PLAGIARISM
WHAT IS IT??
 Copying or using someone else’s work and passing it of f as
your own
 Copying ideas belonging to someone else and not giving credit
 Not using quotation marks around quotations
WHAT IS IT??
 U.S. Law says that words can be stolen!
 According to plagiarism.org:
 “The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property
and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions .”
5 T YPES OF PLAGIARISM
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"Types of Plagiarism." Plagiarism.org. WriteCheckBeta, 2014. Web. 18 Aug. 2014.
 Clone
 Presenting work as own- copied word-for-word
 CTRL-C
 Copy and paste portions of text without changing words
 Find-Replace
 Changing key words or phrases, but keeping most of the content
 Remix
 Taking from several sources and mixing info together
 Recycle
 Use ideas and words from writer’s previous work without citing
QUOTING
 What needs to be put into quotations???
 Directly stating something from a text
 Include citation info at end- parentheses (author’s last name and page or
paragraph number
 Another person’s words (from an interview, article, study, etc.)
 Quote facts, research/study information,
 Quoting more than 4 lines- you need to indent (block off text)
 According to Dr. Stevens, “………………..” (Lin, par.2)
 In a recent study conducted in the Archives of Internal Medicine,
“……………….” ( Lin, par. 3)
COMMON KNOWLEDGE
 Information found from numerous sources
 Information so well -known
 Considered common knowledge= does not need to be cited
COMMON OR NOT??
 President Barack Obama is the 44 th President of the United
States of America. He was the first African American sworn in
as President.
 In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics
reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and
expanded health care for children and their parents.
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president -obama
COMMON OR NOT?
 By the time it ended in Confederate surrender in 1865, the
Civil War proved to be the costliest war ever fought on
American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers
killed, millions more injured and the population and territory
of the South devastated.
 The Civil War took place from 1861 -1865. Fighting occurred
between the Union and the Confederate States of America.
 http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war
COMMON OR NOT?
 About 208,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have
diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.25% of that population.
 Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of Americans of
different age groups.
 http://www.diabetes.org /diabetes-basics/statistics/?loc=dbslabnav#sthash.UdzTAs4g.dpuf
PREVENTION
 Plan Ahead
 Outline; balance own ideas with facts found in research
 Take Ef fective Notes
 Record page numbers, web addresses, authors/publishers, dates
 Learn to Paraphrase
 Must change words and structure of sentence
 Still need citation
 When in doubt- CITE YOUR SOURCES
QUOTING HELP
 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03 /
FINAL THOUGHT
In your notebook, answer the following
question:
Why is preventing plagiarism important?
Include what plagiarism is and then
explain why it must be prevented.