The document discusses plagiarism and how to avoid it. Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own without giving them credit. It is considered stealing, lying, and a violation of copyright laws. To avoid plagiarism, you should not copy and paste from websites or retype sources without citation. Instead, you should paraphrase sources in your own words and attribute the information. When directly quoting sources, use quotation marks and provide citations. The document also provides examples of proper paraphrasing and using citations.

2. What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas
as your own

3. Why shouldn’t I plagiarize?
Plagiarism is fraud
• Stealing: work belongs to someone else
• Lying: presenting another’s work as your
own
What have you learned?
• Haven’t learned content
• No opportunity to practice and improve
writing

4. How can I avoid plagiarism?
Don’t cut and paste from a website or retype
something from a print source
Don’t use or buy someone else’s paper
Paraphrase and attribute
Use quotes and citations

5. Cut and Paste
Teachers check papers against online
databases that will reveal work copied from
websites
Teachers recognize your writing and will know
if it isn’t yours
What should you do instead?

6. Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing is rewriting something in your
own words
Must change words and sentence structure
Must attribute information to a source

7. Paraphrase practice
From plagiarism.com
• “Simply put, plagiarism is the use of another's original
words or ideas as though they were your own. Any
time you borrow from an original source and do not
give proper credit, you have committed plagiarism
and violated U.S. copyright laws.”
My paraphrase:
• According to plagiarism.com, plagiarism happens any
time you present someone else’s work as if it was
yours. If you don’t give credit to a source, it is a
violation of copyright laws.

8. Using Quotes and Citations
You can use someone else’s words if you put them in
quotation marks and cite the source.
Examples:
• According to plagiarism.com, “plagiarism is the use of
another's original words or ideas as though they were your
own. “
• It is a violation of copyright law to present “another’s
original words or ideas as though they were your own”
because it is considered plagiarism, (plagiarism.com).

9. Putting it Together
Use a combination of quotations and
paraphrasing in your paper
Analyze the information and include your own
thoughts and ideas
Create a Works Cited page at the end of your
paper listing all sources you used

10. And above all …
ASK ME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS!

11. Works Cited
“What is Plagiarism?” Plagiarism.org. Accessed
12 Dec 2010.
<http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/w
hat_is_plagiarism.html>
“What is Plagiarism?” SSS Library Research
Guides. Accessed 12 Dec 2010.
<http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/content.php
?pid=50827&sid=386249>