Recognizing and Avoiding Bad Practice Edel Sherratt
What is Plagiarism? Aberystwyth University statement on Plagiarism issues/exam-assess/handbook/section-13/ issues/exam-assess/handbook/section-13/
JISC/PlagiarismAdvice.org ments/FAQ.pdf ments/FAQ.pdf
Wikipedia
Cornell University rcises.cfm rcises.cfm There are many more excellent tutorials and quizzes provided by the US universities
Cardiff University
University of East Anglia
Cambridge m.html m.html
Aberystwyth University sm/ sm/
Bodging It Some students cut and paste text from the web Then they modify the text until it passes a plagiarism checker … like Plagium: or or or Is this a problem?
What about this?
Or this?
Better ways to avoid plagiarism Always keep track of what you’ve read; develop annotated bibliographies Always give credit where credit is due; this includes images and ideas as well as text! Make sure you understand what you are paraphrasing. When you make a claim or state a fact, see if you can find any authoritative evidence to back it up.
Citation and reference Different styles – footnotes, end of chapter, end of book or paper Two common styles in science are Harvard and IEEE
Harvard citation style In the text (the citation) – '… (Jones, 2010)' or – '… as described by Jones (2010)' In the bibliography – Jones, I.W., (2010) 'New kinds of red ink', Inky Journal of Pigments, Poppleton University Press, vol 336, no. 5, pp Example from Edel Sherratt, ‘Writing an MSc Dissertation’ PGM0120, SEM1020, CHM1320, 2010, 2011
IEEE citation style In the text (the citation) – '… [7]' or – '… as described by Jones [7]‘ In the bibliography – [7] Jones, I.W., 'New kinds of red ink', Inky Journal of Pigments, Poppleton University Press, vol 336, no. 5, pp 55-58, March 2010 Example from Edel Sherratt, ‘Writing an MSc Dissertation’, SEM1020, CHM1320, PGM0120, 2010 and 2011
Ask for help When in doubt, ask the person who set the work Or your research supervisor Or a tutor Or a member of the library