Week 3 - Notes to Be Given to Students on Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop Amended by TLSH

7/25/2019 Week 3 - Notes to Be Given to Students on Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop Amended by TLSH

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Plagiarism: What it Means andHow to Avoid It


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What Is

Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is

the act of presenting the words,ideas, images, sounds, or the

creative expression of others asyour own.


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Video Sharing Session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEr04c5nuMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEr04c5nuM


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What's theorigin of the

wordplagiarism?

The wordplagiarismisderived from the Latin

wordplagiare, whichmeans to kidnapor abduct


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Why is it important to

understand Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is stealing of intellectualproperty

Plagiarism is cheating

Plagiarism is anAcademic ofence

Plagiarism isAcademic thet!


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c"ses!

Its okay ifI dont get caught!

I was too busy towrite that paper!

(Job, big game, too much homework!)

My teachersexpecttoo much!

Ive got to getinto

"!

My parentsexpect #$%s!

&his assignmentwas 'I*+!

veryone does it!

Wh# do st"dents$lagiari%e?

Taken rom Plagiarism PowerPoint at


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ore r caeasons Wh#

(t"dentsPlagiari%e are :

)*+nawareof what constitute plagiarism

2. Do not understand wh# so"rces are so

im$ortantand why all the fuss is aout!. Do not "now how to

integrateincor$orate so"rcematerials into their own arguments or

assignment#. $ave $oor time-management s.ills,

running out of time. $ence, they have nochoice ut to plagiarise.


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%wo %ypes of Plagiarism

&ntentional Plagiarism

'(opying a friend)s wor" ' *orrowing or uying

assignments ' (ut and paste from

electronic resources

' Downloading essays from

the &nternet and

presenting as yourown

wor"

+nintentional Plagiarism

' ot "nowing how toac"nowledge or

incorporate sources of

information through

proper paraphrasing,

summarising and

-uotation

'(areless copying, cutting

and pasting from

electronic dataases

'uoting excessively

' /ailure to use your own

voice


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Be Aware of What Constitutes

Plagiarism and Take Precaution

*oth intentional or unintentional

plagiarism are not acceptaleand are academic o0ences

&t is IMP/TA0Tthat youac"nowledge or give creditwhere it is due


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Be Aware of What Constitutes

Plagiarism and Take Precaution

&t does not matter whether the personwhose wor" you have cited is alive ordead. 1ou still have to cite if it is not yourown idea

&f you paraphrase or translate somesections of a piece of wor", you must givea citation

&f you ta"e an image from the &nternet or


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eal Life &onse1"ences


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+TA Polic#:

Penalt# on Plagiarism

The s"2mission of a $ro3ect re$ortwhich is $lagiari%ed will 2e re3ected

andreferred to the Academic 4isci$linar#

&ommittee for f"rther action*


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Do & haveto cite

everything

Taken rom Plagiarism PowerPoint atboe.qacps.k12.md.us/qhs/teachers/Boones/plagiarism.ppt


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ope3

/acts that are widely "nown, or

&nformation or 4udgmentsconsidered common"nowledge

Do 0/Thave to e citedHoora# for

common.nowledge!

55 ta"en from 6oyce *rannon)s Plagiarism. PowerPoint Presentation 7 6oyce Valen8a)s 9hat is Plagiarism

:See wor"s cited;. :&nternet downloads; boe.qacps.k12.md.us/qhs/teachers/Boones/plagiarism.ppt


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am$les of &ommon 5nowledge or Widel# Acce$ted6acts

%he ile is the longest river in the world

%he world is round

%he sun rises in the east

If you see the information in three or more sources,and you are quite sure that your readers already

know this information, it is likely to be commonknowledge.

However, whenever you are in doubt,cite!


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7o" do not need to doc"mentcitewhen:

Writing your own experiences and observations

Presenting the results of original research or

experiments

Writing your own thoughts, comments or

conclusions in an assignment

Evaluating or offering your own analysis

Using common knowledge or folklore

Using generally accepted facts or information


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Exercise !ow to

"ecogni#e Plagiarism


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9hat)s the ig deal

IfIcha

ngea

fewword

s,Im

okay,r

ight?

