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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 EdelSherratt
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.
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/
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
University of CambridgeDept of History and Philosophy of Science • Plagiarism Guidelines: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/students/plagiarism.html
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?
What about this? • http://sourceforge.net/projects/aaps/
Or this? • http://www.paraphrasingmatters.com/
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.
Citation and reference • Different styles – footnotes, end of chapter, end of book or paper • Two common styles in science are Harvard and IEEE
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
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
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