Bell Ringer #23 11/18 & 11/19  What is Plagiarism and how can it be avoided?  Why should we promote “academic honesty” (not cheating and recognizing others for their work)?

What is Plagiarism?What is Plagiarism?  Definition : The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.  Essentially, if you take credit for someone else’s work, it is considered cheating. In college you can be expelled and “blacklisted” and in the professional world you could get in legal trouble.  We avoid plagiarism by giving credit to the source of our information by citing our sources!

Is it Plagiarism if…Is it Plagiarism if…  I copy and paste something word for word?  I copy and paste but I cite my source?  I read something for information but put it in my own words without citing it?  I turn in a paper I didn’t write?  YES! These are all examples of plagiarism.

When to CiteWhen to Cite  When you quote something, you must give credit by citing your source.  When you copy something word-for-word, you must give credit by citing your source along with quotation marks.  When you paraphrase someone's ideas, you must give them credit by citing your source  When you summarize someone's ideas, you must give them credit by citing your source

When not to CiteWhen not to Cite  Original ideas or research  Common knowledge  Things that are easily observed  Common sayings/clichés

Citation StylesCitation Styles  There are many ways to cite your sources  You will be using the MLA Format  At the end of your project, you will submit of copy of your Bibliography to me  This will count as a Tier Four grade, and you will be assessed on the MYP I & S Criterion D: Communicating

How to Use MLAHow to Use MLA  Book  Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name.  Title of Book.  City of publication:  Name of publisher,  Year.  Medium. (What it is made of?) Pentzak, Joseph. Why Is Mr. Pentzak So Awesome? Statesville: Northview Press, Print.

How to Use MLAHow to Use MLA  Magazine Article  Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name.  “Title of Article.”  Name of periodical.  Day Month (abrv).  Year.  Medium.  Date Acessed (if web)  Carter, Shawn. "I Discovered My 100th Problem." Fake Lyfe 1 Apr Web.

How to Use MLAHow to Use MLA  Website  Author and/or editor names (if available)  “Article Title.”  Title of the Website.  Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.  Publisher Name.  Medium.  Date you accessed the material.  Aristotle. “Poetics.” Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept Web. 4 Nov ‹

“I can’t find…”“I can’t find…”  Sometimes you will not find all the citation information  Step one: double check somewhere else!  Step two: “n.p.” for no publisher or “n.d.” for no date, leave author blank if there is no identified author  Step three: if you cannot find ANY information about the source, do you think it is a good, reliable source?

Quick RemindersQuick Reminders  Punctuation ALWAYS goes inside quotation marks (example: Mr. Pentzak yelled, “YOLO!” and he jumped out of the moving van. OR Ms. Brinkley confessed, “Mr. Pentzak is the coolest teacher ever.”  Do not indent the first line of a citation, if it goes onto a second line, indent that one.  Citation builder websites may not always be correct. Always write citations yourself!

Works CitedWorks Cited  The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, Web. 17 Nov  Citing Your Sources. Oxforf College Library. Web. 17 Nov plagiarism/citing.html > plagiarism/citing.html  This is PP and the formatting is slightly off