Transcript Plagiarism Basics PowerPoint

Michael Lorenzen
LIB 197
23 September 2003
Used with permission from the author.
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If you use someone
else’s writing
without putting it in
quotes, you have
blatantly
plagiarized.
Even if you add the
source in your
bibliography, it is
still plagiarism.
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Be careful about rewriting
someone else’s words. If your
sentences use many of the same
words and grammatical
structure as the original source, it
could be construed as
plagiarism. Just put the text in
your own words.
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Give credit to unique ideas others have
thought up.
If you present the ideas of another
without crediting them, you have
plagiarized them.
Obvious ideas, like know facts, don’t
have to be credited.
When in doubt, attribute (tell where you
got it)
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Always put quotes
from text in
quotations. Never
forget to do this as
this is the easiest
way to get accused
of plagiarism.
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Be sure you are not just rearranging
or replacing words.
Rewrite the phrase in your own
words and credit the original source.
Double check what you have written
by comparing it with the original
writing.
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Don’t surf to paper
mills (sites that
provide papers)
Don’t use the Web to
look for “easy’ paper
sources.
Don’t turn in other
student’s papers as
your own.
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Some students
inadvertently plagiarize
from online sources.
They do not understand
all the rules for properly
using and citing sources.
(“I cited the web site
didn’t I?)
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Type in a key sentence from the
paper as a phrase search. For
example, type “The students in my
LIB 197 class are good.”
Google indexes so many sites that
even if the student didn’t use
Google, a phrase search may find the
original source anyway.
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A good supplement to Google is All the Web at
http://www.alltheweb.com.
There are commercial vendors as well. They
scan papers against known cheat sites for a fee.
This includes Turnitin.com and
Wordcheck.com.
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LibraryInstruction.Com. Michael Lorenzen.
2003. 21 April 2009
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