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Plagiarism & Annotation. Overview. Plagiarism is the Problem. Annotation is the Answer Foot/End noting. What is Plagiarism?. Presenting someone’s work as your own Example: buying an essay, copying someone’s assignment Using someone’s words instead of your own
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Overview Plagiarism is the Problem Annotation is the Answer • Foot/End noting
What is Plagiarism? • Presenting someone’s work as your own • Example: buying an essay, copying someone’s assignment • Using someone’s words instead of your own • Example: taking a sentence intact or even an “apt phrase” and presenting it as your own • Presenting someone’s ideas as your • Example: following the logic of a paragraph (even in your own words) and presenting it as your own • Presenting someone’s sources as your own • Example: putting down the same footnotes but without reading the books yourself
What is Plagiarism? • Plagiarism is intellectual theft • It completely undermines the logic of learning by doing
What is Plagiarism? Intentional • Buying work • Copying someone’s written work • Copying from the Internet • “Cut and paste” from the Net Unintentional • Bad notetaking • Excessive quotations • Staying close to the text • Bad “archiving” of copied materials • Sloppy writing • Lack of language confidence
Write it Yourself • Using your own words for your own ideas • For the ideas of others • Quoting • Paraphrasing • Summarizing
Write it Yourself • Using your own words for your own ideas • For the ideas of others • Quoting • Paraphrasing • Summarizing
Quoting • Using “the exact words” of another author • For accuracy • For impact • For atmosphere • Most students over-quote... and then it is a sign of laziness
Paraphrasing • Using the arguments (and evidence) of an author (usually in the original order) • You need to show the logic (and evidence) in order to show how far you agree or disagree • You have made detailed notes and don’t want to waste them • Essays made up of consecutive pieces of paraphrased text do not usually shine with intellectual power!
Summarising • In your own words condensing the main thrust of an authors argument • You want to show how the author fits into a particular debate • You want to show how you fit into a debate • Thoroughly commendable but • don’t overdo it, and • don’t cheat
PlagiarismWhat we look for I • Exact phrases from a text without attribution • Close paraphrasing from a text without attribution • Content of essay that match those of a fellow student • Content of an essay that match an own assignment submitted for another course This is the equivalent of an athlete being tested positively for doping
PlagiarismWhat we look for II • Attributions that do not match the content of the text • Unusual changes in personal style This is the equivalent of an athlete being tested positively for using a masking agent
The Answer to PlagiarismAnnotate properly • What to annotate • Quotes • Cite exact page at the end of every quote • Paraphrased passages • Cite relevant pages • Summaries • Cite the pages or even entire source
AnnotationEnd/Footnoting • Out-of-text system • Used when you also have complicated citations • archives citations • legal citations • Used when text commentary included
AnnotationEnd/Footnoting • Out-of-text system • Uses Full attribution first citation • Ibidem. (page)immediate second citation • Author, op. cit. (page ) later citation • Author, short title , op. cit.(page) if more than one title
AnnotationEnd/Footnoting • Bibliography and notes follow same system • Initials, Surname, Title (Place of Publication, Publisher, Date) • Initials, Surname, “Title” in Editors (eds.) Title (Place of Publication, Publisher, date) pages • Initials, Surname, “Title”, Journal, Volume, Number (year) pages