Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Plagiarism: How to Get it Out of your Life
67
Let's see some examples:
All of these examples have one thing in common:
- The problem is not that you made use of a source,
- But that you pretended you were the source.
It's misrepresentation,like pretending you invented basketball.
Submitting someone else's article as if you wrote it yourself.
Now we have artificial intelligence apps that can generate text for you.
Make no mistake: This is plagiarism too. Why? Because you are passing off computer-generated text as your own.
If you do use AI,you need to cite it properly, just like any other source. Here is the format for various styles:
- APA: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt
- MLA: https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/
- Chicago/Turabian: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html
- SBL: https://library.concordia.ca/help/citing/sbl.php?guid=chatgpt
Here's the rule, plain and simple:
Copying phrases,
sentences or paragraphs from a source without
stating where you got them.
Reading a
unique idea
in a source
and then
passing
off that
idea as if
you thought
of it
yourself.
If you make use of someone else's words or unique ideas, you must, in a citation, state who the source was.
And that source cannot be you.
How can I use sources honestly?
Plagiarism is not about using other people's work but about pretending that other people's words and ideas are your own.
It's fraud.
If you quote, use quotation marks and a citation.
Avoid rewriting your
source, sentence by sentence. Usually too much of the original source is left.
If you come across a unique idea in a source, summarize it and cite it.
But how do you know if an idea is unique?
It's unique if you can't find it in two or more independent sources.
Polar bear populations are under stress- Not unique
Gormezano & Rockwell have shown that polar bears are finding land animals to eat - Unique
Plagiarism is a big deal in higher education.
In all of this you want to avoid ever having the reader believe that the words or unique ideas of someone else are your words or ideas.
A word to the wise: Cite your sources.
Here's the key:
Plagiarism is not about what sources you can use and what you can't.
It's about how you represent yourself to others.
It might seem harsh, but people would call you a LIAR.
You claimed the work of others as your own.
Plagiarism does not have to be a deep mystery or a guessing game.
There are ways to make sense of it.
What would people say about you if you made the following pronouncements?
- I invented basketball.
- I created the iPhone.
- I'm the genius behind Netflix.
But how can we recognize it?
How can we avoid it?
And why is it such a big deal anyway?