Plagiarism
“58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989”-- The
State of Americans: This Generation and the Next
“30% of a large sampling of Berkeley students were recently caught plagiarizing directly from the Internet”--
results of a Turnitin.com test, conducted from April-May 2000
Plagiarism is passing off the work of someone else as your own. See the handbook
regarding consequences.
Material is probably common knowledge if . . .
x You find the same information undocumented in at least five other sources
x You think it is information that your readers will already know
x You think a person could easily find the information with general reference sources
Need to Document
x When you are using or referring to somebody
else’s words or ideas from a magazine, book,
newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web
page, computer program, letter, advertisement,
or any other medium
x When you use information gained through
interviewing another person
x When you copy the exact words or a "unique
phrase" from somewhere
x When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations,
charts, and pictures
x When you use ideas that others have given you
in conversations or over email
x When you use any statistic
No Need to Document
x When you are writing your own experiences,
your own observations, your own insights, your
own thoughts, your own conclusions about a
subject
x When you are using "common knowledge" —
folklore, common sense observations, shared
information within your field of study or cultural
group
x When you are compiling generally accepted
facts
x When you are writing up your own
experimental results
Action during the writing process
x Mark everything that is someone else’s words
with a big Q (for quote) or with big quotation
marks
x Indicate in your notes which ideas are taken
from sources (S) and which are your own
insights (ME)
x Record all of the relevant documentation
information in your notes
Appearance on the finished product
Proofread and check with your notes (or photocopies
of sources) to make sure that anything taken from your
notes is acknowledged by using any of the following
methods:
x Integrated Quote with an in text citation
x Paraphrasing with and in text citation
x Large Quotation method
Source Quality Check
Every book, periodical article, or other resource should be evaluated to determine
its quality and its relevance to your topic and the nature of your assignment. Use the
criteria below to help you evaluate resources.
x What are the author's education and experience? Look for information about
the author in the publication itself.
x Who is the audience for the publication (scholarly or general)?
x Is the publication primary or secondary in nature?
x Does it provide general background information or in-depth information on a
specific topic? Which do you need?
x How extensive is the bibliography? Can you use these references to find more
information?
x What is the publication date?
x How up-to-date are the citations in the bibliography?
x How current do you need for your topic?
Determine whether the information is fact, opinion or propaganda.
x Are there footnotes to show the source of the facts or quotes?
x Does the publisher have a particular bias?
x Are opinions or propaganda easy to recognize?
x Do the words and phrases play to your emotions or bias the content?
http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/Scholarly.html
Questions:
1. Where do you commonly find the publication date in a book?
2. How do you determine who the “audience” is for this book?
3. What is a bibliography?
“58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989”-- The
State of Americans: This Generation and the Next
“30% of a large sampling of Berkeley students were recently caught plagiarizing directly from the Internet”--
results of a Turnitin.com test, conducted from April-May 2000
Plagiarism is passing off the work of someone else as your own. See the handbook
regarding consequences.
Material is probably common knowledge if . . .
x You find the same information undocumented in at least five other sources
x You think it is information that your readers will already know
x You think a person could easily find the information with general reference sources
Need to Document
x When you are using or referring to somebody
else’s words or ideas from a magazine, book,
newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web
page, computer program, letter, advertisement,
or any other medium
x When you use information gained through
interviewing another person
x When you copy the exact words or a "unique
phrase" from somewhere
x When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations,
charts, and pictures
x When you use ideas that others have given you
in conversations or over email
x When you use any statistic
No Need to Document
x When you are writing your own experiences,
your own observations, your own insights, your
own thoughts, your own conclusions about a
subject
x When you are using "common knowledge" —
folklore, common sense observations, shared
information within your field of study or cultural
group
x When you are compiling generally accepted
facts
x When you are writing up your own
experimental results
Action during the writing process
x Mark everything that is someone else’s words
with a big Q (for quote) or with big quotation
marks
x Indicate in your notes which ideas are taken
from sources (S) and which are your own
insights (ME)
x Record all of the relevant documentation
information in your notes
Appearance on the finished product
Proofread and check with your notes (or photocopies
of sources) to make sure that anything taken from your
notes is acknowledged by using any of the following
methods:
x Integrated Quote with an in text citation
x Paraphrasing with and in text citation
x Large Quotation method
Source Quality Check
Every book, periodical article, or other resource should be evaluated to determine
its quality and its relevance to your topic and the nature of your assignment. Use the
criteria below to help you evaluate resources.
x What are the author's education and experience? Look for information about
the author in the publication itself.
x Who is the audience for the publication (scholarly or general)?
x Is the publication primary or secondary in nature?
x Does it provide general background information or in-depth information on a
specific topic? Which do you need?
x How extensive is the bibliography? Can you use these references to find more
information?
x What is the publication date?
x How up-to-date are the citations in the bibliography?
x How current do you need for your topic?
Determine whether the information is fact, opinion or propaganda.
x Are there footnotes to show the source of the facts or quotes?
x Does the publisher have a particular bias?
x Are opinions or propaganda easy to recognize?
x Do the words and phrases play to your emotions or bias the content?
http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/Scholarly.html
Questions:
1. Where do you commonly find the publication date in a book?
2. How do you determine who the “audience” is for this book?
3. What is a bibliography?
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