Plagiarism by gulyás bence

by Gulyás Bence

• What is Plagiarism?• Types of Plagiarism• How to Recognize and Avoid It?• The Culture of Plagiarism• Facts about Plagiarism

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?____________________________

___Words like ‘copying’ or ‘borrowing’ reduce seriousness

Steal and pass off ideas of anotherAlready existing material presented as newliterary theft

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM___________________________

Deliberated• rewriting from books of articles

• copying & pasting from web pages and online sources to create a PATCHWORK writing

• buying, downloading, stealing or borrowing a paper

• hiring someone to write your paper

Accidental• using source too closely when paraphrasing

• building on someone's ideas without citation

• recycling an old paper

• not knowing what "common knowledge" is

Copying from another source without citing (on purpose or by accident)

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

Sources not Cited

• The ghost writer• The photocopy• The poor disguise• The labor of laziness• The self-stealer

Sources Cited

• The forgotten footnote• The misinformer• The too-perfect paraphrase• The resourceful citer• The perfect crime

HOW TO AVOID PLAIGARISM

• Put everything in quotations• Paraphrase instead of replacing few words• Check your paraphrase for same phrases, words

CULTURE OF PLAGIARISM

FACTS ABOUT PLAGIARISM

A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once.

According to a survey by the Psychological Record 36% of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material.

A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never been appropriately disciplined.

The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next (Free Press, July 1996) states that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989.

REFERENCESSooman, D. (2011). Tech Spot News. Retrieved from

http://www.techspot.com/news/21975-internet-has-created-culture-of-plagiarism-in-universities.html

Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University. Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

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