 When
you say you did the work yourself,
you did it.
 When you rely on someone else’s work,
you cite it.
 When you present research materials,
you present them fairly and truthfully.
Source: Lipson, Charles. “Doing Honest Work in College.” Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; 2008.
• Risk a Failing Grade
• Supposed to be LEARNING!
• Equivalent to Lying
• Should I Trust You?
• Public Embarrassment
Colin Powell. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200210/images/colin_powell.jpg
Tony Blair. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2007/05/11/LI2007051101334.html
 Taking
someone else’s work and
pretending it was your own.
 Failure to include citations.
 Not paraphrasing properly
1. Use your own words and sentence structure.
2. When paraphrasing, avoid using any words
from the original, except technical terms.
Original:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is
the most severe and most
frequently reported rickettsial
illness in the United States. It also
occurs in Mexico and in Central
and South America. The disease
is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii,
a species of bacteria that is
spread to humans by ixodid
(hard) ticks. Initial signs and
symptoms of the disease include
sudden onset of fever, headache,
and muscle pain, followed by
development of rash. The disease
can be difficult to diagnose in the
early stages, and without prompt
and appropriate treatment it can
be fatal. (CDC)
Acceptable paraphrase?
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a
severe and frequently reported
rickettsial disease in the United
States, Mexico and Central and
South America. It is caused by
Rickettsia rickettsii, a type of
bacteria that is spread to humans
by ixodid (hard) ticks. Signs and
symptoms of the disease are
sudden onset of fever, headache,
and muscle pain, followed by
development of rash. Difficult to
diagnose in the early stages, the
disease can be fatal without
prompt and appropriate
treatment. (CDC)
Original:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is
the most severe and most
frequently reported rickettsial
illness in the United States. It also
occurs in Mexico and in Central
and South America. The disease
is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii,
a species of bacteria that is
spread to humans by ixodid
(hard) ticks. Initial signs and
symptoms of the disease include
sudden onset of fever, headache,
and muscle pain, followed by
development of rash. The disease
can be difficult to diagnose in the
early stages, and without prompt
and appropriate treatment it can
be fatal. (CDC)
Unacceptable paraphrase!
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is
a severe and frequently reported
rickettsial disease in the United
States, Mexico and Central and
South America. It is caused by
Rickettsia rickettsii, a type of
bacteria that is spread to humans
by ixodid (hard) ticks. Signs and
symptoms of the disease are
sudden onset of fever, headache,
and muscle pain, followed by
development of rash. Difficult to
diagnose in the early stages, the
disease can be fatal without
prompt and appropriate
treatment. (CDC)
Original:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is
the most severe and most
frequently reported rickettsial
illness in the United States. It also
occurs in Mexico and in Central
and South America. The disease
is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii,
a species of bacteria that is
spread to humans by ixodid
(hard) ticks. Initial signs and
symptoms of the disease include
sudden onset of fever, headache,
and muscle pain, followed by
development of rash. The disease
can be difficult to diagnose in the
early stages, and without prompt
and appropriate treatment it can
be fatal. (CDC)
Acceptable paraphrase?
Untreated, Rocky Mountain
spotted fever is a potentially fatal
rickettsial disease found in the
United States, Mexico and Central
and South America. People
acquire the disease through
contact with ixodid (hard) ticks
that are infected with a bacteria
called Rickettsia rickettsii. Signs
and symptoms of this hard to
diagnose disease include fever,
headache, muscle pain, and a
rash.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/january11/mlk-011106.html
 Failure
to properly cite your sources.
 Note-taking
skills are required.
• Paraphrase everything you write
• Put “quotes” around direct quotes
• Organize your notes by source
Give credit
 Words/ideas
from magazine, book,
newspaper, song, TV program, movie,
Web page, advertisement . . .
Need not give credit
 Your
own experiences, observations,
insights, & thoughts.
 Your
Information from interviewing or
conversing with another person.

own results obtained through
lab or field experiments.
 Your
 When
you copy the exact words or a
unique phrase.
own artwork, digital
photographs, video, audio . . .
 When
 When
you reprint any diagrams,
illustrations, charts, pictures . . .
you reuse/repost any
electronic media, including images,
audio, video . . .
you use "common knowledge”
- - common sense observations,
historical events, what everybody
knows . . .
 When
 When
you are using generallyaccepted facts, e.g., pollution is bad for
the environment
Source: Stolley, Karl. “Avoiding Plagiarism.” The OWL at Purdue. 30 Sept. 2008. Purdue University. 7 Apr. 2009
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02>.
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 When
you say you did the work yourself,
you did it.
 When you rely on someone else’s work,
you cite it.
 When you present research materials,
you present them fairly and truthfully.
Source: Lipson, Charles. “Doing Honest Work in College.” Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; 2008.