the crazy paint job.

Did I tell you that I love myred car?

This is my friend, Max. He loves my red car, so one

day...

HE TOOK MY CAR AND....

PAINTEDIT....

BLUE!!!

With a different drawing - stars!

Then Max said it was HIS car!

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Do you think what Max did was right?

• What would you call this kind of behaviour?

Let’s think about another situation:

• This is a famous author in Quebec, Anne Villeneuve.

She wrote this book. It’s a great book!

But what do you think if I did this and said that I wrote the

book?

Ellen Goldfinch

•Is it true?

•Is it right?

Do you think what I did was right?

• What would you call this kind of behaviour?

There’s a word for copying someone’s ideas and

saying that it’s your own idea.

• Anyone know what it is?

PLAGIARISM• Sounds pretty bad, doesn’t it?

• Have you ever plagiarized?

But.....• The book says it better

• I don’t know everything.

• What if I just use some of the words?

• I’m not trying to steal; I just want to get my homework done.

Quotation Marks and Citations to the Rescue

• “Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work and pretending that the work and its ideas are your own.” - “Ellen Goldfinch on Plagiarism” http//www.EllenGoldfinch.com

THE GOOD NEWS**When you tell your teacher

where you got your information from, it’s NOT PLAGIARISM!!**

YAY!!!!!

Just remember

“Yay” Use quotation marks if you copy

something word for word and ALWAYS WRITE WHERE YOU GOT YOUR INFORMATION FROM.

AND YOU WON’T GET IN TROUBLE LIKE THESE TWO

• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND KEEP SMILING!

BY THE WAY:Max IS my friend, he never took my car, BUT he’s a high school teacher who came up with the wonderful idea of explaining what plagiarism is by talking about cars.

Thanks, Max!