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PLAGIARISM. By Earn & Nat. What’s Plagiarism?. Plagiarism-Using other people’s work and/or ideas and passing it of as your own work. Why is it important?. Plagiarism includes stealing and stealing is illegal under US laws. 1. Different Types. Copy and Paste No quotation marks
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PLAGIARISM By Earn & Nat
What’s Plagiarism? Plagiarism-Using other people’s work and/or ideas and passing it of as your own work
Why is it important? Plagiarism includes stealing and stealing is illegal under US laws. 1
Different Types Copy and Paste No quotation marks Ghost writer Purchase Paper Stealing other student’s work and putting your name in it
Different Types Potluck Paper Poor disguise Self-Stealer Too perfect paraphrase Reasoning Style/Organization Plagiarism
Examples A college student plagiarized a paper and got expelled from the university. 2 Tommy Triton cut and pasted words from internet for his paper and got a zero and need to redo the paper. 3 Timothy S. Goeglein plagiarized 2o stories and forced to resign from the white house. 4
Examples Janet Cooke won the Pulitzer prizes but the story was plagiarized so she need to return the prize and resign. 5 Dr. Raj Persaud’s articles and books were plagiarized so he got suspension of his medical license. 6
How to avoid plagiarism? 1. Try to write it in your own words 2. Make sure your work is cited CORRECTLY 3. Put quotations if you copy and paste 4. Make it different from the previous work 5. Give credit to people if they help you come up with ideas
Summary/Conclusion You could use other people’s work as long as you give credit, because his work was a part of your work. No credit=plagiarizing
References 1 http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html 2, 3, 4, 5 http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/guides/preventing-plagiarism/real-world-examples.html 6 http://library.twcnet.edu/content.php?pid=137878&sid=1180210