Respect this symbol - It represents the intellectual property of others.
Understand why students sometimes feel stressed into being academically dishonest and develop strategies to avoid it.
Understand the 3 kinds of plagiarism (listed below) and how easy it is to plagiarize when internet materials are so easy to access and copy. Full copyright applies to most stuff on the web * If you download images off the internet that are copyright free, you still have to cite your sources. Try Creative Commons and Wikimedia Commons. These places help you find photos, music, text, and other works whose authors want you to re-use it for some uses -- without having to pay or ask permission
You are not expected to have totally new ideas. But you simply cannot take credit for other people's work. It is easy to avoid plagiarism by giving credit where it is due.
When in doubt . . . Cite, Cite, Cite
Give credit for using
1. another person's idea, opinion, or theory
2. photographs, music, images, facts, statistics, graphs, drawings - any pieces of information - that are copyright-free.
3. quotations or paraphrases of another person's spoken or written words
Quote: Put quotations marks around everything you lift directly from the text, starting when you taking notes. For advice on how to use quotation marks, from Purdue University Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu, Download here.
Paraphrase: but be sure you are not just rearranging or replacing a few words. Avoid the temptation to do this by NOT pasting paragraphs and moving words around. Look away from the source and then compose the ideas in your OWN words.
Finally, check your paraphrase against the original text to be sure you have not accidentally used the same phrases or words, and that the information is accurate. For advice on how to paraphrase, Download here.
Three Kinds of Plagiarism
1. Cheating . . . the act of borrowing, purchasing, or otherwise obtaining work composed by someone else and submitting it under one's own name
2. Non-attribution . . . writing one’s own paper but including passages copied exactly word-for-word from the work of another (regardless of whether that work is published or from another student; or whether it comes from a printed or digital source)
3. Patchwriting . . . writing passages that are not copied exactly, but have been borrowed from another source, with some changes. The Bedford Handbook for Writers definition of patchwriting is "paraphrasing the source's language too closely". The underlying structure of the writing is obvious to the reader.
source: Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." College English. 57.7: 788-806.
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Examples of plagiarism
• Downloading a paper or article off the net
• Copying a paper from other student who is taking, or who has taken your course
• Cutting and pasting to create a paper from several sources. These "collage" papers are easily detected by wide variations in tone, diction, and style. The introduction and conclusion are often student-written and therefore noticeably different from brilliant middle.
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