PSY 219 – Academic Writing in Psychology Fall Çağ University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology Inst. Nilay Avcı Week 4

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 2 What is it and why is it a problem? How to recognize and avoid it?

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 3 What is plagiarism?

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 4 Plagiarism In academic work plagiarism can be a serious offence. Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense.

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 5 Plagiarism taking information or ideas from another writer and using them in your own work, without acknowledging the source in an accepted manner the process of taking another person’s work, ideas, or words, and using them as if they were your own

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 6 Plagiarism to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 7 In other words, plagiarism: is an act of fraud. involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 8 Why plagiarism?.

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PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 10 Why plagiarism? not enough time to complete the assignment (procrastination, poor time management skills, or a busy schedule outside of school can all contribute to this) laziness lack of fundamental research skills

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 11 Why plagiarism? careless research methods (e.g. failing to document sources used during the research process) a fear of that one’s own academic abilities are not adequate, leading one to seek a superior product perceived pressure from external forces (parents, friends, scholarship committees, etc.) to maintain high grades

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 12 Why plagiarism? a perceived lack of punishment by the instructor or the institution because cheating is perceived as acceptable in today’s society, as a way to ‘get ahead’ because it is easy to do

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 13 Types of Plagiarism.

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 14 Intentional Plagiarism vs. Unintentional Plagiarism

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 15 Intentional (Deliberate) Plagiarism rewriting from books or articles copying and pasting from web pages and online sources to create a patchwork writing cutting and pasting blocks of text without citing the source

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 16 Intentional (Deliberate) Plagiarism copying a friend’s work (such as papers, tests) buying, downloading, or borrowing a paper publishing the work on the web without permission of the creator

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 17 Unintentional (Accidental) Plagiarism incomplete or careless quoting or paraphrasing none/incomplete documentation quoting too much from source no use of your own ideas

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 18 Unintentional (Accidental) Plagiarism not knowing when and how to cite not knowing how to paraphrase or summarize not knowing what “common knowledge” is recycling an old paper - taking work you’ve created elsewhere and turning it in again without changes.

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 19 But can words and ideas really be stolen? According to U.S. law, the answer is yes. The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way (such as a book or a computer file).

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 20 All of the following are considered plagiarism: turning in someone else's work as your own word-for-word copying of another’s work without properly acknowledging the source of information copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 21 All of the following are considered plagiarism: changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not failing to put a quotation in quotation marks

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 22 All of the following are considered plagiarism: submitting material created by another under your name submitting material created by yourself and others but claiming the work entirely as your own giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation

PSY-219 Academic Writing in Psychology 23 Determine whether or not the following are examples of plagiarism

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