Plagiarism 10 Top Ways to Commit Copying

What is PLAGIARISM ? The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own To use without crediting the original source. Commit literary theft. A FEDERAL CRIME !

Why do we need to avoid plagiarism ? So we give credit to author or sources To share the source with other people For student, coping somebody’s work, they are spoiling the work of other honest students and quality of all the degrees issued by the school.

Top 10 Ways of Committing Plagiarism According to Turnitin.com: “White Paper, The Plagiarism Spectrum: Instructor Insights on 10 types of Plagiarism”, these types of copying techniques have been influenced by this generation’s advanced web access and ability to get their hands on any information at any given time. Copying has been easier to do and finding the core resource has been harder to find. Here are the top forms of plagiarism: (“The Plagiarism Spectrum: Tagging 10 Types of Unoriginal Work”)

1.) Clone An act of submitting another person’s work, word- for-word. According to the Plagiarism Spectrum survey this is the most used and the most problematic form of plagiarism. This shows no creativity or effort towards successfully writing your OWN work.

2.) CTRL +C A written piece of work that contains portions of a text from a source without one’s own creative and original input or ideas on the particular subject, or citation. The acts of copying and passing texting from an article or book onto your paper without including your perception and making into your own ideas.

3.) Find- Replace The act of changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential background work for the source in a paper. Using a sentence or paragraph from an article, book, or website but finding synonyms for the original words to rephrase but taking the authors IDEAS which is still committing a crime. According to the U.S. law, one’s authentic and documented idea is considered one’s intellectual property under the federal copyright laws.

4.) Remix An act of paraphrasing from other sources and putting all your information together with no connection or clear understanding of why the different information is being related to each other.

5.) Recycle The act of borrowing or copying from someone else’s work without citation. Self plagiarism – turning in a paper for two different classes without permission from either instructor.

6.) Hybrid The act of combining perfectly cited sources with copied passages without citations.

7.) MashUp A paper that shows a mixture of copied material from different source without proper citation.

8.) 404 ERROR A written piece that includes citations to non- existent or inaccurate information.

9.) Aggregator The “aggregator” includes proper citation, but the paper contains almost no original work. Meaning you gave the author credit, but you still acted out plagiarism by passing their work off as your own.

10.) RETWEET The paper has proper citation, however it lacks orginality or creative input and the paper is heavily influenced by the author’s text.

COMMON RESOURCES Books, Journals, Newspaper, Websites, Movie, Interview, and Conversations. Anything can be used as source and must be cited if are using it. If you are not sure, cite it just in case!

So how can we avoid plagiarism ? Cite ALL sources correctly, both in-text, and on the Works Cited List. Quoting. Paraphrasing. Summarizing.

Quoting A simple and striking way of citation. Add quotation marks at the beginning and end of sentence or phrase directly taken from original source. In-text citation of original source of the quotation and using the first word or last name in parenthesis. Cite complete source correctly on Works Cited List.

Paraphrasing Putting the ideas of your source into your OWN words, not using ANY of the exact words from the article. Cite the source correctly: both in-text and on the Works Cited List

Summarizing A very useful way to explain the main idea of original source Make a concentration of main idea, eliminate unnecessary detail information Restate main idea of original source, yet include a short in-text citation to show readers which part or original work is related to summarizing. Do not include your opinion or feelings.

Works Cited If you made citations in your paper, you have to create a separate “Works Cited” page at the end of your paper. Label the page Work Cited List Double space all citations, do not skip spaces between entries. Indent second and subsequent lines of citation by 0.5 inches – using more than one work by same author

Example of a“Works Cited” Page Works Cited List Contributors' name. "Title of Resource“. Title of the web site. Publishing organization, Last edited date. Web. Date of access “Title of Another Resource by Same Author ” * The individual format of entries varies depending on the type of source used

Some useful websites to prevent plagiarism These three websites are just a few examples of excellent teaching tools on the web to help you cite your sources properly! Purdue OWL: Son of Citation Machine: UNC Plagiarism Tutorial:

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