Don’t Want to Fail? Don’t Plagiarize

Plagiarism Definition: The act of passing someone else’s work off as your own. It occurs when: You present words, ideas, images, sounds, or artistic expressions of others as your own. You have included other’s ideas in your work without giving credit You have received help your teacher wouldn’t want you to know about. You have a friend do your work for you.

QUOTING Quotations must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.

PARAPHRASING Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. A paraphrase must also be attributed to the original source. Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a somewhat broader segment of the source and condensing it slightly. Paraphrasing doesn’t involve changing one or two words; you must reword everything. Paraphrases don’t go in quotation marks.

How to Avoid Plagiarism GIVE CREDIT Step 1: Directly quote or paraphrase text from another source. Step 2: In brackets AFTER the end quotation but BEFORE the period, include the first word (either last name or article title – sometimes both if you need to specify) that appears in your Works Cited Page. This word in brackets acts as a LINK to the Works Cited Page. Step 3: Create a matching entry in the Works Cited Page

Example: In a student’s work In the Works Cited Page The Purdue OWL is accessed by millions of users every year. Its “MLA Formatting and Style Guide” is one of the most popular resources (Stolley et al.). One online film critic stated that Fitzcarraldo is "...a beautiful and terrifying critique of obsession and colonialism" (Garcia, “Herzog: a Life”). Works Cited Page Garcia, Elizabeth. "Herzog: a Life." Online Film Critics Corner. The Film School of New Hampshire, 2 May 2002. Web. 8 Jan. 2009. Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 . So, the reader looks for CLUES (like your citation in brackets) and knows to look in your Works Cited Page for where you got this information

WHY QUOTE OR PARAPHRASE? QUOTING AND SUMMARIZING MAY HELP YOU TO provide support for claims or add credibility to your writing refer to work that leads up to the work you are now doing give examples of several points of view on a subject call attention to a position that you wish to agree or disagree with highlight a particularly striking phrase, sentence, or passage by quoting the original distance yourself from the original by quoting it in order to cue readers that the words are not your own expand the breadth or depth of your writing