Plagiarism

1. Plagiarism Citing and listing academic references

2. What is Plagiarism? • Plagiarism is defined as “Passing off someone else’s work as your own”. • There are different types and different degrees of plagiarism

3. Plagiarism • Copying directly from a text, word for word • Using an attractive phrase or sentence you have found somewhere • Using text copied and pasted from the internet • Paraphrasing the words of a text very closely • Copying from the work of another student • Downloading or copying pictures, photographs, or diagrams without acknowledging your source.

4. Plagiarism • Even if you change words or sentences you have ‘borrowed’ or put them in a different order, the result is still plagiarism. • Plagiarism is treated very seriously and plagiarised work is usually disqualified.

5. Use your own words • Even if you don’t think you write well – they count for more than copied text, and show your understanding.

6. Why bother researching? • The quality of your research feeds into the quality of your final report/essay/article • It shows you have “read around” the subject • Gives you a better chance of doing good work & getting good grades

7. Why bother citing references? • Taking another person’s work as your own is plagiarism • Basically it is CHEATING • Citing references shows you have researched and acknowledged your sources • Gives your work an academic “air”

8. Why bother listing references? • Indicates the breadth of your research • Allows context of your quotations and citations to be checked • Allows the reader to do further reading on a particular area of interest

9. The Harvard Referencing system • One of a number of referencing systems • Fairly straightforward • Gets easier with practice.

10. Harvard referencing system • Boodle link • http://boodle.bcot.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=19 • We’ll get the gist of the system and then carry out a practice exercise

11. Practice exercise • You will get 3 extracts from systems analysis text books • From these make up a coherent paragraph using parts of each extract • Cite your references in the text and list them according to the Harvard system • Harvard Referencing

12. Conclusion • Do bother to research • Do bother to reference • Use the Harvard systems in reports and essays • It gets easier with practice.

13. Quotation: • Quotation is using someone's words. When an exact quote of a few lines is used, the passage should be enclosed by quotation marks and the source should be documented according to standard documentation style. • The following is an example using the Modern Language Association's style (MLA) • According to an article in the Globe & Mail on May 7, 2002 an Ipsos-Reid poll showed that, "Almost a third of Americans consider Canada just another state, many mistakenly think Japan and China are their biggest trading partners and most say Britain is their country's best ally."(1) • For a longer quotation, do not enclose the passage in quotation marks; instead, indent the entire passage and use proper documentation.

14. Paraphrase: • Paraphrasing isusing someone else's ideas by putting them in your own words. This is a skill you will learn to master when incorporating sources into your writing. Although you use your own words to paraphrase, you must still acknowledge the source of the information