Wrong!Paraphrasingoriginalideaswithoutdocumentingyoursource,isplagiarismtoo!

55 ta"en from 6oyce *rannon)s Plagiarism. PowerPoint Presentation 7 6oyce Valen8a)s 9hat is Plagiarism:See wor"s cited;. :&nternet downloads; boe.qacps.k12.md.us/qhs/teachers/Boones/plagiarism.ppt


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1ou can orrow fromthe wor"s of others

to e used in yourown wor"3

*+% $


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$se these % &trategies

)*8"otation

9* Para$hrasing* ("mmari%ing

%his is to help you lend=incorporate sourcematerials into your own writing and ma"e sure

that your voice is heard


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'uotations

+se 1"otations

to s"$$ort #o"rarg"ments andadd credi2ilit#

to #o"rresearch $a$er*


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Tips or $sing 'uotations

Students frequently overusedirect quotation

Only about 10% ofyour final manuscript

should appear as directlyquoted matter


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ExampleInter$reting these res"lts, o22inset al* ;9


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(or 'uotations

>. ?ust e identical to the original.?atch the source document word

for word2. Put -uotation mar"s around the

original author)s exact words

!. ?ust reference the original source#. &nclude the page numer of the

original source


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Example/riginal so"rce: iie "orden# $ %ase "ook of &amily and%rime in the '()*sy 6oyce 9illiams, et al.A

The rise of ind"str#, the growth of cities, and thee$ansion of the $o$"lation were the three greatdevelo$ments of late nineteenth cent"r# Americanhistor#* As new, larger, steam-$owered factories2ecame a feat"re of the American landsca$e in the

ast, the# transformed farm hands into ind"strialla2orers, and $rovided 3o2s for a rising tide ofimmigrants* With ind"str# came "r2ani%ation thegrowth of large cities ;li.e 6all iver, Massach"setts,where the Cordens lived= which 2ecame the centersof $rod"ction as well as of commerce and trade*


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Ater Paraphrasing

6all iver, where the Corden famil# lived,was t#$ical of northeastern ind"strial citiesof the nineteenth cent"r#* (team-$owered

$rod"ction had shifted la2or fromagric"lt"re to man"fact"ring, and asimmigrants arrived in the +(, the# fo"ndwor. in these new factories* As a res"lt,$o$"lations grew, and large "r2an areasarose* 6all iver was one of theseman"fact"ring and commercial centers;Williams, )DE


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(or Paraphrasing

)* The $ara$hrased material is"s"all# shorter than the

original $assage

9* M"st "se #o"r own words

* M"st reference the originalso"rce

B (t t


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B (te$s toPara$hrasing

>. Select the information you need

2. +se your own words

a. +se synonyms :words with same meaning;

. &nterchange active and passive voice

!. Bive credit to original author

a. +se In-tet &itation : author5date style;

#. (ompare what you wrote with the original text.

a. Cre main ideas and sustance covered

. Di you use your own words and modifysentence structure

c. Did you give credit to author of original source


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am$le of How to (elect Information

Aim: How has "ro$ean settlement in A"stralia aFecteddiFerent A"stralian 2irds?

ot all species have su0ered from land clearing. C few ird species,such as the magpie, together with larger "angaroos such as the asternBrey and Eed, have expanded their range as clearing creates more oftheir favoured grassland and open woodland haitats, while some

utterFies have also expanded their range as far as Clice Springs,following the trees and Fowers planted around homesteads across theoutac".

ot all species have su0ered from land clearing. C few ird species,such as the magpie, together with larger "angaroos such as theastern Brey and Eed, have expanded their range as clearing createsmore of their favoured grassland and open woodland haitats, whilesome utterFies have also expanded their range as far as CliceSprings, following the trees and Fowers planted around homesteadsacross the outac".


