1. Reinventing research and education Linköping University Avoiding Unintentional Pitfalls of Academic Honesty (15 minutes) Mikael.Rosell@liu.se Linköping University Library

2. How does Academic Honesty affect your writing? Academic Honesty = an attitude toward research and academic studies

3. Cite & refer: why? Giving credit to the original author Strengthen your arguments Increase your credibility Make it possible to verify information Avoid plagiarism The increasing frequency of massive hurricanes and storms are due to the emission of greenhouse gases [*]. * add reference to a source or own empirical data! 3

4. Plagiarism: What is it? ”Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work, whether intentionally or unintentionally, as your own for your own benefit.” Carroll, J. (2002) A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education (Oxford Brookes University) 4

5. ”Someone else´s work” ? Includes physical people, companies, the internet, paper writing services, ghostwriters… Text, numbers, figures, tables… Directly copied, paraphrased, modified… Written, spoken… 5

6. QUIZ Is it plagiarism if you... 1.Copy and paste a paragraph of text from a web site without enclosing it in quotation marks and referencing the source? 2.Use the ideas of another author without providing a reference, even if you write them in your own words? 3.Claim work produced by another student as your own? 4.Copy a diagram or data table from a web site, providing a reference for the source underneath? 5.Submit all or part of one essay for two separate assignments? 6.Copy words from a book into your own work, but place quotation marks around them and provide a citation? 7.Include a fact or saying in your assignment which is generally known without providing a reference? 8.Incorporate text from another source, changing one or two words and providing a citation? 6 http://www.bibl.liu.se/upphovsratt-och-plagiering

7. Plagiarism: How to avoid it? -Cite & refer! in-text citations and bibliography Output styles Oxford, Harvard, Vancouver Consistency & correct!

8. Keep in mind… What thoughts are your own? Save your references! Strengthening an argument! Better understanding– Better quality – Better grades! If you have questions, just ask!

9. Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer ! - Resources at LiU! Cite & refer ! Linköping University Library. Citation styles. http://www.bibl.liu.se/citera-och- referera/citeringsteknik?l=en Linköping University Library. RefWorks. http://www.bibl.liu.se/RefWorks. Copyright and Plagiarism! Linköping University Library. Copyright and plagiarism. http://www.bibl.liu.se/upphovsratt-och-plagiering?l=en Academic English Support at Linköping University Linköping University http://www.liu.se/ikk/aes?l=en&sc=true 9

10. Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer ! Carroll, Jude, Zetterling, Carl-Mikael, (2009), Guiding students away from plagiarism, KTH Learning Lab, http://people.kth.se/~ambe/KTH/Guidingstudents.pdf Blekinge Institute of Technology, The easy guide to referencing, http://tuba.bth.se/stora/Writing/reference/ Murray, Rowena, (2006), The handbook of academic writing : a fresh approach, Open University Press 10

11. Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer ! Umeå University Library, Writing References - Oxford System http://www.ub.umu.se/en/write/references/writing-references- oxford Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Harvard Style guide http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/studyhelp/harvard_style.html National Library of Medicine, USA, Vancouver system http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html 11

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