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Welcome!
‘Don’t cheat yourself’ is an online plagiarism tutorial.
We would like to thank Student Development at the University of Leicester for their kind permission to amend and make use of it under a Creative Commons Licence. The tutorial will help you understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
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“Plagiarism is presenting the ideas, work or words of other people without proper, clear and unambiguous acknowledgement. At its crudest, plagiarism is simply copying someone else's work and presenting it as your own… “
Plagiarism may also result from taking notes that closely paraphrase an original work and then writing them up without any attempt to impose your own structure, argument or ideas.”
Knowing the rules
But what are the rules?
Click the handbook to find out your departmental rules on plagiarism.
Universities are very serious about plagiarism, because the acknowledgement of sources underpins all academic work.
Look at the penalties for plagiarism on the right. These show how important it is to understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
It is the responsibility of the University to ensure that all students - undergraduate, diploma, taught postgraduate, research postgraduate, full-time, part-time, distance, exchange (including Erasmus), visiting, UK and international - are given ample opportunity fully to understand the academic requirements that they must follow._______________________________The penalty for malpractice dependant on severity can result in
• A written reprimand • Recorded mark of zero for
assessment • Recorded mark of zero for the whole
year • Suspension for a fixed period• Expulsion from the University
You are now going to read seven essay extracts based on a quotation from a text.
Decide if you think the student has plagiarised – some may be more obvious than others!
Click the book to read the quotation.
The original text will appear here for comparison.
* Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th edition) by Alberts et al. (2002)
“In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.”
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
Essay extract 1
Is the extract on the right plagiarism or not?
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In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced (Alberts et al., 2002).
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
This is plagiarism
This is not plagiarism
Original text:
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
“In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced” (Alberts et al., 2002).
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
This is plagiarism
This is not plagiarism
Original text:
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
In the 4th edition of their textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell (2002), Alberts et al state that nucleotide sequencing of DNA fragments has “made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.” Much of this work in the UK is carried out by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and is available for public use (see www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects).
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
This is plagiarism
This is not plagiarism
Original text:
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
In the 1970s methods were developed to allow the nucleotide sequence of purified DNA fragments to be determined quickly and simply. This has made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced (Alberts et al., 2002).
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
This is plagiarism
This is not plagiarism
Original text:
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
In the latter half of the 1970s processes were devised that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be established easily and swiftly. They have made it feasible to ascertain the entire DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes completely sequenced (Alberts et al., 2002).
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
This is plagiarism
This is not plagiarism
Original text:
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
DNA sequencing plays an integral role in modern biology. Techniques initially developed some 30 years ago have become increasingly efficient and the complete genomes of many organisms are now known (Alberts et al., 2002).
Adapted from Willmott, C & Harrison, T (2003). Used with permission
This is plagiarism
This is not plagiarism
Original text:
In the late 1970s methods were developed that allowed the nucleotide sequence of any purified DNA fragment to be determined simply and quickly. They have made it possible to determine the complete DNA sequences of tens of thousands of genes, and many organisms have had their DNA genomes fully sequenced.
Imagine you made this note while studying in the library last week…
It’s a good piece of writing and perfect for your essay on ion channel function. The problem is that you can’t remember if these are your words or someone else's.
When you’ve recorded the source details, what do you write down in the ‘notes’? And how do you know what ‘appropriate’ notes are?
This depends what your reason for taking notes is.
Click forward to see the main reasons for note-taking.
Name(s) of author(s)*:
Year of publication:
Title of book:
Name of publisher:
Place of publication:
Page reference:
* if it’s a chapter of an edited book you also need to include the ‘Editor(s) name(s)’, ‘Title of chapter’ and ‘First and last page numbers of chapter’.
Notes:
Name(s) of author(s):
Year of publication:
Title of paper:
Title of journal:
Volume number:
First and last page number:
Notes:
Name(s) of author(s):*
http:// address:
Title:
Date page accessed:** often internet pages indicate when they were last updated – this is important information to record if available.
However, if it is the idea rather than the detail that is of interest to you, you will want to adapt the information to suit your own needs (which might mean expanding on it or simplifying it)…
• whether the information is text:
Approximately 30 base pairs of the template DNA are covered by the RNA polymerase. (Brown, 2002).
Further resources regarding referencing and citations are available from the JRUL web site.
References
Alberts B et al. (2002) Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edn, Garland Science. p. 504
Berg JM et al. (2002) Biochemistry, 5th edn, Freeman. p. 353
Brown TA (2002) Genomes, 2nd edn, Garland Science. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=genomes.figgrp.7317 (last accessed 21/07/2006)
Willmott CJR and Harrison TM (2003) An exercise to teach bioscience students about plagiarism. J Biol Educ 37:139-140
Produced by the Student Development with special thanks to Dr Jon Scott, Dr Tim Harrison, Dr Chris Willmott and Dr Raymond Dalgleish. Illustrations by Angela Chorley. English language advice from Vikki Abusidualghoul and Phil Horspool. Inspired by tutorials from Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University, Canada – http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/.