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Recognizing and Avoiding Bad Practice

Recognizing and Avoiding Bad Practice. Edel Sherratt. What is Plagiarism. Various definitions Failure to give credit where credit is due Passing off others’ work as your own

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Recognizing and Avoiding Bad Practice

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  1. Recognizing and Avoiding Bad Practice EdelSherratt

  2. What is Plagiarism • Various definitions • Failure to give credit where credit is due • Passing off others’ work as your own • General principle: academic work normally builds on the work of others; when you use others’ work, be sure to give credit to the originators of the work. • Various techniques: quote marks, citation etc.

  3. Useful Links • Computer Science Postgraduate Handbook: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Dept/Teaching/Handbook/pg-handbook.pdf • Information Services: how to avoid plagiarism http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/infoskills/plagiarism/ • Information Services: using the Internet http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/infoskills/internet/

  4. Cornell UniversityRecognizing and avoiding Plagiarism • http://plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu/tutorial/exercises.cfm • There are many more excellent tutorials and quizzes provided by the US universities

  5. University of CambridgeDept of History and Philosophy of Science • Plagiarism Guidelines: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/students/plagiarism.html

  6. Bodging It • Some students cut and paste text from the web • Then they modify the text until it passes a plagiarism checker … • like Plagium: http://www.plagium.com • or http://sourceforge.net/projects/antiplagiarismc/ • or http://www.turnitoutsafely.com/ • or http://www.grammarly.com/ • Why is this a problem?

  7. What about this? • http://sourceforge.net/projects/aaps/

  8. Or this? • http://www.paraphrasingmatters.com/

  9. Better ways to avoid plagiarism • Always keep track of what you’ve read; develop annotated bibliographies • Always give credit where credit is due; this includes images and ideas as well as text! • Make sure you understand what you are paraphrasing. • When you make a claim or state a fact, see if you can find any authoritative evidence to back it up.

  10. Citation and reference • Different styles – footnotes, end of chapter, end of book or paper • Two common styles in science are Harvard and IEEE

  11. Harvard citation style • In the text (the citation) • '… (Jones, 2010)' or • '… as described by Jones (2010)' • In the bibliography • Jones, I.W., (2010) 'New kinds of red ink', Inky Journal of Pigments, PoppletonUniversity Press, vol 336, no. 5, pp55-58 Example from EdelSherratt, ‘Writing an MSc Dissertation’ PGM0120, SEM1020, CHM1320, 2010, 2011

  12. IEEE citation style • In the text (the citation) • '… [7]' or • '… as described by Jones [7]‘ • In the bibliography • [7] Jones, I.W., 'New kinds of red ink', Inky Journal of Pigments, PoppletonUniversity Press, vol 336, no. 5, pp 55-58, March 2010 Example from EdelSherratt, ‘Writing an MSc Dissertation’, SEM1020, CHM1320, PGM0120, 2010 and 2011

  13. Ask for help • When in doubt, ask the person who set the work • Or your research supervisor • Or a tutor • Or a member of the library

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