Computer Information Systems - 50 Plagiarism, SafeAssign Debbie J. Fields Plagiarism There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. While some cultures may not insist so heavily on documenting sources of words, ideas, images, sounds, etc., American culture does. A charge of plagiarism can have severe consequences, including expulsion from a university or loss of a job, not to mention a writer's loss of credibility and professional standing. Review the plagiarism tutorial on the Las Positas College website: http://www.laspositascollege.edu/library/pdf/LPCwebplag.pdf What is plagiarism? http://www.plagiarism.org/ How to recognize plagiarism? http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eistd/ Plagiarism Traffic School at Las Positas http://www.laspositascollege.edu/raw/documents/plagiarism_practices.pdf Turnitin.com, SafeAssign Turnitin (also known as Turnitin.com) is an Internet-based plagiarism-detection service. Students or instructors submit electronic versions of essays to Turnitin.com. Turnitin.com then produces an originality report. This report shows the instructor the results of Turnitin.com's comparison of the essay to content on the web, to Turnitin.com's database of student writing, and to some databases of common full-text journals. Because Las Positas utilizes Blackboard, instructors may use Blackboard’s SafeAssign. Read more about SafeAssign at: http://www.laspositascollege.edu/facultystaff/plagiarism.php and view the video on how to submit documents to SafeAssign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoHTnid2czw Assignment #6b: SafeAssign 3/2015 DJFields SafeAssign - 1 1. You are going to create two documents; an original document and a plagiarized document, submit both documents to Blackboard’s SafeAssign, review what SafeAssign reveals about your documents, and write a summary of your results from SafeAssign 2. Using MSWord or Notepad you will create an original document. Your Name Today’s Date DJ Fields Title of Your Paper The paper must be at least 5 paragraphs of college level writing (a paragraph is at least 3 sentences). The topic of the paper is your choice. The file name of the document should be yourname_original.doc 3. Using MSWord or Notepad you will create a plagarized document. No citations required. NOTE: content is different from your original document.. Your Name Today’s Date DJ Fields Title of Your Paper The paper must be at least 5 paragraphs of college level writing (a paragraph is at least 3 sentences). The topic of the paper is your choice. The content of the document MUST be from 3 DIFFERENT resources. The file name of the document should be yourname_plagarized.doc 4. View the video on how to submit documents to SafeAssign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoHTnid2czw 5. Logon to the course on Blackboard, in the Assignments section you will see HW6c: Plagarized Document and HW6d: Original Document. Click View/Complete to upload your plagiarized and original document. 3/2015 DJFields SafeAssign - 2 6. To review your results; Click HW6c: Plagarized Document link again, click on the Safe Assign link Click on View Originality Report button Review/click the Originality Report results to view specifics. 7. Review the results of HW6d: Original Document, using the same above procedure. Be sure to view the Originality Report 8. Create an MSWord document called yourname_safeassign_summary.doc. Your Name Today’s Date DJ Fields Summary of SafeAssign Results In this document, write a half page summary of your results and your interpretation of your results of your submission of both documents to SafeAssign. Email me as an attachment the yourname_safeassign.doc 3/2015 DJFields SafeAssign - 3