1. The Perils of Plagiarism

4. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary…
Plagiarize:
To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own
To use (another’s production) without crediting the source
To commit literary theft
To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
STEALING
LYING

16. Check whether you can find it in a variety of sources
Facts:
Common knowledge or facts found in many sources.
Facts unique to certain research or ideas.
No cite needed
Must Cite
Check whether you can find it in a variety of sources

17. Examples of Common Knowledge
Milk has a lot of calcium.
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941.
Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of killing President Kennedy.

18. Paraphrase: “A restatement of a text or passage in other words.”
“A paraphrase must make significant changes in the style and voice of the original while retaining the essential ideas.”

19. Is this paraphrasing?
When playing in the outfield, it is important to keep alert of how deep or how shallow you are in case of fly balls.
When playing as an outfielder, it is essential that you are aware of how deep or how shallow you are in the grass so that if a batter hits a fly ball you can run in the correct direction.
As an outfielder, a player needs to concentrate on his position: how close is he to the warning track or how close to the infield; this will help ensure that he can run in the correct direction when a fly ball is hit towards him.

20. Brave New World not listed!
Public Domain
No copyright protection
In general, anything published more than 75 years ago BUT not always – best to check!
Brave New World not listed!

21. Are all published works copyrighted?
No.
Readily available information – like the phone book.
# works published by the US government
Facts that are not the result of original research
Works in the public domain (provided you cite properly)

22. Plagiarism! Self-Plagiarism
You wrote a paper on traveling to Mars for science class in your freshman year. You have to write a paper on space travel for your senior science class. You do some more research and add a page or two to your freshman paper on advances that have happened in the last three years.
Plagiarism!

23. Punishments for Plagiarism
Academic: loss of credit; punishment; expulsion from university; and others
ZERO TOLERANCE
Personal & Professional: fine; trial – jail time; loss of income/job; loss of reputation; lawsuit; and others

24. Academic Integrity in High School Students
The Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics surveyed 43,000 high school students in public and private schools and found that:
59% of high school students admitting cheating on a test during the last year; 34% self-reported doing it more than two times.
One out of three high school students admitted that they used the internet to plagiarize an assignment.

25. Academic Integrity in High School Students
“In a survey of 24,000 students at 70 high schools, Donald McCabe (Rutgers University) found that 64% of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58% admitted to plagiarism and 95% said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism or copying homework.

26. What will happen at VHS if you plagiarize?
Zero credit for work
Penalties given
Parents informed
Record of incident kept
Administration informed

27. Plagiarism in the Real World

28. Plagiarism in the Real World

29. Plagiarism in the Real World

32. Sample Scenarios

33. NO YES NO YES YES Must you cite?
You have been asked to write a report on gorillas for biology class. You include the following information.
Gorillas are primates with 10 fingers and 10 toes. NO
17% of a gorillas diet comes from leaves.
YES
Gorillas are sometimes hunted for meat. NO
There may only be 800 mountain gorillas left in the wild.
YES
“Gorillas are capable of learning human communication,” says Dr. Mun Kee
YES

34. NO YES YES YES Is this plagiarism?
You doing a homework assignment for History class on Confucius.
You write about your own feelings about something he wrote. NO
You copy word for word what your teacher told you about him.
YES
You find something on Wikipedia.
YES
You find something in another language and then translate it using Google or other site.
YES

35. UCSD SOURCES
UC San Diego. (2010). The Library: Glossary: Academic Integrity. Retrieved from UC San Diego. (2010). The Library: Real World Examples. Retrieved from UC San Diego. (2010). The Library: Tips to Avoid Plagiarism. Retrieved from