Academic Honesty

ACADEMIC HONESTY

Students are expected to come up with their own ideas & write their own words.

Copying other words or ideas is unethical and considered cheating.

MUW POLICY

Students enrolled at MUW are expected to uphold to the highest standards of honesty.

Students who violate this policy will recieve a 0 and be reported to the Dean.

WORDS

When the source material is copied word for word this is a quote and must always be placed within quotation marks.

IDEAS

When you mention an idea that you read elsewhere, but use your own words this is called paraphrasing.

Even when you paraphrase

you must cite the source material.

MEDIA

Photos

Music

Videos

Keep in mind that even multimedia elements are original works created by artists and must be credited.

NOTE TAKING

HOW TO PARAPHRASE

When you are representing someone else's ideas with your own words you need to take extra care.

It is possible to cite your source and still commit plagiarism.

This section will dive explain how to properly paraphrase and avoid patchwriting.

For example...

A student copies a short passage from a website, changes a few words, and carefully cites the source.

This is plagiarism.

WHY?

Because they did not use their own words.

The student in this example commits plagiarism because their writing too closely resembles the original text.

This is called

PATCHWRITING.

We will now examine some examples of patchwriting vs paraphrasing.

Original passage:

“Where mainstream sports typically refrain from displaying unapologetically violent acts, professional wrestling dives in head first. A large portion of wrestling’s cultural appeal is generated by the psychological arousal/excitement provided by witnessing highly aggressive and violent forms of physical interaction in this sphere. Wrestling takes that which is pushed behind the scenes of social life and places it in the center ring” (Atkinson, 2002, p. 62-63).

Acceptable Paraphrase:

Most sports do not encourage blatant acts of violence, while professional wrestling embraces the same behaviour. Wrestling appeals to audiences because people enjoy watching aggressive and violent acts in the ring. What is normally not condoned in ordinary society is made acceptable in wrestling. (Atkinson, 2002, p. 62-63)

This is an acceptable paraphrase. Notice that the ideas of the original are included, yet they are stated in different words than the original.

Original passage:

“Where mainstream sports typically refrain from displaying unapologetically violent acts, professional wrestling dives in head first. A large portion of wrestling’s cultural appeal is generated by the psychological arousal/excitement provided by witnessing highly aggressive and violent forms of physical interaction in this sphere. Wrestling takes that which is pushed behind the scenes of social life and places it in the center ring” (Atkinson, 2002, p. 62-63).

Patchwriting:

Mainstream sports refrain from showing unremorseful violent acts while professional wrestling unapologetically revels in the same type of violence. A large part of wrestling’s appeal is generated by the very aggressive and violent interaction in this sport. While such violence is usually behind the scenes of social life, it is the centre of wrestling’s existence. (Atkinson, 2002, p. 62-63)

In the patchwriting example, a few words have been changed here and there, but not enough has been done to make the attempted paraphrase different from the original. The yellow text identifies words and phrases which occur in both the original and the attempted paraphrase.

KEEP

IN

MIND

01.

Always credit source material.

02.

Always use your own words.

You should also review the MUW Academic Dishonesty policy and MLA citation guidelines.

Find these on Canvas.

Before taking the quiz review this presentation and take notes.

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