PlagiarismBy: Ling.chen

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

What is plagiarism?

Put in quotations everything that comes directly from the text especially when taking notes

Paraphrasing Reference: Always cite the source!

How to avoid plagiarism?

A quotation is uses exactly the same words and puts them in quotation marks.

A paraphrase is uses an author's idea, but expresses it in your own words and sentence structure- without quotation marks, since it's no longer a word-for-word quotation. And just changing a few words from the original doesn't count! Must cite the source!

Paraphrasing vs. Quoting

1. Preview and read. Preview and read the passage closely. You will need to read the passage three or four times for thorough understanding.

2. Underline the key words and ideas. It will help you decide what is important in each sentence and in the whole passage. remember to look up any words you do not know.

3. Rewrite the passage in your own words. Go through the selection and rewrite each sentence, using different words with the same meaning.

4. Don’t forget to cite the source, if you don’t, it is a plagiarism.

How to paraphrase a source

The Original is taken from Maguelone Toussaint-Samat's A History of Food (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992. 263).

Wines drunk at Greek tables did not always come from Greece itself. The wine snobbery of the time extolled the merits of wines from the slopes of Mount Lebanon, from Palestine, Egypt and Magna Graecia-Greater Greece, i.e., southern Italy. The ten litres a day drunk by the famous wrestler Milo of Croton was a wine famous in Calabria, where Milo lived: this wine, Ciro, is still made

Successful paraphrase Although Greeks were picky about their wine, they enjoyed wine from outside

Greece. Upstanding Greeks enjoyed wine from many of Greece's local trading partners—including Palestine, Egypt and southern Italy. One story tells of the famous wrestler Milo of Croton, who consumed ten liters of foreign wine daily (Maguelone Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992. 263)

Unsuccessful paraphrase Wines drunk by Greeks were not always made in Greece itself. The wine snobs

of that period celebrated wines from Mount Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt. The famous wrestler Milo of Croton, who consumed ten liters of wine a day, drank wine made in Calabria outside of Greece; this wine, Ciro, is still made.

Successful vs. unsuccessful paraphrases

Taking the identical words from an original source and put them in quotation marks and write who/where you are quoting from.

Example: A original quote from John Cage I can’t understand why people are frightened

of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. Quotation “I can’t understand why people are

frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” --- John Cage

How to Quote a Source

You must always include references when you use someone else’s work, whenever you quote their actual words or you use their ideas as the basic of your own.

Reason to support the points you make by showing the reliability

of your sources to help your readers find out more for themselves a way to shows that you have extended your learning four types of reference Harvard referencing APA(American Psychological Association ) MLA(Modern Language Association) Chicago (or Turabian) They were all contain author’s name, date, article/book’s

title, page number and website address.

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Essay Writing

I use myself as a real life example, three weeks ago, when I wrote my TOK matrix essay, I have done a plagiarism. I research on internet to find out similar topic and I copy a paragraph from internet as my introduction paragraph. I just change a few word from the original text and I doesn’t quote or cite the source. So this is a plagiarism.

Real Life Story on Accidental plagiarism!

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www.lbcc.edu/WRSC/documents/Paraphrasing.pdf

http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/documentation/paraphrase.html

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