Mary Aylmer Media Skills 1 Plagiarism What is Plagiarism? Quoting/Paraphrasing/General Indebtedness Copying/allowing copying Penalties General knowledge References or Bibliography? How to reference Examples

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 2 Acknowledgement For these notes I have relied heavily on the content and organisation of two web sites –Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University. –Kingston University, Student guide

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 3 What is Plagiarism? Passing off someone else’s ideas or words as if they were your own Presenting the work of another as your own with proper acknowledgement It applies equally to the work of other students as to published sources

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 4 Quoting and Paraphrasing Quoting –Allowed, you must Put the quote in inverted commas Give the source so that the reader could look it up Paraphrasing –Putting someone else’s ideas into your own words –Should acknowledge the source in each paragraph General Indebtedness –Careful here –If the ordering or argument reflect one source then this should be stated

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 5 Copying/allowing copying Copying work from other students = plagiarism Allowing copying incurs similar penalties to plagiarism

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 6 Penalties From 0% for assignment (resubmission with marks caped at minimum may be allowed) To Explusion

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 7 General Knowledge In general you should reference every fact except –When it is well known/generally accepted. So no need to reference facts such as: 1939 – 1945 WW2 Newton discovered gravity –But, you should reference anything the reader is likely to query/not know. Eg Superconductivity was first discovered by Professor Heike in 1911 [1] In the references section you would list [1] David Fishlock A guide to Superconductivity 1969 McDonald & Co. p1

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 8 References or Bibliography? References –Anything cited in your or used in the preparation of your report Bibliography –all papers, web sites, newspapers, periodicals or books that you have read during the preparation of your report –sources that have been useful to you but that are not directly referred to or quoted from in your report

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 9 References section See City University’s guide ort/citation.html

Mary Aylmer Media Skills 10 Examples You quote the first law of thermodynamics –Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only change forms. You read a book about the history of the Daily Mail for your British Media essay You use part of a share ware routine for your java script coursework