1. Do Now: Read through the original text
Do Now: Read through the original text. In a few moments you will be asked to decide whether a given use of the text is plagiarism.
The original text from Elaine Tyler May's "Myths and Realities of the American Family" reads as follows:
Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate.

3. Is this plagiarism?
Since women's wages often continue to reflect the mistaken notion that men are the main wage earners in the family, single mothers rarely make enough to support themselves and their children very well. Also, because work is still based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for child care remain woefully inadequate in the United States.
There is too much direct borrowing of sentence structure and wording. The writer changes some words, drops one phrase, and adds some new language, but the overall text closely resembles May's. Even with a citation, the writer is still plagiarizing because the lack of quotation marks indicates that Version A is a paraphrase, and should thus be in the writer's own language.

4. Is this plagiarism?
As Elaine Tyler May points out, "women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage" (588). Thus many single mothers cannot support themselves and their children adequately. Furthermore, since work is based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for day care in this country are still "woefully inadequate." (May 589).
The writer now cites May, so we're closer to telling the truth about the relationship of our text to the source, but this text continues to borrow too much language.

5. Is this plagiarism?
By and large, our economy still operates on the mistaken notion that men are the main breadwinners in the family. Thus, women continue to earn lower wages than men. This means, in effect, that many single mothers cannot earn a decent living. Furthermore, adequate day care is not available in the United States because of the mistaken assumption that mothers remain at home with their children.
Shows good paraphrasing of wording and sentence structure, but May's original ideas are not acknowledged. Some of May's points are common knowledge (women earn less than men, many single mothers live in poverty), but May uses this common knowledge to make a specific and original point and her original conception of this idea is not acknowledged.

6. Is this plagiarism?
Women today still earn less than men — so much less that many single mothers and their children live near or below the poverty line. Elaine Tyler May argues that this situation stems in part from "the fiction that men earn the family wage" (588). May further suggests that the American workplace still operates on the assumption that mothers with children stay home to care for them (589).
This assumption, in my opinion, does not have the force it once did. More and more businesses offer in-house day-care facilities. . .
The writer makes use of the common knowledge in May's work, but acknowledges May's original conclusion and does not try to pass it off as his or her own. The quotation is properly cited, as is a later paraphrase of another of May's ideas.

7. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of students
believe that cheaters are either never caught
or have never been appropriately disciplined.
The horror!!!
A national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of students admitted to plagiarizing from the internet; 74% of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious" cheating; and 47% of students believe their teachers sometimes choose to ignore students who are cheating.
The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next (Free Press, July 1996) states that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989.

8. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?

9. Intentional Unintentional Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism? I hate
writing.
Intentional
Unintentional

10. Sources not cited Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
1. "The Ghost Writer"
The writer turns in another's work,
word-for-word, as his or her own.
2. "The Photocopy"
The writer copies significant portions of text straight
from a single source, without alteration.
3. "The Potluck Paper"
The writer tries to disguise plagiarism by copying
from several different sources, tweaking the sentences
to make them fit together.
4. "The Poor Disguise"
Although the writer has retained the essential content
of the source, he or she has altered the paper's
appearance slightly by changing key words and phrases.
5. "The Labor of Laziness"
The writer takes the time to paraphrase
from other sources and make it all fit together.
6. "The Self-Stealer"
The writer "borrows" generously from
his or her previous work, violating
policies concerning the expectation of originality.
I hate
writing.
Sources
not cited

11. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
1. "The Forgotten Footnote"
The writer mentions an author's name for a source,
but neglects to include specific information on the
location of the material referenced.
2. "The Misinformer"
The writer provides inaccurate information regarding
the sources, making it impossible to find them.
3. "The Too-Perfect Paraphrase"
The writer properly cites a source, but neglects to put
in quotation marks text that has been
copied word-for-word, or close to it.
4. "The Resourceful Citer"
The writer properly cites all sources, paraphrasing
and using quotations appropriately. The catch?
The paper contains almost no original work!
5. "The Perfect Crime"
In this case, the writer properly quotes and cites
sources in some places, but goes on to paraphrase
other arguments from those sources without citation.
Sources Cited
but Still Plagiarism

12. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
Here’s the ORIGINAL text, from page 1 of
Lizzie Borden: A Case Book of Family and Crime in the 1890s
by Joyce Williams et al.:
The rise of industry, the growth of cities, and the expansion of the population were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history. As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and provided jobs for a rising tide of immigrants. With industry came urbanization the growth of large cities (like Fall River, Massachusetts, where the Bordens lived) which became the centers of production as well as of commerce and trade.
The increase of industry, the growth of cities, and the explosion of the population were three large factors of nineteenth century America. As steam-driven companies became more visible in the eastern part of the country,
they changed farm hands into factory workers and provided jobs for the large wave of immigrants. With industry came the growth of large cities like Fall River
where the Bordens lived which turned into centers of commerce and trade as well as production.

13. ·The writer has only changed around a few words and phrases,
The increase of industry, the growth of cities, and the explosion of the population were three large factors of nineteenth century America. As steam-driven companies became more visible in the eastern part of the country,
they changed farm hands into factory workers and provided jobs for the large wave of immigrants. With industry came the growth of large cities like Fall River
where the Bordens lived which turned into centers of commerce and trade as well as production.
I hate
writing.
·The writer has only changed around
a few words and phrases,
or changed the order of the original’s sentences.
·The writer has failed to cite a source
for any of the ideas or facts.

14. Paraphrasing Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
·using someone’s ideas, but putting them in your own words. (as opposed to Common Knowledge).
·This is probably the skill you will use most when incorporating sources into your writing.
·Although you use your own words to paraphrase, you must still acknowledge the source of the information.

15. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
Here’s an ACCEPTABLE paraphrase:
Fall River, where the Borden family lived,
was typical of northeastern industrial
cities of the nineteenth century.
Steam-powered production
had shifted labor from agriculture to manufacturing, and as immigrants
arrived in the US, they found
work in these new factories.
As a result, populations grew,
and large urban areas arose.
Fall River was one of these
manufacturing and commercial centers
(Williams 1).

16. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
Here’s an example of quotation and paraphrase used together, which is also ACCEPTABLE:
Fall River, where the Borden family lived, was typical of northeastern industrial cities of the nineteenth century. As steam-powered production shifted labor from agriculture to manufacturing, the demand for workers "transformed farm hands into industrial laborers," and created jobs for immigrants. In turn, growing populations increased the size of urban areas. Fall River was one of these hubs "which became the centers of production as well as of commerce and trade" (Williams 1).

17. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?
·Put in quotations everything that comes directly from the text especially when taking notes.
·Paraphrase, but be sure you are not just rearranging or replacing a few words.
·Check your paraphrase against the original text to be sure you have not accidentally used the same phrases or words, and that the information is accurate.

19. Original: Those complexes that contain unpaired electrons are attracted into a magnetic field and are said to be paramagnetic,
while those with no unpaired electrons are repelled by such a field and are called diamagnetic
Student: Complexes that contain unpaired electrons are those that are attracted to a magnetic field. These are called paramagnetic, while those with no unpaired electrons are repelled by a magnetic field and are said to be diamagnetic."

20. Original: Those complexes that contain unpaired electrons are attracted into a magnetic field and are said to be paramagnetic,
while those with no unpaired electrons are repelled by such a field and are called diamagnetic
Student: Those complexes that contain paired electrons are repelled by a magnetic field and are said to be diamagnetic, whereas those with no paired electrons are attracted to such a field and are called paramagnetic

21. Original: Those complexes that contain unpaired electrons are attracted into a magnetic field and are said to be paramagnetic,
while those with no unpaired electrons are repelled by such a field and are called diamagnetic
Students: Compounds that have unpaired electrons are attracted to a magnetic field and are called paramagnetic. Compounds with no unpaired electrons are repelled by this field and are said to be diamagnetic

22. Aim: How do you avoid plagiarism?