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Plagiarism

What it is and how to avoid it

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 What is plagiarism? 1.

plagiarism noun 

[mass noun] the practice of taking someone

else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

(From The Oxford Dictionary of English inEnglish Dictionaries & Thesauruses)

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 What is plagiarism? 2

plagiarism noun 

copying , infringement of copyright , piracy ,

theft , stealing ; informal cribbing .

(From The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus in 

English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)

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 What is plagiarism? 3

plagiarism 

The process of reusing material found in anymedium. The ease with which material can

be CUT AND PASTE d from the WORLDWIDE WEB has led to a major increase inplagiarism with entities such as graphics,APPLETS and animations being reused. Anumber of ...

(From A Dictionary of the Internet  in Computing)

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 What is plagiarism? 4

Mizner, Wilson 

If you steal from one author, it's

plagiarism; if you steal from many, it'sresearch.

(From The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations in Quotations)

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University of Huddersfield Guidelines on Plagiarism

Section 6 of the Raspberry book 

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 The contradictions

Show you have done your research

---But--- 

Write something new and original 

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 The contradictions

 Appeal to experts and authorities

---But--- 

Improve upon, or disagree withexperts and authorities

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 The contradictions

Improve your English by mimicking what you hear and read 

---But--- 

Use your own words, your ownvoice

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 The contradictions

Give credit where credit is due

---But--- 

Make your own significant contribution 

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 Actions that might be seen as

 plagiarism

Buying, stealing or borrowing a paper

Using the source too closely whenparaphrasing

Paying someone to write your paper

Building on someone’s ideas withoutcitation

Copying from another source withoutciting (on purpose or by accident)

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 Avoiding plagiarism

In order to avoid plagiarism, you must givecredit when: 

You use another person's ideas, opinions, ortheories.

You use facts, statistics, graphics, drawings,music, etc., or any other type of information thatdoes not comprise common knowledge.

You use quotations from another person's spokenor written word.

You paraphrase another person's spoken orwritten word.

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 What is common knowledge?

Common knowledge is information your averagereader would know.

How do you determine if something is commonknowledge? Ask yourself if you knew theinformation already. If you didn't, the informationis not common knowledge.

Even so, common knowledge is a tricky issuebecause what is common knowledge for you may

not be common knowledge for someone else.

The best rule is when in doubt, cite!

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Common knowledge or

interpretation?

In many sources, common knowledge facts aremixed with analysis, interpretation, and opinion.A commentary on common knowledge must becited, e.g.

If your source says that operating thespace shuttle program is an expensiveproject, it would not need citation, since itis common knowledge.

However, if your source uses the word

wasteful instead of, or in addition toexpensive, that is interpretation and wouldneed to be cited.

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Plagiarism in the news

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