Plagiarism

1. Plagiarism Week 9

2. So what’s this mean? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J89y4QPiVss • Basically, it means using someone else’s work without acknowledging the original creator. • The work can be an idea, actual language, or some other original material like music or photographs.

3. Plagiarism Examples: 1. copying another person’s work and submitting it as your own. 2. presenting work completed by someone else as your own. 3. taking an idea from someone else and submitting it as your own. 4. copying text into an original document without indicating the text with quotation marks or correctly acknowledging the original creator of the work. 5. too closely paraphrasing someone else’s work and submitting it as your own. 6. writing down words spoken by someone else and using them as your own. 7. copying diagrams, photographs, charts, images, tables, clip art, and similar items as your own without giving proper credit. 8. reusing any media that is in electronic form, such as audio files, video files, applets and software programs, without giving proper credit to the original creator.

4. How to avoid plagiarism • Quote: Using another person’s exact words is acceptable AS LONG AS you use quotation marks around the quoted words and properly cite the source. • Paraphrase: This means rephrasing the words of someone else. It is acceptable AS LONG AS the meaning is not changed and the originator is credited properly with a citation. • Summarize: This means reading the entire article, book, and/or website and then restating what you read. This is acceptable AS LONG AS you do not change the original meaning or intention of the material. • Take effective notes! To reduce the likelihood of plagiarism, it is a good idea to take careful notes so you can remember exactly which ideas are yours and which are someone else’s ideas.

5. What is NOT plagiarism • Your own experiences, observations, insights, thoughts and conclusions. • Your own results from personal observations of an experiment or study. • Your own artistic or literary creations such as prose, poems, diagrams, artwork, audio recordings, video recordings, and photographs. • Facts that are generally accepted as being true. (The sky is blue!) • Common knowledge or observations considered to be common sense. • Historical events, myths, and legends.

6. So what if you need some bling! • There is a place you can go to get videos, audio files, and photographs. • This site is called Creative Commons. It allows you to use these items as long as you give proper credit to the creator. • http://creativecommons.org/ • You can always use Microsoft clipart in your presentations as well without citing the source.

7. “They” are watching you! • Did you know that there is software here at Harrison that is used to see if you are plagiarizing? • It’s called “Turn it in” and it is designed to not only help the professor catch plagiarism but YOU as the student make sure you are turning in original work. Let’s go the their website: • http://www.turnitin.com

8. In-class activity • For practice on how to tell if you are plagiarizing, let’s do the following in-exercise handout. • You can work alone or with a partner.

9. In-class activity 2 • Today we are going to play a game to win extra credit point. You will work in groups of two. • If time allows, we will work on our final projects for next week.

10. For next week • Your annotated bibliographies are due next week!!! • You will also present on your topic next week in class as well! • Make sure you hand in your presentation outline to me next week too at the beginning of class. • Have a great weekend! 

11. One minute write up Please answer the following questions • 1. Do you think you have ever plagiarized before? Even if it was unintentional? • 2. Do you think you will use the Turn-it-in software here at Harrison? • 3. Do you have any suggestions or concerns to share with me?