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PlagiarismSlide2
Why a Lecture?
Goals for this course include learning how to understand original sources and write about them in your own
words.
Committing plagiarism defeats the purpose of writing assignments. Students who plagiarize are not learning from the assignment.Slide3
Intellectual Property Theft
Citing acknowledges the information source, not
how
the information is originally
conveyed.
Copying how the information is originally conveyed is taking someone else’s hard work and passing it off as your
own.
Plagiarizing is intellectual property
theft.Slide4
Showing Critical Thinking
When writing you want to make it clear that you understood the source, and can think critically about the
source.
If you plagiarize the reader will likely believe either that you did not understand, or could not think critically about, the
source.Slide5
GSU Psychology Department Plagiarism Definition
If a student uses or relies on others’ work in preparing any academic materials (e.g
.,
written assignments, posters, presentations) the student must cite the source correctly according to the directions provided by the instructor. Failure to do so is plagiarism. Copying and pasting even part of a sentence or phrase is plagiarism, even when the source is cited correctly. Paraphrasing a source in a way that copies the phrase or sentence structure of a source is also plagiarism. To avoid plagiarism, students are expected to properly paraphrase others’ ideas.
Quotes in scientific writing should only be used when the wording of the original source is critical to the student’s argument. Whether quoting is appropriate in a given instance is at the discretion of the instructor, not the student.Slide6
Types of Plagiarism
Intentional
Unintentional
Copying a friend’s work
Poor documentation
Buying or borrowing other papers, or using your own previous papers
Careless paraphrasing (although this could also be intentional)
Cutting and pasting text
from other sourcesSlide7
People Have Probably Plagiarized If
They have included others’ words and ideas in their work without
citation.
They didn’t really understand a source but wrote about it
anyway.
They couldn’t think of any other way to say what the original author
said.Slide8
Summarizing vs. Paraphrasing
Summarizing – reducing a large amount of text to a smaller amount of text; telling the reader what is most relevant about the
source.
Paraphrasing – communicating other author’s ideas without using their words or sentence structure. Paraphrasing usually does not reduce the amount of text from the source.Slide9
Paraphrasing
Proper paraphrasing summarizes the original source using different language, phrasing, and sentence structure than the original
source.
If a student uses or relies on others’ work in preparing any academic materials (e.g
.,
written assignments, posters, presentations) the student must cite the source correctly according to the directions provided by the instructor. Failure to do so is plagiarism. Copying and pasting even part of a sentence or phrase is plagiarism, even when the source is cited correctly. Paraphrasing a source in a way that copies the phrase or sentence structure of a source is also plagiarism. To avoid plagiarism, students are expected to properly paraphrase others’ ideas.
Improper
paraphrasing
I
S
plagiarismSlide10
Incorrect Paraphrase
Source:
“In research writing, sources are cited for two reasons: to alert readers to the sources of your information and to give credit to the writers from whom you have borrowed words or ideas.”
Improper Paraphrase: In research writing, we cite sources for a couple reasons: to notify readers of our information sources and give credit to those whom we have borrowed
from.Slide11
Correct Paraphrase
Source:
“In research writing, sources are cited for two reasons: to alert readers to the sources of your information and to give credit to the writers from whom you have borrowed words or ideas.”
Correct Paraphrase: Researchers cite their sources to ensure their audiences know where the information came
from
and to recognize and credit the original work (Hacker, 1995).Slide12
Still Must Cite Paraphrasing
Properly paraphrased material must be followed with in-text documentation and cited on
the
reference
page, or it is
plagiarism. Slide13
Be Careful With Paraphrasing
Students are still plagiarizing (not paraphrasing) if they use the author’s original sentence structure, but just change the words.
Avoid paraphrasing
Take notes on the source material – don’t ever copy and paste, even as a
placeholder.
Wait a
day.
Convey the information in your own words, using your own “voice” looking only at your
notes.Slide14
Quoting
Quoting in scientific writing is rare, and is only done when the writer wants to convey
how
something is said, not
what
is
said.
The writer must make it clear that the original wording is critical to the
argument.
In some classes you are allowed to quote, and in some classes you are
not.Slide15
Citing
Direct readers to sources that support your
statements.
Cite anything that is not your own data or
theory.
Example
Combat veterans can take MAOIs (Salisbury and
Bruker
, 2011) or
aripiprazole
(Lambert, 2005) to treat the sleep disturbances associated with PTSD.Slide16
Mechanics of APA Style Citing
At the end of your statement in parentheses
Four conditions must be met for intergroup contact to reduce bias (
Allport
, 1954).
The author’s name as the subject of the sentence
Allport
(1954) was the first one to discuss that four conditions of contact that must be met for intergroup contact to reduce bias.Slide17
Summary
Summarize information in your own
words.
Make sure you write in your own “
voice.”
Cite all
sources.
Remember to look at the plagiarism handout for more examples of how to paraphrase
correctly.Slide18
References
Allport
, G. W. (1954).
The nature of prejudice
. Cambridge, MA:
Perseus
Books.
Hacker, D. (1995).
A writer’s reference
. New York, NY: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press.
Lambert, M. T. (2006).
Aripiprazole
in the management of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in returning Global War on Terrorism veterans.
International Clinical Psychopharmacology
,
21
, 185-187.
doi: 10.1097/01.yic.0000185021.48279.00.
Salisbury, A. G., & Burker, E. J. (2011). Assessment, treatment, and vocational implications of combat related PTSD in veterans. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 42(2), 42-49.