Plagiarism[1]

Presenting words, images, ideas, sounds or the creative expression of others as your own.

What is Plagiarism?

Who cares?

• Considered cheating/stealing• Giving credit makes your work stronger

I begs youz..Please don’t Cheatz!

Chad’s paper was next period and required a works cited page. He knew he used a green book about trees, but couldn’t find it in in the library. He decided to just cite a book that looked similar.

Is it Plagiarism?

Pepper was putting together an Infographic on food poisoning. She found a really cool chart that described the most commonly contaminated foods. She cut and pasted the chart into her work but did not include information about where the chart came from

Is it Plagiarism?

• Tiki was researching the battle of Bunker Hill and had to turn in a one page summary of the battle for ss. She found a really good web page by the National Park Service. She cut and pasted a quote from the site and included a note as to where the quote came from.

Is it Plagiarism?

Also considered plagiarism…• Turning in someone else’s paper for a class• Turning in a paper from another class• Cutting and pasting an exact quote without citing a source• Using words or passages you don’t understand and can’t

explain• Paraphrasing from a source but not citing the source• Making up a source or citation information• Using photo, video or audio excerpts without citing source• Using statistics, charts, graphs, figures without citing source

• Exact wording, quote• Paraphrase• Statistics, tables, charts, pictures, etc.• Ideas that are not your own

What do I cite?

Do I cite it?

• How I feel about September 11, 2001

Do I cite it?

• Information I learned about bigfoot on the science channel

Do I cite it?

• Quote from President Kennedy’s Inauguration speech

Do I cite it?

The Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776.

Do I cite it?

A summary of information from a library book that I wrote in my own words

Do I cite it?

• A photo I cut and pasted into my presentationfrom Google images

Do I cite it??

• Information on the history of the Navy that I summarized from a government website

If you use a phrase that is too similar to the original passage, even if you did not intend, it is still plagiarism.

But I didn’t know!!!!

When in doubt..

Cite It!!!Cite It!!!

Ways to prevent plagiarism...

• Take good notes• When you paraphrase, don’t look at the

original.I wish I could have prevented this…

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