Research Ethics “ When you steal from one author, it's called PLAGIARISM, When you steal from many, it's called RESEARCH.” -Wilson Mizner-

Research = Information  Rights & responsibilities for owners and users:  Copyright & Fair Use  Citations (Documentation)

Copyright & Fair Use  Legal right to publish and sell a literary, artistic, or musical work   Protects the authors / publishers   Allow for the use of intellectual property within limits  Distribution  Amount copied  Loss of revenue

Plagiarism  Using an essay from the Web  Taking ideas from a source without proper citation  Copying information from a source with citations, but leaving out quotation marks Taking someone else’s ideas and claiming them as your own, whether intentional or not

Citations – why?  Keep track of sources used  Give credit to the author  Support your argument with informed sources  Allow reader to find the source

Citations – when?  Summarizing, paraphrasing or quoting  Including information that is not general knowledge

Citation – what? Information about a publication  Title  Author  Publisher  Copyright date  any other data that would be useful in locating the item

Citation Styles  Format for arranging title, author, etc.  Rules vary by academic discipline  MLA - Modern Language Association  Chicago – Turabian, preferred by historians  APA - American Psychological Association  ACS - American Chemical Society

MLA Style Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Knopf, OR Note: Indentation 3 statements: Author. Title. Publishing Information.

Why use the MLA standard?  commonly used standard in schools and colleges  you are getting the experience of scholarly research  communicate with others so they can trace your work for additional research  not always easy to tell what is the author, what is the title, what is the publisher, etc.

Example: --What is the title of this book? Ouagadougou. Burkina Faso. Ofilia Aluko. Longman. Aluko, Ofelia. Burkina Faso. Ouagadougou: Longman, 1980.

How would you cite this book in the MLA format? Mass politics : the politics of popular culture / edited by Daniel M. Shea New York : St. Martin's, c1999 xii, 161 p. ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references LC SUBJECTS Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States LC SUBJECTS Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States United States -- Social life and customs United States -- Social life and customs LCCN LCCN ISBN (pbk.) ISBN (pbk.) (taken from the UW Libraries catalog)

Group Activity  Look at the resources  Use MLA citation style to document the information source  Check each other’s work  Write up the citation

Beating the Word battle  Remove the auto-underline for web addresses  Create the hanging indent