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Define “plagiarism”
Determine the ethics of avoiding plagiarism
Identify types of plagiarism
Discuss how to avoid plagiarism
Comes from the Latin word for THIEF, PLUNDERER, HUNTING NET, and KIDNAPPER
“the outright stealing of another person’s ideas”
Just like your belongings, ideas should be treated with exclusivity and respect
Unlike anything for sale, ideas won’t cost you much
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Submitting a paper bought from somebody who makes it his/her official business to sell papers
Submitting a paper that somebody else has written, whether you paid him/her for it or not
Copying a paper from a source text without acknowledging the source
Retweet RT with comment MT (“modified tweet”)
Issue: multiple meanings HT (“hat tip” or “heard through”) via
To get good grades
To help out a friend
Copying materials from a source text with an acknowledgement but without quotation marks
Paraphrasing materials from a source text without acknowledging the source
Lack of time to check for proper documentation (or simply carelessness)
Lack of awareness about rules for proper documentation
Lack of guidance on the expectations of the academe
Cryptomnesia – false impression that ideas are ours rather than other people’s
Previous research practices which ignore other academic conventions
Lack of practice in the current requirements of academic research
Other sociocultural considerations Language constraints: writing experience,
kinds of writing done, how well the student knows the language
The irrelevant reference list
Stolen references
Bad paraphrasing
Use of quotable quotes
Knowing what to do Right attitude towards research and academic
work What to do?
SELECT and CITE CONTRIBUTE NEW IDEAS TO PREVIOUS
RESEARCH CRITIQUE
Requires that you process all your borrowed materials by
Paraphrasing
Summarizing / precis
Quoting
Acknowledging your sources by mentioning them within the body of your paper and listing them at the end of your paper
Internal
External
More popularly called “summarizing” Concerned with the central idea, the core
information (rather than the details that support it)
COB – comprehensive, objective, brief KISS – keep it short and simple About 1/3 the length of original material “What does the text say in a nutshell?”
“In what way can the text be better understood?”
Rewrite the text in order to simplify it Focus not only on what is said, but also how it
is said Follows the source text point by point, including
central idea and details Breaks information down into manageable
units
Requires Acknowledgement phrase
Parenthetical citation / footnote / endnote
A comment explaining what the quote is about
A QUOTE CANNOT STAND BY ITSELF
Listing of references Bibliography Pertinent information Author’s name. Title of the Book. Place of
Publication: Publisher, year published / copyright.
Ventura, Eloisa. On Your Own: Doing Research Without Plagiarizing. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman, 1999.
Turabian MLA (Modern Language Association) APA (American Psychological Association) Chicago Manual of Style CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Citation
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