PLAGIARISM

A Student Guide

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What is Plagiarism? steal and pass off someone else’s ideas

or words as your own use a created production without crediting

the source commit literary theft present as new and original an idea or

product derived from an existing source

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Plagiarism IS: morally & ethically wrong cheating lying insulting to others intellectual theft punishable with severe penalties possible source of legal action in business

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“Legitimate borrowing takes place when a writer makes sparing use of some source material by fitting it in carefully in the body of his or her essay, without altering it or distorting it in a way that would upset the author.” (Fit To Print)

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IT IS NOT PLAGIARISM to use other people’s ideas or arguments to adopt character types, general plots, or other ideas from existing worksto use information that is considered common knowledge ( can be easily found in at least 5 places)

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IT IS PLAGIARISM to present other people’s ideas as your own to paraphrase the source’s language closely without using

quotes to indicate borrowed words and phrases to use direct quotes without acknowledging the source to use someone else’s argument as the basis for your essay to copy from reference books (e.g. encyclopedias) to paraphrase so closely that it resembles the source to copy and paste from a web site (including images) to use another student’s work, even with permission to submit work acquired from commercial sources to use work written for another assignment without seeking

permission from the teacher of the current class and the class from which the original work was used

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Guidelines for Students Don’t Be a Victim!

Become familiar with your school’s policy on plagiarism Learn how to cite sources (MLA or APA) Take careful notes & summarize Follow all steps as assigned Always prepare and submit outlines and drafts Keep all rough notes (including online sources) Give credit for all quotes, ideas, and arguments Use current sources (within the last year, if possible) When in doubt, document the source

Plagiarism Avoided: Taking Responsibility For Your Work *(An online booklet for students on plagiarism, including techniques for avoiding it.)

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If it’s on the Internet, then it’s public knowledge and it doesn’t need to be cited

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Wilson

Mizner

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Ask yourself“If you had any help that you don’t want your teacher or

parents to know about, you probably cheated.”

“If you didn’t think of it and write it all on your own, and you didn’t cite (or write down) the sources where you found the ideas or words, it’s probably plagiarism.”

From Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era

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Unintentional Plagiarism Recognition of even apt phrases or clever wording, through parenthetical documentation, must be given.Collaborative work on a paper must be clearly acknowledged

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Intentional Plagiarism Work copied with no citation

Work written by another, submitted as original

Words written by another, used within work and no credit

Self-plagiarismPaper written for another course must have permission of current and original instructor

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ResourcesAPA StyleArcher, Lynn, Cathy Costello, and Debbie Harvey. Reading and Writing for Success (Teacher’s Guide).Buckley, Joanne. Fit to Print.The Canadian Student’s Guide to Essay Writing.5th ed. Scarborough, Ont. Nelson Thomson Learning, 2001.Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.MLA StyleLathrop, Ann and Kathleen Foss. Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era. Englewood, Colorado. Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 2000.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~