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Instructors want students to find their own “voice” that is distinct from others (such as writers, scholars, researchers, artists etc.)

What do we know?

What is Plagiarism?

  • published sources of information

What are the findings?

What do we not know?

  • conclusions and interpretations are published
  • unanswered questions or needs

To plagiarize is to use someone else's words or ideas without acknowledgment

Why?

I’ll just change a few words in this paragraph.

I don’t have time to write this paper. I’ll just buy one off the Internet

How can we find out?

What is the evidence?

Importance of Citation

-12th Grade / TONY

  • Citation facilitates the production of knowledge
  • Researchers are able to track and confirm evidence
  • ways to "test" knowledge and theories
  • observations and experiments

Plagiarism is "that which is represented as one’s own work and has been deliberately copied from any outside source, including other students’ work" (Bow Valley College, 2013, p. 26).

I don’t have time for this assignment. I’ll just hand in a paper I wrote last term.

I’ll just copy and paste this paragraph into my paper. My instructor won't know where it came from.

Figure 1: "2012: 10 Worst Plagiarism and Attribution Cases." by Sydney Smith, 2012, http://www.richardgjonesjr.com/blog/2013/1/7/worst-plagiarism-cases-of-2012.html.

How to Avoid Plagiarism

Acknowledge all sources through citation!

A citation provides descriptive information about a source that allows the reader to retrieve it

  • Who is the author?
  • What is the year of publication?
  • What is the title?

A few concepts...

  • What is the format? Is it a book, article, or website?

Copyright

Authorship

An author refers to the "origin or originator of a written work, plan" or similar creation ("Authorship," 2000).

Three Ways to Integrate Sources

Author, Initials. (Date). Title (Italics). Location: Publisher.

Reference list:

"Copyright" literally means "the right to copy."

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (2014) states "only the copyright owner, often the creator of the work, is allowed to produce or reproduce the work or to permit anyone else to do so."

Quotation

  • placed in quotation marks ("...")
  • identical to the original (exact words)
  • typically a small passage

Paraphrasing

  • restating a passage with different words and sentence structure
  • slightly shorter than the original passage

In-text citation:

Summarizing

Matheson (2012) describes William Wallace, Joan of Arc and Leif Eriksson as "rebels of the Middle Ages" (p. 14).

  • restating the main ideas(s) in a passage in different words and sentence structure
  • much shorter than the original passage(s)

Intellectual property

For example:

When is citation required?

When is citation NOT required?

needs citation

common knowledge

According to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (2014), IP are "legal rights that result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields."

  • Unique phrases, words, opinions, theories or ideas taken from an article, book, newspaper, film, website, or any other source
  • Canada became an independent country in 1867

information widely accepted and understood by most people in a community:

"common knowledge" =

References

Authorship. (2000). In Collins English dictionary. Retrieved from http: //credoreference.com

Billingsley, B. (2013). Evolution, not revolution: Canada's constitutional history and the Constitution Act, 1867. Law Now, 37(3), 8-12. Retrieved from http: //www.lawnow.org/

Bow Valley College (2013). Student handbook. Retrieved from http:// www.bowvalleycollege.ca

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (2014). A guide to copyright. Retrieved from http: //www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr02281.html

Lam, H. S. (2008). The Zen in modern cosmology. Hackensack,N.J.: World Scientific.

  • The British North America Act of 1867 united French and English colonists into a single Dominion of Canada with a system of local law-making (Billingsley, 2013, pp. 9-10).
  • Reprinted diagrams, illustrations, charts, or pictures found in print or on the internet
  • Basic observations of the natural and man-made world
  • Undisputed historical and scientific facts
  • Common social, cultural or national beliefs and practices
  • The sky is blue
  • Blue light waves are shorter and scatter more than other colours of light (Lam, 2008, p. 60).
  • An idea, opinion or theory found in unconventional forms, such as conversations, emails, interviews, or blog comments

THANK YOU!

Helpful Resources

To Review...

  • Library guide for APA style:

http://bowvalleycollege.libguides.com/apa-style

  • Purdue OWL:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/

  • Questions?
  • Plagiarism Jeopardy! - https://jeopardylabs.com/play/plagiarism45
  • APA official website and blog:

http://www.apastyle.org/

  • The RGO LLC!
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