Plagiarism:
- From the Hacker’s Rules for Writers (p. 480): “Three different acts are considered plagiarism: (1) failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, (2) failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks, and (3) failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words.”
- From Brenda Spatt’s Writing From Sources (p. 383) “Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person’s work, in the form of original ideas, strategies, and research, or another person’s writing, in the form of sentences, paraphrases, and innovative terminology.”
What does it mean to Plagiarize?
Open Friend Quiz. Complete the Plagiarism Quiz. You can use the Internet, including "external resources" links, and each other as a reference.
Ways to Avoid Plagiarism?
Paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and other ways of integrating sources help you to support your ideas instead of you supporting that of the source text. Most importantly, proper integration of sources will give you the tools that you need to AVOID plagiarism.
The next step is deciding which integration strategy to use. This chart summarizes the methods of incorporating information.
Writing paraphrases: A paraphrase uses--and cites--the ideas or information provided by another author in your paper, but not with his/her exact words. First, let's look at this PowerPoint which provides a quick review and a practice exercise. Finally, we'll take a more in-depth look by working through a paraphrasing workshop.
Homework: Sometimes students have difficulty recognizing common knowledge. Please practice!
Exercise 58-5 Recognizing common knowledge (answers)
Acknowledge or Not? (key)
Read these articles for our discussion on academic language, summary and critique:
Read the Kaminski article which you can find here.
Read Bloom's comment on Kaminski here.
Read Pedersen's attack on Kaminski here.
Read Loxton's comment on Pedersen here.
Supplemental: UIUC Student Code (search for academic integrity); sample plagiarism answers
