Avoiding Plagiarism and Referencing skills Areas to be covered in this workshop: ◦ What is plagiarism? ◦ How to avoid plagiarism using referencing ◦ Referencing: voices in academic writing ◦ Referencing conventions: Harvard on-line ◦ Strategies to avoid plagiarism ◦ NB: workshop 3: “Summarising and Paraphrasing” PLC Transition Workshop
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Avoiding Plagiarism and Referencing skills Areas to be covered in this workshop: ◦ What is plagiarism? ◦ How to avoid plagiarism using referencing.
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Avoiding Plagiarism and Referencing skills
Areas to be covered in this workshop:◦ What is plagiarism?◦ How to avoid plagiarism using referencing◦ Referencing: voices in academic writing◦ Referencing conventions: Harvard on-line◦ Strategies to avoid plagiarism
◦ NB: workshop 3: “Summarising and Paraphrasing”
PLC Transition Workshop
Susan, why have you and your brother written the same essay about ‘My dog’?
But Miss Jones; it’s the same dog!
Plagiarism?
Your lecturers want you to demonstrate that:
◦ You have understood your task◦ You have read widely◦ You have understood what you have read and how the
research/findings/ideas/opinions of scholars to give authority to your work
Academic writing is about your understanding of and/or position on a particular topic and requires support from reliable sources
Purpose of Academic Writing
‘Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work, whether intentionally or unintentionally, as your own for your own benefit’ (Carroll, 2002, p.9)
‘someone else’s’…whatever the source
What is plagiarism?
Reduced grades Failure of the assignment Failure to complete the course Expulsion
University plagiarism policywww.adelaide.edu.au/policies/230
Academic writing requires you to use authoritative sources. Your role is to use sources to support your ideas - but you must make clear what is your voice and what is the voice of othersDoing this well enhances your writing and helps you to avoid plagiarism