This document discusses plagiarism, defining it as using others' work and ideas without proper citation. It provides examples of famous plagiarism cases and discusses why plagiarism is unethical. The document encourages giving proper citations, quoting and paraphrasing correctly, and avoiding plagiarism by managing time and asking for help with citations.

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

2. But the question is—can you not? ?

6. 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

8. 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.

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

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

17. 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?

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

24. 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 .