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No More Cat and Mouse
Debbie Abilock
[email protected]
Cofounder, NoodleTools, Inc.
What research, practice and common sense
tell us about how to do honest and intelligent
academic work?
What is plagiarism?
• Blocks of text without attribution
• Omitting citations
• Mistakes in citations
• Paraphrase uses author’s words
• Purchasing a paper
• Collaborating with others
• Intent?
Look it up in Google
Take the first results
Print everything
Abilock and Crider 11/05/03 ,
NECC 06, CAIS 09, TLA 09, Vt. 2010, ACAMIs 2011
Look at it
Open a
word processor
Paste interesting
bits together
Close, Chuck. James. 2002. Oil on
canvas. Doris and Donald Fisher
Collection, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art.
Remix 1590
A long tradition
of quoting
without
attribution
The most
widely
analyzed and
copied work
in Western
painting
Velázquez, Diego. Las Meninas. 1656.
Prado, Madrid. Wikipedia. Web. 2 Jan. 2011
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Men
inas_01.jpg>.
Velázquez, Diego. Las Meninas. 1957. Museu Picasso, Barcelona. Ajuntament de Barcelona. Web. 2 Jan. 2011.
<http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70‐433.html>.
Valdés, Manolo. El Recinte [The
Exhibition]. 1971. Arte Spain. Ocio
Networks, 6 Aug. 2009. Web. 2 Jan.
2011.
<http://www.artespain.com/06‐08‐
2009/ grandes‐autores/las‐meninas‐
de‐equipo‐cronica>.
Matisse, Sophie. Las Meninas. 2001.
Angel Flores Jr. Multiply, 24 July
2008. Web. 2 Jan. 2011.
<http://angelfloresjr.multiply.com/jo
urnal/item/591/ 591>.
High-stakes shape attribution
Career
Money
Success
Competition
Callahan, David. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead.
New York: Houghton, 2004. Print.
A lucrative global business…
Student
• Submits
assignment,
orders paper
$20‐40 per
page
Essay mill
• Exchanges
money,
orders and
delivers
paper
Ukraine,
Philippines
• Paper
withinwritten
a week
Bartlett, Thomas. "Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply." Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle of Higher Education,
20 Mar. 2009. Web. 3 May 2010. <http://chronicle.com/article/Cheating‐Goes‐Global‐as‐Essay/32817>.
College
Presidents?
Parker, Kim, Amanda Lenhart, and Kathleen
Moore. The Digital Revolution and Higher
Education. Pew Internet. Pew Internet and
American Life Project, 28 Aug. 2011. Web. 5
Sept. 2011.
<http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/College
‐presidents.aspx>.
Plus ça change
(plus c'est la même chose)
“Despite the perception that cheating has
gotten out of hand with so much online
content available to copy, the numbers
have not changed much over the two
decades that (the Clemson’s national
survey) has been conducted…What has
changed is how much easier it is to find
plagiarism. ”
Parry, Marc. "Software Catches (and Also Helps) Young Plagiarists." Chronicle of Higher Education.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 Nov. 2011. Web. 5 Apr. 2012. <http://chronicle.com/article/Escalationin-Digital/129652/>.
Faculty, staff, parents, students…
© Susan Geiger
Plagiarism or Synthesis: What do They Look Like?
“If I paraphrased my old essay do I cite
the whole thing?”
4.16.12 Unshelved, used with permission
Big ideas of citation
• Source quality contributes to your credibility.
• Consistent, accurate citation strengthens your
position
• Your audience changes your presentation:
- What you document
- Your tone and voice
- The words you use
• Documentation is discourse:
- A dialogue with your sources
- A dialogue with others interested in your topic
Questions students have sent
to NoodleTools experts…
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Do I cite a .pdf as a book or a Web page?
How do I know if it’s a journal?
What is the database name?
Can I use the footer date for the date published?
What is the correct title: the title page or the cataloging page?
The browser blue bar or the heading on the web page?
• Is it ok to cite a quote from Amazon’s “search inside the book”
even though I didn’t use the book?
• How many words do I need to change in my paraphrase?
• Is it ok to use Wikipedia but not cite it?
A notecard is an organizer for ideas
Copy and paste here
• Capture the author’s words and images
• Get quotes and attribution right
• Mark up the quote
Note Taking
Why copy and paste?
• Keep unique words or logic
- Apt phrase, eloquent argument, visual
explanation
• Assure accuracy of quotes
• Capture what you don’t understand
• Later can refer back to an authority
- Support your idea with an expert
• Search/compare across sources
Paraphrase or summarize
Paraphrase here
• Explain it to yourself
• In words you understand
• Look back at the quote – got it all?
“My Ideas” is for questions, brainstorming…
Original thinking here
• What do you wonder?
• How does this fit with what you know?
• What can you follow up on?
You’ll get quotes and attribution right!
Then start to mark it up
Help
Close reading boosts your comprehension
Explain it to yourself
Help
Help
If your note isn’t
linked to a source,
find it in this list of
all your sources
If you can, add a tag now…
Your new notecards are waiting on the tabletop
Add colors and cues to remind yourself what needs to
be done and what’s important.
Piles are possible subtopics for an outline
Drag notes and piles into your outline
Source
evaluation
Justify your choices
• "Have I gathered enough information and
met the requirements?“
• “Is this the
right balance
of print and online
sources for my research?“
• Did I make full use of the types of resources
available to me?
• Is currency important because I am reporting
on a time‐sensitive issue or evolving topic?
Use your “noodle”!
Stay organized, feel successful
• Access your work from home and school
• Safeguard against accidental plagiarism
• Spend your time thinking and creating (not
on commas)
• Get curious, feel creative…have fun!
Beyond Cut-and-Paste
Research, practice, and common sense
Debbie Abilock
[email protected]
Abilock & Geiger 11/16/04, rev. 09/9/05, Abilock & Smith 3/1/07, Burkes 9/5/07, WLMA 10/11/08, CAIS 09, TLA 09, Vt.
2010, ACAMIS 2011, AISL 2012