1. Freshman Seminar September 2017
Plagiarism
Freshman Seminar
September 2017

2. Journal Entries
Put today’s date at the top of the next open page in your journal
The title of the page is: Plagiarism
Write what comes to mind when you hear the word Plagiarism
Talk with your neighbor about what you wrote
Add new ideas that you heard from your neighbor
Share with class what you know or just learned about Plagiarism

3. Why we are here today? Define plagiarism
Understand why plagiarism is a problem
Identify the most common means of plagiarizing
Identify the consequences of plagiarizing
Learn ways to avoid plagiarizing

4. Plagiarism defined Steal or pass off someone else’s work as your own
Latin—plagiarius = kidnapper
Greek—plagium =a kidnapping
(Oxford UP)

5. What’s the big deal?
Harms the ORIGINAL AUTHOR; stealing the ideas, words or works of another person
Harms the READER; cannot look at original sources and deprives them of the opportunity to learn
Hurts YOU, the student; missed opportunity to learn; research is a learning process; harms your reputation
(Cosumnes River College Library)

6. Deliberate Plagiarism
Copying and pasting from webpages and online resources
Rewriting from books or articles
Downloading or borrowing a paper

7. Accidental Plagiarism
Not knowing when or how to cite
Not knowing how to paraphrase or summarize
Recycling an old paper

8. Plagiarism—Don’t Do It!
Former
Vice President
Joe Biden

9. Plagiarism—Don’t Do It!
Melania Trump Michelle Obama

10. Plagiarism—Blurred Lines!
Robin Thicke
Marvin Gaye

11. Del Campo High School Rules Academic Honor Code
Failure of the assignment
Drop in citizenship grade
Teacher/Parent Conferences
Suspension or expulsion
(for very serious offenses)

12. How to Avoid Plagiarizing
Paraphrase with (in text citations)
Place “quotation marks” around direct quotes from your sources
Give credit through (in text citations) and a Works Cited page

13. Identifying plagiarism
Original Passage
At the start of the Great Depression, many Americans wanted to believe that the hard times would be only temporary.
Plagiarism or Not?
At the beginning of the Great Depression, a lot of Americans wanted to think that the hard times would be only temporary.
Kardick-Identifying Plagiarism

14. Identifying plagiarism
Original Passage
A letter of thanks is a courteous acknowledgment of a gift or of something that was done for you.
Plagiarism or Not?
A thank you note is a polite acknowledgment of a present or something nice someone did for you.
Kardick-Identifying Plagiarism

15. Identifying plagiarism
Original Passage
He was a very silent man by custom.
Plagiarism or Not?
He was usually a quiet person.
Kardick-Identifying Plagiarism

16. Works Cited
Avoiding Plagiarism, Cosumnes River College Library, 2011, Accessed 9 Sept
Ferreiro, Laura. "Marvin Gaye’s Family Countersues Robin Thicke over ‘Blurred Lines’." Yahoo! Music, 30 Oct. 2013, Accessed 2 Oct
"File:Official Portrait of Vice President Joe Biden.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, 10 Jan. 2013, Accessed 3 Oct
Grow, Kory. "Robin Thicke, Pharrell Lose Multi-Million Dollar 'Blurred Lines' Lawsuit." Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2015, Accessed 2 Oct
"Joe Biden Presidential Campaign, 1988." Wikipedia, 10 Sept. 2016, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign,_1988. Accessed 2 Oct
Kardick, Maria. "Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing." ReadWriteThink, NCTE, 2007, Accessed 21 Sept
Krieg, Gregory, et al. "No One to Be Fired after Melania Trump Speech Plagiarism Episode." CNN Politics, Turner Broadcasting, 19 July 2016, Accessed 2 Oct
"Plagiarism." Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford UP, 2015, Accessed 10 Sept
Ramos, Marisol. "Plagiarism-What Is It and How to Avoid It?" How to Cite Properly & Avoid Plagiarism, UConn Libraries, 11 June 2015, classguides.lib.uconn.edu/plagiarism. Accessed 21 Sept
"Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines VS Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it Up." YouTube, uploaded by Josh Chesterfield, 1 Nov. 2013, Accessed 2 Oct