Plagiarism & Academic Dishonesty

If you use someone's ideas or words without proper credit, you have plagiarized!!

Can be intentional or unintentional!

Can take many forms, including:

• using someone's ideas or words without providing a proper credit (in-text citation & corresponding Works Cited entry)

• copying and pasting from a source (without quotation marks AND proper credit)

• quoting too extensively (check with teacher)

• poorly paraphrasing a source (too close to the original)

• presenting someone's work or part of a work as your own

• making up sources or crediting sources that were not really used

• misattributing (crediting the wrong source or page)

• submitting a paper that was written by someone else

• resubmitting a paper (handing in a paper written for another class)

• Ask & understand your teacher's policy on AI!!!

Avoiding Plagiarism:

• Use online research tools with built-in source tracking, tips, and "help" features, such as NoodleTools (teacher may require this!)

• Use notes (don't write as you read source)

  • • 1. 1. 1. • take notes in bullet points/phrases

               • carefully & accurately record source & page # information

               • paraphrase AS you take notes

               • look up words you don't understand

               • summarize sections, don't simply reword, sentence by sentence

• Keep organized (a teacher may ask you to document your research!!)

• Proofread (ask, "Is this common knowledge, or did I use a source to get this information?")

• Get help :)

Sources can be:

• Web sites & pages (including social media sites, blogs, etc.)

• Online documents

• Videos/movies

• Sound files (music, podcasts, etc.)

• Person (interview, either original, recorded, or written)

• Books (including eBooks, online books, audio books, chapters, articles/entries)

• Magazines, journals, newspapers (including online editions, online only, databases)

Copyright (legal) vs. Plagiarism:

• Copyright is legal protection for intellectual property

• Use with permission by creator

• "Fair Use" exception:

  • • • Copyrighted material may be used without permission under certain circumstances, including instruction, academic work (including student work), parody, criticism, and news (reporting)

• Some works have fallen out of copyright (protection has expired) and are now in the "Public Domain" (i.e., members of the public are free to use)