Can you cut? Can you paste?

Can you cut? Can you paste? Congratulations! You can plagiarize! Kay Cunningham, Library Director Christian Brothers University Fall 2011

But the question is—can you not? ?

Plagiarism. What is it? ,[object Object],[object Object]

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Who’s done it? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What about Copyright? Two different things Different, but related You can plagiarize without violating copyright, and you can violate copyright without plagiarizing But, you can also plagiarize AND violate copyright

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Ethics And while there are many ethical ways (that is, through FAIR USE) in which you can use copyrighted material, there are NO ethical ways in which you can plagiarize.

How do people do it? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why you shouldn’t do it ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Arrrgh, matey! Just because our mascot’s the Buccaneer, it’s no excuse for you to act like a pirate….

Avoid doing it ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Avoid doing it And ask for help when you need it!

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Paraphrase ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Citations are … anything anyone else would need to find the book or article again. Let me check that out That was interesting; I’d like to read more What a load of I don’t believe that—where’d it come from? I’d like to use some of those ideas myself Who said that?

Common knowledge ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

When in doubt…CITE! If it’s someone else’s idea, whether you quote it directly or paraphrase it, CITE!

CITE! Even if… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],… blood, toil, tears, and… No matter what this guy says, no one’s going to mistake him for Churchill

Actually, ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],… blood, toil, tears, and… No matter what this guy says, no one’s going to mistake him for Churchill

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Contact: Kay Cunningham Plough Library [email_address] Can you cut? Can you paste? by Kay Cunningham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License .

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