Plagiarism, Citing, &
Peer Review
Tosspon’s English 105
Heald College
Obvious Plagiarism
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buying, stealing, or
borrowing a paper
(including, of course,
copying an entire
paper or article from
the Web);
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hiring someone to
write your paper for
you; and copying
large sections of
text from a source
without quotation
marks or proper
citation.
Cite It
• Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper,
song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program,
letter, advertisement, or any other medium
• Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with
another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing
• When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase
• When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures,
or other visual materials
• When you reuse or repost any electronically-available media,
including images, audio, video, or other media
DON’T Cite It
• Writing your own lived experiences, your own observations
and insights, your own thoughts, and your own conclusions
about a subject
• When you are writing up your own results obtained through
lab or field experiments
• When you use your own artwork, digital photographs, video,
audio, etc.
• When you are using "common knowledge," things like
folklore, common sense observations, myths, urban legends,
and historical events (but not historical documents)
• When you are using generally-accepted facts, e.g., pollution
is bad for the environment, including facts that are accepted
within particular discourse communities, e.g., in the field of
composition studies, "writing is a process" is a generallyaccepted fact.
Best Practices: Research
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Reading and Note-Taking
Interviewing and Conversing
Writing Paraphrases or Summaries
Writing Direct Quotations
Writing About Another's Ideas
Maintaining Drafts of Your Paper
Must Cite in 2 places:
In-text citations
Works
Cited
Page
(also known as ‘parenthetical documentation’)
In other words- in parentheses.
Your in-text citations work with your bibliography (works
cited) page to identify where any quotes or ideas
borrowed from another author came from.
“References in the text MUST clearly point to specific sources
in the list of works cited.”
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed.
Works Cited page
Halio, Jay L., "Elizabethan Age." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Scholastic
Library Publishing, 2006. HF-L High School. 1 Apr 2006 <http://gme.grolier.com>.
Life in Elizabethan England. Summer 2005. 31 Mar 2006 <http://renaissance.dm
.net/compendium>.
Pressley, J. M. "An Encapsulated Biography." Shakespeare Resource Center,
February 10, 2005. 3 Mar 2006 <http://www.bardweb.net/man.html>.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1969.
Thomas, Heather. The Life in Times of Queen Elizabeth I. 23 Mar 2006. 1 Apr
2006 <www.elizabethi.org>.
In-text citations: Direct Quote
In the body of the paper, it looks like this:
When Mercutio is wounded, he screams “A plague on both
your houses!” referring to both the Capulets and the
Montagues (Shakespeare 70).
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1969.
Direct Quotes
– Educators are cautioned that “…labels tend to
stick, and few people go back later to document
a shifting profile of intelligences” (Gardner 139).
– Gardner explains that there are difficulties in
labeling children with a type of intelligence,
including the problem that labels may last, while
the assessment may change (139).
How to Paraphrase
A. On September 11, 2001, the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon were attacked by
hijacked airplanes.
B. Atta, Binalshibh, al Shehhi, and Jarrah had
lived in Germany and were chosen over more
established Al Qaeda members due to their
exposure to the West and ability to speak
English.
B was correct: it is specific
and not commonly known
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How would you cite it? In the text of your paper:
Atta, Binalshibh, al Shehhi, and Jarrah had lived in
Germany and were chosen over more established Al
Qaeda members due to their exposure to the West
and ability to speak English (National Commission
160).
In the Works Cited:
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States. The 9/11 Commission Report. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2004.
Which of THESE
do you need to cite?
A. “The science labs at East St. Louis High
School are 30 to 50 years outdated.”
B. When public schools were segregated,
conditions were not equal.
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How would you cite it? In-body:
“The science labs at East St. Louis High
School are 30 to 50 years outdated” (Kozol
27).
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In the Works Cited:
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in
America’s Schools. New York: HarperCollins,
1991. Print.
To Do
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Peer Revision
Power Point for Presentation