Ls 620 chapter 7.ppt

1. Chapter 7
Building Credibility
• Avoiding Plagiarism
and Other source
Abuses

2. Avoiding Plagiarism and Other source
Abuses
• What is credibility and why does it matter in
research?
• What makes a piece of research writing
credible?
• How does plagiarism relate to credibility?

3. Developing Credibility through Source
Use
• Credibility is defined as the degree to which
someone or something is deemed trustworthy
and believable.
• Plagiarism does the most serious damage to
your credibility.
• Writing with Poor Use of Sources
• Writing with Strong use of Sources

4. Recognizing Plagiarism
• Professors who assign research
papers to students have the
difficult task of verifying that
students wrote the paper
themselves, rather than copying or
plagiarizing the information from
another source.
• http://turnitin.com/

5. What is Plagiarism?
• Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of the
words or ideas of others.
– Submitting paper you didn’t write
– Pasting chunks of source and passing them off as
your own work
– Using summaries, paraphrases, or quotations
without documenting
– Using the exact phrasing of a source without
quotation marks
– Mixing up source material and your own ideas-
– What does plagiarism look like?

6. Why is Plagiarism so Serious?
• Academic Dishonesty
• Robs the Academic Community
• Robs You Now
• Robs You in the Future

7. How Do you Avoid Plagiarizing in Your
Writing?
• Resist temptation
• Play by the rules
• Take orderly, accurate notes
• Document borrowed material
• Work carefully with source material in your
paper.

8. What Other Source abuses Should You
Avoid?
• Using Sources Inaccurately
• Using Source Material Out of Context
• Overusing source Material
• “Plunking” Quotations
• Relying Heavily on One source
• Using Blanket Citations
• Failing to Match In-Text Citations
• Fabricating or Falsifying Research

9. What Other Academic Violations
Should You Avoid?
• Double-Dipping
• Falstaffing
• Copyright Violations
• Human societies are built on trust. The more
complex the society, the greater level of trust
required.