Citation & Plagiarism

1. Citation & Plagiarism “Fixing” your Creative Majors

2. Plagiarism is: • Using someone’s words or ideas without giving her/him proper credit. • It is also when you pass off someone else’s work as your own. • There are various forms – Often plagiarism stems from not citing properly: • Using a direct and not citing it at all -- REALLY BAD! • Using a direct quote and not citing it properly – LESS BAD, but still not good! • Using a person’s idea and not citing it at all -- REALLY BAD! • Using a person’s idea and not citing it properly – LESS BAD, but still not good!

3. Serious Consequences: Ignorance of the law does not does not exempt you from it! • ISM = failed grade  suspension  expulsion • IB = NO DIPLOMA! • Colleges = Loss or credit for course &/or expulsion

4. COMMON KNOWLEDGE: • This is a body of basic facts that need no citation, as more than 5 sources will say the same thing: • Z is the last letter in the alphabet. • Barack Obama is the current president of the USA. • Manila has about 17 million people living in the greater metro area. • Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass, but it was not initially well received in his time.

5. The Problem Many of YOU Had: • You used specific facts that don’t fall under “common knowledge” and didn’t cite it. • You paraphrased information that was clearly not your own. • You had the texts from which you pulled information listed on your Works Cited Page, but… YOU DIDN’T ACTUALLY CITE ANYTHING • Or your format on your works cited page was SO BAD, you need to re-format it!

6. How to cite an Basic Internet Article: • Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article title, website name, etc…) • You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function. • Unless otherwise instructed, you no longer need to include the URL.

7. Examples of HOW to cite: The horrendous bombs “packed with nails, ball bearings and shards of metal designed to carve up the victims” seemed designed with especially malevolent intent (“Bombs at Boston Marathon”). • Direct quote, so I need a citation • No author, so I default to article title Recent reports suggest that the suspects were carrying large backpacks which held crude bombs (Pressman and Burns). • Not a direct quote, but I took specific information from this article. • Two authors listed, so I use their names The Boston Marathon had a tragic 117th birthday this year. • No citation needed, as the number of years the race has been held is common knowledge, as is the tragedy

8. Works Cited • Basic Format: • Alphabetical order • Double spaced • No spaces between entries • All lines after the first are indented “Bombs at Boston Marathon were made from pressure cookers and ball bearings.” Daily News. 16 Apr. 2013. Web. 17 Apr. 2013. Pressman and Burns. “Boston Marathon bombs believed carried in dark, heavy bags.” Rueters News. April 16, 2013. Web. April 17, 2013.

9. Where to get further help: • Your amazing English Teacher (a.k.a. The Citation Sleuth) • The Owl @ Purdue owl.english.purdue.edu

10. Your Next Steps • If you have no lower score highlighted on your rubric, you have done this correctly. • If I marked a lower score on your rubric, that will remain in Power School until you send me your fixed citations and fixed works cited page • If your grade has been dropped two scores down, that is because you neither cited nor included a works cited page. You need to submit both. • Fixed work must be submitted to your google drive folder by next Thursday, April 25 by the end of lunch • You need to also physically resubmit your paper. • Absolutely NO exceptions beyond this, if you don’t meet the deadline the lower grade stays. PERIOD!