Lesson 11: Avoiding Plagiarism

Slide 1: 1 Lesson Eleven Avoiding Plagiarism 1 Robert Rauschenberg Satellite, 1955

Slide 2: Today’s Objective By the end of the lesson, you should know what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.

Slide 3: Week 11 Example Text Example Text/ First Draft / Week 12 Introductions Outline Week 13 Avoiding Plagiarism Week 14 Introductions / Conclusions Second Draft / Week 15 Peer Review 1 Formal Outline / Reading notes Week 16 Peer Review / Editing Peer Review 2 Week 17 Argument in Life Final Portfolio Week 18 Preparation for Final Exam Short Reflection

Slide 4: Grading 20% Participation / Portfolio 80% Final Exam / Final Draft Note: your final draft will count as the essay portion of your final exam.

Slide 5: What is plagiarism? “Plagiarism is the use of facts, opinions, and language taken from another writer without acknowledgement. In its most sordid form, plagiarism is outright theft or cheating…” -Pg 267 in text

Slide 6: A Brief Introduction to Plagiarism Let’s look at page 267 in our text.

Slide 19: When Do We Give Credit? The key to avoiding plagiarism is to make sure you give credit where it is due.

Slide 20: What needs to be credited or documented? 1. Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium

Slide 21: What needs to be credited or documented? 2. Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing

Slide 22: What needs to be credited or documented? 3. When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase

Slide 23: What needs to be credited or documented? 4. When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, or other visual materials

Slide 24: What needs to be credited or documented? 5. When you reuse or repost any electronically- available media, including images, audio, video, or other media

Slide 25: What needs to be credited or documented? The bottom line: document any words, ideas, or other productions that originate somewhere outside of you.

Slide 26: What does not need to be credited or documented? 1. Writing your own lived experiences, your own observations and insights, your own thoughts, and your own conclusions about a subject

Slide 27: What does not need to be credited or documented? 2. When you are writing up your own results obtained through lab or field experiments

Slide 28: What does not need to be credited or documented? 3. When you use your own artwork, digital photographs, video, audio, etc.

Slide 29: What does not need to be credited or documented? 4. When you are using \"common knowledge,\" things like folklore, common sense observations, myths, urban legends, and historical events (but not historical documents)

Slide 30: What does not need to be credited or documented? 5. When you are using generally-accepted facts, e.g., pollution is bad for the environment, including facts that are accepted within particular discourse communities, e.g., in the field of composition studies, \"writing is a process\" is a generally-accepted fact.

Slide 31: Now that we know which sources to document, how do we document them? Every direct quotation, summary, and paraphrase needs to be documented with an in-text note (264). Every essay needs a Works Cited page at the end (281).

Slide 32: In-Text Notes Writer’s family name (Smith 32) Page number in original text where information was found

Slide 33: Writing Direct Quotations Let’s look at page 264 in our text get a general idea about how to use direct quotations.

Slide 34: Writing Direct Quotations 1. Keep the source author's name in the same sentence as the quote

Slide 35: Writing Direct Quotations 2. Mark the quote with quotation marks, or set it off from your text in its own block, per the style guide your paper follows

Slide 36: Writing Direct Quotations 3. Quote no more material than is necessary; if a short phrase from a source will suffice, don't quote an entire paragraph

Slide 37: Writing Direct Quotations 4. To shorten quotes by removing extra information, use ellipsis points (...) to indicate omitted text

Slide 38: Writing Direct Quotations 5. To give context to a quote or otherwise add wording to it, place added words in brackets, []; be careful not to make any additions that skew the original meaning of the quote

Slide 39: Writing Direct Quotations 6. Use quotes that will have the most rhetorical, argumentative impact in your paper; too many direct quotes from sources may weaken your credibility, as though you have nothing to say yourself

Slide 40: Remember, only about 10% or less of your paper should be direct quotes.

Slide 41: Writing Paraphrases or Summaries 1. Use a statement that credits the source somewhere in the paraphrase or summary, e.g., According to Jonathan Kozol, ....

Slide 42: Writing Paraphrases or Summaries 2. If you're having trouble summarizing, try writing your paraphrase or summary of a text without looking at the original, relying only on your memory and notes

Slide 43: Writing Paraphrases or Summaries 3. Check your paraphrase or summary against the original text; correct any errors in content accuracy, and be sure to use quotation marks to set off any exact phrases from the original text

Slide 44: Writing Paraphrases or Summaries 1. Put quotation marks around any unique words or phrases that you cannot or do not want to change Example: “Savage inequalities\" exist throughout our educational system (Kozol).

Slide 45: Note Forms Let’s look at page 267 in our text.

Slide 46: In-Text Citations Let’s look at page 268 in our text.

Slide 47: Works Cited Let’s look at page 269 in our text.

Slide 48: Works Cited Writer’sWriter’sname name of book family given Title Blair, Walter. Mark Twain & Huck Finn. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1962. Place of publication Year of publication Publishing companies’ name

Slide 49: Thesis Statement Nowadays, women are no longer looked down upon by society, for they are playing an important part in many fields, which cause society to advance.

Slide 50: Thesis Statement Nowadays, women are no longer looked down upon by society, for they are playing an important part in many fields, which cause society to advance.

Slide 51: Thesis Statement This paper tells us Chinese traditional culture. It is divided into several aspects: the first aspect is lead-in, it is not the most important one but give us a general beginning; the second aspect shows excellent points of Chinese traditional culture; the third aspect shows some negative points; the last aspect is a conclusion but not a simple conclusion. The whole paper shows us the author's idea on Chinese traditional culture and how to judge the culture. The author uses relative method.

Slide 52: Thesis Statement In this article we will discuss the situation of graduates' employment in China by analyzing the reasons and measures of their unemployment.

Slide 53: Thesis Statement The quality of college student need to be further improved because, on the one hand, the quality of college students is showing obvious decreasing due to different reason in recent years. on the other hand the fierce competition raises the standard for human resource.

Slide 54: Thesis Statement With the development of the education, more and more students are able to get the college education, but for same reasons, some of them are dishonest, in the long run, dishonest is really horrible, college students should be honest.

Slide 55: Thesis Statement Sex education is necessary for the teenagers because the growing incidence of teenage pregnancies and the rise in HIV.

Slide 56: You must include the following in your second and final drafts of your paper: 3. In-text citations (pg 268-269) 4. Works cited at the end (pg 269; 281)

Slide 57: Reading Assignment Review the following pages in your text: Pg. 267 – 270 Pg. 272 – 274 Pg. 281 Also, preview Introductions / Conclusion handouts