1. Plagiarism: How Can We Avoid It?
Strategies for Conducting
Ethical Research

2. What is plagiarism?
to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
use (another's production) without crediting the source
to commit literary theft
present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

3. So . . . How DO we Avoid Literary Jail?

4. Attribute, Attribute, Attribute
Three ways to use research appropriately in your project or writing
#1 Direct Quote
#2 Paraphrase – along with mention of the source and a bibliographic citation.
#3 Summary – along with mention of the source and bibliographic citation

5. Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper)
#1 - Direct quote
( to use the exact wording from your source, and correctly punctuate it with quotation marks)
When would you use this strategy?

6. Writer’s wording is “just perfect” so you want to capture it exactly
When quoting words from a novel, poem or other work
“Men at some times are masters of their fates.” Julius Caesar (I. ii. 140)

7. #2 - Paraphrasing Three Ways to Insert Research into your paper
What is paraphrasing?

8. Paraphrasing: In a few Words
Paraphrase- (v) to restate written information, giving the same meaning in another form. Source must be cited.

9. What paraphrasing is NOT:
Just changing a few words here and there by finding synonyms
Rearranging the sentences into a different order

10. How do we Paraphrase? First – read the original thoroughly
Next – make sure you understand it; reread parts on which you are unclear.
Finally - put it away! Write what you think it says without looking at the original article.

11. Group Practice

12. When would you use this strategy?
Three Ways to Insert Research
into your paper
#2 - Paraphrasing
When would you use this strategy?

13. When. . .
exact wording is too detailed
the way it’s worded isn’t special
details of the article are still important

14. #3 – Summarizing ■ What is summarizing?
Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper)
#3 – Summarizing ■ What is summarizing?

15. What is in a Summary? Major points from the. . . Main idea
Beginning, the
Middle, and the
End
. . .of the text you are summarizing.
Always include the . . .
Main idea
. . . of the text you are summarizing.

16. #3 – Summarizing When would you use this strategy?
Three Ways to Insert Research (into your paper)
#3 – Summarizing When would you use this strategy?

17. When you want to relay:
information from a large
article
a basic overview of the information you read.
only the main idea and key points of the article, instead of specific details.

18. Source Information
Paragraph (Rimer 1).