Recognizing and Avoiding Bad Practice
Edel Sherratt
What is Plagiarism?
• Aberystwyth University statement on Plagiarism
• http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/student/ug-issues/exam-assess/handbook/section-13/
JISC/PlagiarismAdvice.org
• http://www.plagiarismconference.co.uk/documents/FAQ.pdf
Cornell University
• http://plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu/tutorial/exercises.cfm
• There are many more excellent tutorials and quizzes provided by the US universities
University of East Anglia
• http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/admin/dos/quiz/
Cambridge
• http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/students/plagiarism.html
Aberystwyth University
• http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/infoskills/plagiarism/
Bodging It
• Some students cut and paste text from the web• Then they modify the text until it passes a
plagiarism checker …• like Plagium: http://www.plagium.com• or http://sourceforge.net/projects/antiplagiarismc/
• or http://www.turnitoutsafely.com/• or http://www.grammarly.com/• Is this a problem?
Better ways to avoid plagiarism
• Always keep track of what you’ve read; develop annotated bibliographies
• Always give credit where credit is due; this includes images and ideas as well as text!
• Make sure you understand what you are paraphrasing.
• When you make a claim or state a fact, see if you can find any authoritative evidence to back it up.
Citation and reference
• Different styles – footnotes, end of chapter, end of book or paper
• Two common styles in science are Harvard and IEEE
Harvard citation style
• In the text (the citation)– '… (Jones, 2010)' or– '… as described by Jones (2010)'
• In the bibliography– Jones, I.W., (2010) 'New kinds of red ink', Inky
Journal of Pigments, Poppleton University Press, vol 336, no. 5, pp 55-58
Example from Edel Sherratt, ‘Writing an MSc Dissertation’ PGM0120, SEM1020, CHM1320, 2010, 2011
IEEE citation style
• In the text (the citation)– '… [7]' or – '… as described by Jones [7]‘
• In the bibliography– [7] Jones, I.W., 'New kinds of red ink', Inky Journal
of Pigments, Poppleton University Press, vol 336, no. 5, pp 55-58, March 2010
Example from Edel Sherratt, ‘Writing an MSc Dissertation’, SEM1020, CHM1320, PGM0120, 2010 and 2011
Ask for help
• When in doubt, ask the person who set the work
• Or your research supervisor• Or a tutor• Or a member of the library
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