Notes on Plaigerism

What is plagiarism? – Plagiarism is the act of presenting words, ideas, imaged, sounds or the creative expression of others as your own.

There are two types of plagiarism.
Intentional
Unintentional

Intentional
Copy friend’s work
Buy/borrow papers
Cut and paste others work into yours
Borrowing media content without documenting
Copy web publishing without permission

Unintentional
Use careless paraphrasing- use too much of the original
Poor documentation – didn’t do it properly
Excessive quotes – virtually the same with too much of the origional
Fail to use your own thoughts and words – not questioning original author

Excuses for plagiarism
Parents want too much
Need grades for university
Too busy / football, clubs, etc
The assignment was boring – some like some don’t
Everyone does it! NO
My tutors expect too much – strict guidelines for teachers

Remember! When you copy …
You copy, your cheating yourself , not learning
Consequences are dire
Not giving credit to the original author
Cite your work, give decent reverencing to author

Consequences of plagiarism
Work will be failed, maybe the whole course
Notification to parents
Referral to program managers
Suspension or exclusion
On your student record
Loss of reputation

Imagine an:
Architect who cheated his way through maths class – could get measurements wrong, highly dangerous
A lawyer who paid for his exam – might get a client wrongly accused
School bus driver paid someone to take his test – dangerous, involves children

When should I reference
· When writing an essay. And you need to use a reference to the original text
· When you directly quote another author’s words, or tables, charts etc
· Restate in your own words another author’s idea, theories.
· When you quote from, interpret, paraphrase in a book, but is not that author’s work
· When you summarise a section of a paragraph or line from another author

Referencing methods
2 systems,
Harvard system
numeric system

How to reference
To use speech marks when another author’s text is being used at the start and finish
Your words and the authors words are acknowledged and then told at the end of line, paragraph
For example
- As Senn (1990) suggests, blah blah blah blah author’s text blah blah.

[1] This 1 symbolises where the footnote goes

Internet

When referencing info from the internet, number of points you must take
the URL is the address to find the source when including it in the reference
the address is correct

You don’t need to document when;
Discussing your own experiences
Compiling results of original research
using common knowledge

Strategies
Quoting – more interesting then what you think
Paraphrasing – in my own words, proves you understand it
Summarizing – making the original summarized in two three lines.

Quoting – exact words “these must be cited”
Use them when you want to Disagree, support, highlight, compare/contrast, and important text to your personal research.


Paraphrasing – rephrasing it, other’s idea

Summarizing – using their idea but condensing it.

Be honest when writing assignments ,
“cheating never pays”


Example -
Proof that flash memory has its flaws is a quote from “Verma 1988 Reliability performance of ETOX based flash memories”, “Flash memory also may only be rewritten a limited number of times before wearing out, making it less useful for heavy random access usage.” Meaning blah blah blah.









[1] This is a footnote, can be used to Put reference to another’s work