PLAGIARISM

 Copying or using someone else’s work and passing it off as your own  Copying ideas belonging to someone else and not giving credit  Not using quotation marks around quotations WHAT IS IT??

 U.S. Law says that words can be stolen!  According to plagiarism.org:  “The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions.” WHAT IS IT??

 "Types of Plagiarism." Plagiarism.org. WriteCheckBeta, Web. 18 Aug  Clone  Presenting work as own- copied word-for-word  CTRL-C  Copy and paste portions of text without changing words  Find-Replace  Changing key words or phrases, but keeping most of the content  Remix  Taking from several sources and mixing info together  Recycle  Use ideas and words from writer’s previous work without citing 5 TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

 What needs to be put into quotations???  Directly stating something from a text  Include citation info at end- parentheses (author’s last name and page or paragraph number  Another person’s words (from an interview, article, study, etc.)  Quote facts, research/study information,  Quoting more than 4 lines- you need to indent (block off text)  According to Dr. Stevens, “………………..” (Lin, par.2)  In a recent study conducted in the Archives of Internal Medicine, “……………….” (Lin, par. 3) QUOTING

 Information found from numerous sources  Information so well-known  Considered common knowledge= does not need to be cited COMMON KNOWLEDGE

 President Barack Obama is the 44 th President of the United States of America. He was the first African American sworn in as President.  In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents.  COMMON OR NOT??

 By the time it ended in Confederate surrender in 1865, the Civil War proved to be the costliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and the population and territory of the South devastated.  The Civil War took place from Fighting occurred between the Union and the Confederate States of America.  COMMON OR NOT?

 About 208,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.25% of that population.  Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of Americans of different age groups.  slabnav#sthash.UdzTAs4g.dpuf COMMON OR NOT?

 Plan Ahead  Outline; balance own ideas with facts found in research  Take Effective Notes  Record page numbers, web addresses, authors/publishers, dates  Learn to Paraphrase  Must change words and structure of sentence  Still need citation  When in doubt- CITE YOUR SOURCES PREVENTION

 QUOTING HELP

 In your notebook, answer the following question: Why is preventing plagiarism important? Include what plagiarism is and then explain why it must be prevented. FINAL THOUGHT