UNR Anthropology Graduate Student Orientation Library Resources and Plagiarism Guidance
1. UNR Anthropology
Graduate Student Orientation:
Library Resources and Plagiarism Guidance
JEREMY FLOYD, METADATA LIBRARIAN, ANTHROPOLOGY LIAISON
JFLOYD@UNR.EDU
2. Plagiarism Defined
See GRADUATE STUDENT MANUAL, Department of Anthropology page 16
Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work as one's own. Any
ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must
be fully acknowledged.
Do not need to cite:
Your own lived experiences, observations, thoughts, and conclusions
Your own research, such as results from experiments or field observations
Your own photographs, video, audio, or other media
Common knowledge and general accepted facts
Unintentional Plagiarism may result from the disregard for or unawareness of proper
scholarly procedures, including using sources correctly and citing those sources.
3. Avoiding Plagiarism
Ways to get information from sources into your paper
Quoting – using an author’s exact words
Paraphrasing – putting an author’s ideas into your own
words
Summarizing – putting an author’s ideas into your own
words in a shorter format
4. Quoting
Choose passages that either seem especially
well phrased or are unique to the author or
subject matter.
Be selective in your quotations.
Integrate your quotes into your writing.
You don’t have to quote a whole passage. Use
ellipses (…) to indicate words left out.
5. Paraphrasing
Don’t just take a passage and change a word
here or there.
Read the passage, reflect upon it, and restate it.
Look away from your sources.
Paraphrase and then go back and check. Are
there any phrases that have come directly from
the text?
6. Summarizing
Ask yourself:
What is the main idea that the author is trying to
convey?
What idea does all of the supporting evidence
point to?
What is most important to me in the context in
which I am writing?
7. Further Sources on Plagiarism
Purdue Online Writing Lab (2013). Is it plagiarism yet?
Purdue University. Retrieved from
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/2/
Indiana University School of Education (2016) How to
Recognize Plagiarism. Retrieved from
https://www.indiana.edu/~academy/firstPrinciples/index.html
UNR Libraries (2012). The Writing Process: Style Manuals,
Documenting Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism. Retrieved
from https://youtu.be/93OHPIqbPPE
9. Library Resources
New Library Website – your portal for finding all of library resources
and services (sorry its all new, but hopefully improved)
Anthropology Library Guide – Anthropology specific resources and
databases
Manuscripts & Archives Collection Guides – primary source
materials held at UNR, many collections relevant to
archaeological, socio/cultural and linguistic research
Interlibrary Loan/Campus express – get materials not held by the
Libraries/receive scanned copies of materials available only in print
10. Even More Library Resources
Library Acquisitions – forms to request books, media and
subscriptions to resources (journals, databases) also may send
request directly to me: jfloyd@unr.edu
Student-facing Services – Get research help, reserve a room,
find out what software is available. And you can always make
an appointment with me for a one on one research consolation
Faculty and Graduate Student Carrels – limited number of
private carrels and lockers available for research, checked out
for a year at a time
11. And a 3rd Page of Library Resources
Poster Printing – for professional presentations, departmental
activities – not for Non-UNR affiliated activities or monetary
gain
Equipment Loan – audio/video, computing, lighting,
presentation tools
DeLaMare Library – 3d printing, scanning, vinyl and laser
cutting, microcontrollers, electronics and soldering tools,
virtual and augmented reality tools
12. Thank you,
and Welcome to UNR
JEREMY FLOYD
JFLOYD@UNR.EDU
@JJAMESFLOYD
link to presentation:
bit.ly/2bGds5R