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&ummari#ing

The a"thorsoriginal wordsare rewritten

into as"2stantiall#shortened form

that ca t"res


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Example/riginal so"rce:

G6or the semantic we2 to f"nction, com$"ters m"st have

access to str"ct"red collections of information and sets ofinference r"les that the# can "se to cond"ct a"tomatedreasoning* Articial-intelligence researchers have st"dieds"ch s#stems since long 2efore the We2 was develo$ed*5nowledge re$resentation, as this technolog# is oftencalled, is c"rrentl# in a state com$ara2le to that ofh#$ertet 2efore the advent of the We2: it is clearl# agood idea, and some ver# nice demonstrations eist, 2"tit has not #et changed the world* It contains the seeds ofim$ortant a$$lications, 2"t to reali%e its f"ll $otential itm"st 2e lin.ed into a single glo2al s#stem*G


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Ater &ummari#ing

Cerners-Lee et al ;9


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(or &ummari#ing

)* The tet is m"ch shorter thanthe original tet

9* M"st "se #o"r own words,"s"all# with ver# limited "seof 1"otations

* M"st reference the originalso"rce


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,n-Text .itations

Whenever #o" $ara$hrase, s"mmarise or 1"ote from a $artic"larso"rce, #o" have to do >In-tet &itation@

An In-tet &itation is referencing a wor. in the 2od# of the tet*

It consist of the a"thors s"rname and date of $"2lication* To incl"de$age n"m2er if there is a direct 1"otation

6or eam$le:

A st"d# cond"cted 2# Cright and Western ;)EDB= s"ggested a signicantrelationshi$ 2etween***

Alternativel#, when em$hasi%ing a $artic"lar a"thor's ideas, a"thornames can 2ecome the s"23ect of the sentence with the date onl#following in 2rac.ets*

6or eam$le:

Cright and Western ;)EDB= have arg"ed that***


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.itation &t*les

+TA is ado$ting the

following citation st#les:)* APA (t#le ;American

Ps#chologicalAssociation=

9* Harvard (t#le


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/hich &t*le &hould ,

$se0APA st#le for:

6ac"lt# of Acco"ntanc# J Management

6ac"lt# of &reative Ind"stries

Instit"te of &hinese

6ac"lt# of Arts and (ocial (cience

6ac"lt# of C"siness J 6inance


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/hich &t*le &hould ,

$se0Harvard st#le for:

6ac"lt# of ngineering J (cience

6ac"lt# of (cience

6ac"lt# of ngineering J reen

Technolog#

6ac"lt# of Information J&omm"nication Technolog#


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Exercise - &ummarising

Paraphrasing and 'uoting


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/hat ,s Turnitin0T"rnitinis an &nternet5asedplagiarism5prevention service that

chec"s the documents for content thatis not original.

%he results can e used toA

identify similarities to existingsources

to help students learn how to avoid

plagiarism and improve their writing
http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/glossaries/term.php?ID=101&SUBJECT=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internethttp://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/glossaries/term.php?ID=101&SUBJECT=1


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/hat ,s Turnitin0More than ,


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!ow Turnitin /orks0

(ee the /riginal Wor.

T"rnitin $reserves the original formatof the $a$er allowing lect"rers toview the st"dent's original tet,formatting, imager# and la#o"t*


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!ow Turnitin /orks0

+nderstand What is /riginal and WhatIsn't

T"rnitin shows how m"ch of thest"dent's $a$er matches content fromo"r data2ases so instr"ctors can

1"ic.l# "nderstand how m"ch of the$a$er is "noriginal*


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!ow Turnitin /orks0

Niew (t"dent's (o"rces

Matched so"rces from the $a$er

a$$ear in an eas#-to-"nderstandformat revealing color-coded so"rcescorres$onding to non-original wor.*


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!ow Turnitin /orks0

Access Nast 4ata2ases

T"rnitin contains 9BO 2illion we2

$ages, 9


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!ow Turnitin /orks0

Niew /ne &om$rehensive e$ort

Lect"rers can easil# move 2etween or

overla# /riginalit#&hec., radeMar.and PeerMar. re$orts to gain a f"ll"nderstanding of the written wor.*


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!ow Turnitin /orks0

6or more

information, #o"ma# visit

t"rnitin*com


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Week 3 - Notes to Be Given to Students on Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop Amended by TLSH