Plagiarism
What is the definition of plagiarism?
Stealing someone else's words, ideas, or organization
What is an in-text citation?
A citation at the end of a direct quote, paraphrase, or summary that shows where you got your source from.
What is a direct quote?
When you write word for word the research that you found
What does it mean to paraphrase?
To put something into your own words.
Summarize this quote by Dory in Finding Nemo (don'e worry about signal phrase and in-text citation for this one):
"When life gets you down, you know what you have to do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming."
When you are going through a struggle, you just have to keep going.
True or False: If you give someone your homework assignment for them to copy before class, you both are plagiarizing.
True
What goes in an in-text citation?
Where do the quotation marks go for a direct quote?
Before you start typing the exact words from the original source and after you finished typing the direct words from the original source
What does it mean to summarize the research?
Put the main point of the whole article into one sentence. Should be shorter than a paraphrase.
How would you paraphrase and cite this correctly?
The research: Fake news is everywhere, and many Americans in the digital age struggle to sort fact from fiction.
Source: NPR
Article Title: "The Classroom Where Fake News Fails"
Technology is making it easy for fake news to spread and more challenging to determine what is real and what is false ("The Classroom").
Getting a zero on an assignment or standard, loss of computer, failing a class, loss of extra-curricular activities, etc.
What is a signal phrase?
A phrase that introduces where you got your research which could include the article title or the website it came from
True or False: You should cite a majority of your research using direct quotes.
False. You should only use direct quotes when you can't put something into your own words or doing so would make it lose its impact
True or False: Paraphrasing should be shorter than summarizing.
False
Open up your free-reading book. Choose one paragraph. Practice pulling a direct quote from it using a signal phrase and in-text citation.
Variety of answers. Make sure you have a signal phrase, quotation marks, and an in-text citation.
Why does plagiarism matter in the real world?
There are real consequences. You could be fined, fired, sued, lose your reputation, have a hard time getting a job, get expelled from college, et.
In general, where does the signal phrase go?
At the beginning of the sentence (it doesn't always have to, but that is usually where it goes)
I am directing quoting something but there is no page number. What do I put in the in-text citation?
Just the author's last name
Explain the method we taught you to paraphrase.
1. Read a portion of the text
2. Cover it up
3. Write down what you remember
4. Highlight words that match the original
5. Revise and reword to ensure you are not plagiarizing
Practice paraphrasing, summarizing, and direct quoting this paragraph. Be sure to include in-text citations and signal phrases.
Source: National Geographic
Article: "All about Brown Bears"
Author: Wesley Bran
Page #: none
Shades of brown. Brown bears are brown, right? Well, maybe. They come in all sizes and shades, from a light cream color to almost black. It was once thought that there were 86 different kinds of grizzlies and brown bears in North America alone. Today, scientists agree that there is only one species of brown bear with a lot of variations (or subspecies).
Answers will vary.
Quote: An article in National Geographic states "It was once thought that there were 86 different kinds of grizzlies and brown bears in North America alone" (Bran).
Summarize: "All about Brown Bears" an article in National Geographic reports how there are many colors of brown bears but really only one species (Bran).
Paraphrase: Until recently, it was said that there were over 80 kinds of brown bears. However, researchers have determined that there is really only one species, even though they are found in colors and dimensions, reports National Geographic in the article "All about Brown Bears" (Bran).
Quote it, paraphrase it, and cite it
What do you put in an in-text citation if there is no author?
The title of the article in quotation marks and the page number
Where does the period go for the in-text citation of a direct quote?
After the in text citation.
"direct quote" (Cusick 25).
Paraphrase this quote from Forrest Gump. Don't worry about in-text citation and signal phrases for this one. You will really have to think about what the quote means:
“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”
You can't predict what is going to happen in life. There will always be unexpected things.
List at least 5 different ways someone can plagiarize. Think about the notes you took over the videos about the types of plagiarism.
Buying a paper online, copying from someone else's assignment, not citing a source, citing a source incorrectly, making up a source for your information, combining multiple sources and not citing all of the sources, reuse one of your old papers, failing to balance your words with things you cite, using too many words or the same structure as the original when paraphrasing, etc.