Avoiding Plagiarism

1. Avoiding Plagiarism Presentor: Yoo D. Moon Date: November 18th, 2008 Written by Purdue OWL.Last full revision by Karl Stolley.Last edited by Allen Brizee on September 30th 2008.

2. Introduction • What is Plagiarism? • The Causes of Plagiarism • The Consequences of Plagiarism • Intellectual Challenges In American Academic • Something that you need to give credit • Something that you do not need to give credit • Safe Practices • Citation

3. What is Plagiarism? • Definition : --”In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source”. • Examples --Buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper of and entire paper or article --Hiring someone to write your paper for you --Copying large sections of text from a source without quotation marks or proper citation.

4. The Causes of Plagiarism • Fear Failure or Fear taking risks in their own work • Poor time-management skills • Students don’t find academic cheating as critically important. • Proper authorities fail to report cheating • Some students do not know what it is • Lack the knowledge of and ability to use the conventions of authorial attribution

5. The Consequences of Plagiarism • A charge of plagiarism can be… • expulsion from a school • Loss of a job • A writer’s loss of credibility • Loss of professional standing

6. Intellectual Challenges In American Academic • There are some contradiction in American Academic Writing. --”Develop a topic based on what has already been said and written but write something new and original” -- “Rely on opinions of experts and authorities on a topic but improve upon and/or disagree with those same opinions” -- “Give credit to researchers who have come before you but make your own significant contribution” -- “Improve your English or fit into a discourse community by building upon what you hear and read but use your own words and your own voice”

7. Something that you need to give credit • Any individuals or any organization could be credited. Here is a brief list of what needs to be credited or documented: • -- Any words or idea presented in any medium such as a book, newspaper, songs, web page and etc. • Interviewing or conversation with other person • the exact same words or quatations • any diagrams, chart or table from other sources

8. Something that you do not need to give credit • Your own experiences, observation and thought • Your experiment results • Common knowledge • Generally-accepted facts

9. Safe Practices • Best Practices for research and Drafting • Reading and Note-Taking • Interviewing and conversing • Writing Paraphrases or Summaries • Writing Direct Quotations • Writing about another’s Idea • Marinating Drafts or Your paper • Revising, Proofreading, and finalizing your paper

10. Best Practice For Teachers • Developing a strong course policy on plagiarism • Handling cases of plagiarism

11. Citation • APA: psychology, education, and other social sciences. • MLA: literature, arts, and humanities. • AMA: medicine, health, and biological sciences. • Turabian: designed for college students to use with all subjects. • Chicago: used with all subjects in the "real world" by books, magazines, newspapers, and other non-scholarly publications.

12. Work Cited • Robert, Delaney. "Citation Style for Research Papers." C.W. Post CAMPUS. Long Island University. 15 Nov 2008 <http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm>.

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