Finding the Truth: Authenticity, Validity, and plagiarism

Finding the Truth: Authenticity, Validity, and plagiarism By Mrs. Greene

What is:AUTHENTICITY? • The state of being accurate in representation of the facts • Trustworthy • Reliable

What is:VALIDITY? • Having some foundation • Based on truth

What is:PLAGIARISM? • Failing to give credit to authors when his or her ideas and/or words are used in research • Copying • No original ideas

Let’s Practice….AUTHENITICITY!**Click the picture that is an example of Authentic

Let’s Practice….AUTHENITICITY!**Choose the Source that would be more Authentic

Let’s Practice….AUTHENITICITY! **Choose the scenario that would be more Authentic • I read in the newspaper that a new movie is going to be filmed in Suffolk! The mayor signed an agreement allowing it. • Kelly told me that she read on this person’s blog that a big movie is going to be filmed in Suffolk.

Let’s Practice….VALIDITY!

Let’s Practice….VALIDITY!*Choose the scenario that would be a more valid choice • Melissa just finished her research report on the Civil War. Her citation page listed Wikipedia as a source of her report. • Tommy also completed his research report. He decided to use the Smithsonian website as a source of his report.

Let’s Practice….PLAGIARISM!**Click on the image that displays plagiarism

Let’s Practice….PLAGIARISM!*Choose the scenario that would be an example of plagiarism • Mindy had a research paper due in two days! She had been working on it for weeks and used five sources. All she had to do know is cite the sources she used. She made a works cited page at the end of her paper. • Carl had a research paper due in two days! He had hardly worked on it. He found some sources online and copied the information into his paper. He used three sources, but only cited one at the end of his paper.

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Finding the Truth: Authenticity, Validity, and plagiarism