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Plagiarizing

Learn how to correctly use quotations, paraphrases, and summaries to integrate sources in your writing effectively. Understand the differences and importance of each technique to avoid plagiarism. Works cited included.

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Plagiarizing

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  1. Plagiarizing

  2. Words are very powerful. Therefore, it is important to use them truthfully, accurately, and responsibly. Statements should be accurate both in terms of how information is managed and how it is credited http://www.writing.ku.edu/students/docs/integrity.shtml

  3. If you borrow ideas, arguments, data, or other information from another source, cite the source even if you put the material in your own words.

  4. Agreeing with the material that someone else wrote does not make it your own.

  5. http://college.livetext.com/doc/2645934

  6. What are the differences among quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?

  7. Quotations must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.

  8. Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. A paraphrase must also be attributed to the original source. Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a somewhat broader segment of the source and condensing it slightly.

  9. Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). Once again, it is necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the original source. Summaries are significantly shorter than the original and take a broad overview of the source material.

  10. Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries serve many purposes. You might use them to . . . • Provide support for claims or add credibility to your writing • Refer to work that leads up to the work you are now doing • Give examples of several points of view on a subject • Call attention to a position that you wish to agree or disagree with • Highlight a particularly striking phrase, sentence, or passage by quoting the original • Distance yourself from the original by quoting it in order to cue readers that the words are not your own • Expand the breadth or depth of your writing

  11. Quote Paraphrase In his famous and influential work On the Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud argues that dreams are the "royal road to the unconscious" (page #), expressing in coded imagery the dreamer's unfulfilled wishes through a process known as the "dream work" (page #). According to Freud, actual but unacceptable desires are censored internally and subjected to coding through layers of condensation and displacement before emerging in a kind of rebus puzzle in the dream itself (page #s). Summary

  12. How to use quotations, paraphrases, and summaries • Read the entire text, noting the key points and main ideas. • Summarize in your own words what the single main idea of the essay is. • Paraphrase important supporting points that come up in the essay. • Consider any words, phrases, or brief passages that you believe should be quoted directly.

  13. Works Cited • http://www.emich.edu/ift/mod3/lesson4.php • http://712educators.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=712educators&cdn=education&tm=101&gps=290_798_787_434&f=00&su=p554.2.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html

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