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As students and teachers in the field of Language and Literacy, you have the power and opportunity to demonstrate and promote good academic practices as a way to guide younger learners to be more responsible, ethical, and critical, not just in the academe but also in situations outside the (virtual or residential) classroom.
In this regard, we should all be concerned with the issue of plagiarism and other forms of intellectual dishonesty.
One way that we can all deal with this practice (or habit?) is to go back to the basics and learn or re-learn how to write effectively and ethically in the academic and professional settings.
BASIC PLAGIARISM RULES
[adapted from Torrecampo, R.M. (2009). DLL 210 Course Guide. UP Open University, Laguna]
You have committed plagiarism when:
You used ideas not your own, and did not cite the source, even if you reworded the text entirely.
You used the wording or ideas (even if reworded) without citing the source, even if you did not intend to plagiarize, or did not know you were plagiarizing.
You used at least six words, in succession, of a material without quoting and citing its source.
You used the same words and ideas in another language (direct translation).
You submit the same text for two different subjects/teachers/purposes (you can plagiarize yourself).
You patch together, cut up and paste words to create a mosaic of words by the same or by another/ other author/s.
You patch ideas together to create a mosaic of ideas by the same or by another/other writer/s.
You misquote the words of an author.
You wrongly cite bibliographic data of the source, including wrongly attributing text to a source, or inventing a bibliographic source for certain words/ideas.
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