Recognizing Plagiarism
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This document discusses plagiarism, including defining it, when it occurs, what causes it, how to avoid it, and how it is detected. Plagiarism is defined as presenting another's work as one's own without proper citation or acknowledgement. It occurs when passages, words, or ideas are used without attribution. To avoid plagiarism, all intellectual property and ideas obtained from sources must be properly cited. Plagiarism can be detected through services that check for matching text or inconsistencies in writing style within a paper.
Recognizing Plagiarism
- 1. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Recognizing Plagiarism
- 2. What is plagiarism? When does plagiarism occur? What causes plagiarism? What needs to be cited? When does something need to be cited? How is plagiarism detected? How is it prevented? Recognizing Plagiarism: This module answers the following questions: Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
- 3. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism “Plagiarism is intentionally or unintentionally giving the impression that words or ideas from another source are your own” (Clines & Cobb, 2006,p.21). “Plagiarism is the act of passing off another’s words and ideas as your own” (Winkler & McCuen, 2003,p.93). What is plagiarism? Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 4. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism “Plagiarism” means the unacknowledged use of words, ideas or creations of another and includes situations where the student reuses without acknowledgement their own previously written text, ideas or creations when writing any new work. As defined in the UWI Regulations on Plagiarism for Graduate Students: Recognizing Plagiarism: The University recognizes two levels of plagiarism: Level 1: where small quantities of the work are affected and/or the breaches are minor, such as poor paraphrasing or incorrect or missing citations. Level 2: where large quantities of the work are affected and/or the breaches are serious, such as when attribution is insufficient to indicate that the borrowed material is not the work of the student.
- 5. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism What is plagiarism? A form of academic dishonesty The act of not acknowledging the author or source of information, ideas, words or data The act of claiming another’s work as one’s own The act of using another’s words or ideas without proper citation The act of having a third party write one’s paper The act of reusing one’s own material without acknowledgement Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 6. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism When does plagiarism occur? Plagiarism occurs when: Entire passages are incorporated into papers without proper citation Word-for-word use of content is not enclosed in quotation marks Passages are paraphrased or summarized without proper citation Sources are misrepresented Personal opinions are attributed to a published source Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 7. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism What causes plagiarism? Assuming that information is “common knowledge” Assuming that rewording a passage “makes it your own” Forgetting to record source citations when taking notes from several articles Using “cut and paste” techniques when note-taking Interjecting your opinions or reactions into a summary of a source Changing the tone of a source to benefit your message Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 8. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism What needs to be cited? All intellectual property Common knowledge (if quoted, paraphrased or summarized from a published source) Copyrighted material Public domain material Facts obtained from published sources Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 9. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism When does something need to be cited? If you are using someone else’s: Original words Ideas which you summarize or paraphrase Interesting or unique word, term or phrase Graphic, map, chart, figure, table or photograph Advertisement or cartoon Ideas from a lecture or speech Ideas from an interview or conversation Experiment or results from an experiment Ideas from videos, films, or television programs Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 10. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Common Sense: “It is not the length of the writing that determines whether you give credit to a source; it’s whether or not you use its phrasing or ideas in your research paper” (Winkler & McCuen, 2003, p.94). Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 11. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism How is plagiarism detected? Electronically Services like turnitin.com Manually Incongruence in writing styles with other course activities or previous papers Changes in voice or tone in written passages Currency of citation dates Obsolescence of hyperlinks Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 12. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism How is plagiarism prevented? Disciplinary consequences for violations Assignment construction Creating new assignments every term Requiring submission of source documents with assignments Student education Tutorials and information provided Practice in recognition Development of better writing and note-taking skills Recognizing Plagiarism:
- 13. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Source Materials Sources on Plagiarism: Aaron, J.E. (2004). The little, brown compact handbook (5th ed.). New York: Pearson-Longman. American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. Clines, R.H., & Cobb, E.R. (2006). Research writing simplified: A documentation guide (5th ed.). New York: Pearson-Longman. Winkler, A.C., & McCuen, J.R. (2003). Writing the research paper: A handbook (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Thomson/Heinle.