3. HOW PLAGIARISM IS DEFINED
Plagiarism is the act of presenting
the
words, ideas, images, sounds, or the
creative expression of others as
your own.
4. WHY WORRY ABOUT PLAGIARISM?
• It’s against the law – no different
than stealing an iPod
• It’s against school rules
• You limit your learning – only
cheating yourself
5. REAL WORLD CONSEQUENCES
Kaavya Viswanathan
• Harvard sophomore’s novel Timothy S. Goeglein
“How Opal Mehta Got • 20 of the 38 articles this Janet Cooke
Kissed, Got Wild, and Got Former White House aide • Fabricated facts in her
a Life” borrowed passages wrote for an Indiana Pulitzer Prize winning
from Megan McCafferty, newspaper borrowed text
Meg Cabot and others article
from other sources
• Book was pulled from without citing
• Resigned from the
publication, movie deals • Resigned from White Washington Post and
canceled House returned her award
6. TYPES OF PLAGIARISM
Intentional Unintentional
Copying a friend’s Careless paraphrasing
work Poor documentation
Buying or
Quoting excessively
borrowing papers
Copying and Failure to use your own
pasting blocks of “voice”
text from the
Internet without
documenting
7. PLAGIARISM?
Jack has an English paper due tomorrow.
He read the book and paid attention
during class, but he has no idea what to
write about.
Jack logs onto the Internet “just to get
some ideas about topics for his paper.”
He finds a great idea and begins writing his
paper using the topic he found. He is
very careful to avoid copying any text or
words from the Internet article he found.
8. YES, THIS IS PLAGIARISM
Jack is committing plagiarism by taking
the ideas of the source without citing
them in the paper.
Even though he put the ideas in his
own words, Jack is stealing the
intellectual property of the source.
9. PLAGIARISM?
Jenny is writing a paper about
George Washington. She discusses
the fact that he was our nation’s
first president. Jenny doesn’t cite
this fact in her final draft.
10. NO, THIS IS NOT PLAGIARISM
Because the fact that Washington
was our first president is
considered common knowledge,
Jenny does not need to cite the
information.
11. PLAGIARISM?
Jamal finds a book analyzing
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
He paraphrases several ideas from
the book and makes sure to include
the author’s name and page number
in parentheses at the end of the
sentence.
12. NO, THIS IS NOT PLAGIARISM
Jamal has correctly cited his source:
Romeo and Juliet is considered to be
one of the greatest love stories ever
told. What many people don’t know
is that it was based on an Italian
story “The Tragical History of
Romeus and Juliet” (Parker, 188).
13. DIRECT QUOTATION VS. PARAPHRASE
Direct quotations include exact words
from a source and use quotation
marks:
The population of Europe decreased
after the Black Plague, “killing
thousands of people too poor afford
healthcare” (Johnson, 328).
14. DIRECT QUOTATION VS. PARAPHRASE
Paraphrasing includes ideas from other
sources, but put into your own words:
Battelle’s argument is based on a letter
written by CEO Eric Schmidt. The
memo reveals that Google was focusing
its attention on budgets (Battelle, 153).
15. WHEN CAN I SKIP CITING?
• When you see the same fact
repeated in 3 or more sources
(common knowledge)
• When discussing your own
thoughts and ideas
• When compiling results of research
you’ve done
16. AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Did you
think of Yes.
it?
No.
Is it
common
Yes.
knowledge?
No.
Cite it. Do not cite it.
17. TIPS TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
• Take notes as you read, writing down
authors’ names and book titles as you
paraphrase or quote.
• Put the text aside and try to remember
what the writer said. Write down those
ideas without looking back at the text.
Compare the two versions – yours and
the original. If the meaning changes, try
again. If the language is too similar, try
again. Use your own words before
consulting a dictionary or thesaurus.
