Plagiarism: How Can We Avoid It? Strategies for Conducting Ethical Research

What is plagiarism? to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

So . . . How DO we Avoid Literary Jail?

Attribute, Attribute, Attribute Three ways to use research appropriately in your project or writing #1 Direct Quote #2 Paraphrase – along with mention of the source and a bibliographic citation. #3 Summary – along with mention of the source and bibliographic citation

Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper) #1 - Direct quote ( to use the exact wording from your source, and correctly punctuate it with quotation marks) When would you use this strategy?

Writer’s wording is “just perfect” so you want to capture it exactly When quoting words from a novel, poem or other work “Men at some times are masters of their fates.” Julius Caesar (I. ii. 140)

#2 - Paraphrasing Three Ways to Insert Research into your paper What is paraphrasing?

Paraphrasing: In a few Words Paraphrase- (v) to restate written information, giving the same meaning in another form. Source must be cited.

What paraphrasing is NOT: Just changing a few words here and there by finding synonyms Rearranging the sentences into a different order

How do we Paraphrase? First – read the original thoroughly Next – make sure you understand it; reread parts on which you are unclear. Finally - put it away! Write what you think it says without looking at the original article.

Group Practice

When would you use this strategy? Three Ways to Insert Research into your paper #2 - Paraphrasing When would you use this strategy?

When. . . exact wording is too detailed the way it’s worded isn’t special details of the article are still important

#3 – Summarizing ■ What is summarizing? Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper) #3 – Summarizing ■ What is summarizing?

What is in a Summary? Major points from the. . . Main idea Beginning, the Middle, and the End . . .of the text you are summarizing. Always include the . . . Main idea . . . of the text you are summarizing.

#3 – Summarizing When would you use this strategy? Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper) #3 – Summarizing When would you use this strategy?

When you want to relay: information from a large article a basic overview of the information you read. only the main idea and key points of the article, instead of specific details.

Source Information http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20030904thursday.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html Paragraph (Rimer 1).