avoiding plagiarism

Cindy Cruz-Cabrera

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Define “plagiarism”

Determine the ethics of avoiding plagiarism

Identify types of plagiarism

Discuss how to avoid plagiarism

Comes from the Latin word for THIEF, PLUNDERER, HUNTING NET, and KIDNAPPER

“the outright stealing of another person’s ideas”

Just like your belongings, ideas should be treated with exclusivity and respect

Unlike anything for sale, ideas won’t cost you much

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Submitting a paper bought from somebody who makes it his/her official business to sell papers

Submitting a paper that somebody else has written, whether you paid him/her for it or not

Copying a paper from a source text without acknowledging the source

Retweet RT with comment MT (“modified tweet”)

Issue: multiple meanings HT (“hat tip” or “heard through”) via

To get good grades

To help out a friend

Copying materials from a source text with an acknowledgement but without quotation marks

Paraphrasing materials from a source text without acknowledging the source

Lack of time to check for proper documentation (or simply carelessness)

Lack of awareness about rules for proper documentation

Lack of guidance on the expectations of the academe

Cryptomnesia – false impression that ideas are ours rather than other people’s

Previous research practices which ignore other academic conventions

Lack of practice in the current requirements of academic research

Other sociocultural considerations Language constraints: writing experience,

kinds of writing done, how well the student knows the language

The irrelevant reference list

Stolen references

Bad paraphrasing

Use of quotable quotes

Knowing what to do Right attitude towards research and academic

work What to do?

SELECT and CITE CONTRIBUTE NEW IDEAS TO PREVIOUS

RESEARCH CRITIQUE

Requires that you process all your borrowed materials by

Paraphrasing

Summarizing / precis

Quoting

Acknowledging your sources by mentioning them within the body of your paper and listing them at the end of your paper

Internal

External

More popularly called “summarizing” Concerned with the central idea, the core

information (rather than the details that support it)

COB – comprehensive, objective, brief KISS – keep it short and simple About 1/3 the length of original material “What does the text say in a nutshell?”

“In what way can the text be better understood?”

Rewrite the text in order to simplify it Focus not only on what is said, but also how it

is said Follows the source text point by point, including

central idea and details Breaks information down into manageable

units

Requires Acknowledgement phrase

Parenthetical citation / footnote / endnote

A comment explaining what the quote is about

A QUOTE CANNOT STAND BY ITSELF

Listing of references Bibliography Pertinent information Author’s name. Title of the Book. Place of

Publication: Publisher, year published / copyright.

Ventura, Eloisa. On Your Own: Doing Research Without Plagiarizing. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman, 1999.

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