Plagiarism: the act of presenting another’s work or ideas as your own.

Accidental vs. Deliberate Using someone else’s ideas without citing Buying, stealing or borrowing a paper

District 113 Academic Honesty Policy

HOW do I “put it in my own words”? WHAT do I need to put in my own words?

Common Knowledge If you find the same information undocumented in general reference sources. –Dates –Basic biographical information –Location of commonly known events –Commonly known knowledge in your audience

Research? Combining your original thoughts and other people’s ideas and research. Direct quotes Paraphrasing

Direct Quotes Many people are afraid that allowing parents to choose the genetic traits of their children would have dire consequences. Tim Cannon, a spokesman for the conservative Australian Families Association states, "You start by allowing parents to select the sex of their children, the question is: what's next? Screening for eye color, for intelligence? You'd have to be incredibly naive to think that would be the end of the matter.“ (qtd. In Marriner). Marriner, Cosima. "When parents select baby's sex." Sun-Herald 16 Oct. 2011: 7. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 2 Oct

Direct Quotes Who is the person you are citing? Why are they worth quoting? Vs.

Paraphrasing Your version of information created by someone else. More detailed and longer than summarizing. Paraphases, like quotations, need to be cited. Give credit to the original author.

How to Paraphrase Skim the selection to get the overall meaning. Read it again carefully. List the main ideas in bullet form. Turn selection over face down. Write the paraphrase in your own words, using the most important information. Do not look at the article. Use your bullet points as a guide. Look at the original selection to make sure that you included the ideas but not the author’s phrases and unique words. Put quotations around phrases and unique words you decided not to change. Include the proper citation. Courtesy of Shari Kellogg, DHS English Teacher Sebranek, Patrick, Verne Meyer and Dave Kemper. Writers Inc : A Student Handbook for Writing & Learning. Wilmington, MA : Write Source, 2001.

Quote when you can't say it any better than they did, but paraphrase when you can.

Internal Citations for Electronic Sources: Direct Quotes Author mentioned in a signal phrase: According to author Eric Alterman, “the birth of the first ‘test tube’ baby in 1978 was a milestone in the development of reproductive technologies.” Vs. Author is not mentioned in a signal phrase: Science has come a long way in terms of how it has altered the reproduction process. In the preface of the article, “Are Modern Biomedical Practices Ethical?”, the author states that “the birth of the first ‘test tube’ baby in 1978 was a milestone in the development of reproductive technologies” (Alterman).

Internal Citations for Electronic Sources: Indirect Quotes The debate about when science has gone too far when it comes to human health is a confusing one. As the Theologian Albert Schweitzer stated, “Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life” (qtd. in Alterman). While I feel the benefits of stem cell research outweigh the consequences, I agree that more research still needs to be done.

No Author Use the title/an abbreviated version of the title Embryonic stem cell treatments require “removing stem cells from early stage human embryos and then transforming the cells into other cell types” (“Are Modern”).