Plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Taking someone else's work or ideas and presenting them as your own.
MLA stands for....
Modern Language Association
What is summarizing?
Putting a text into your own words, focusing on the main ideas.
What is paraphrasing?
Restating someone else's ideas in your own words while maintaining the original meaning.
What does it mean to quote someone?
To repeat someone else's exact words
Why is plagiarism wrong?
It is dishonest and disrespects the original author's work.
In a work cited entry, this should be the first thing to appear.
Author's name
How long should a summary be compared to the original text?
A summary should be much shorter than the original text.
What is one way to ensure you are paraphrasing correctly?
Use your own sentence structure and word choice.
How do you show that you are quoting someone in your work?
By using quotation marks
If you copy a friend’s homework, what are you doing?
Cheating or plagiarizing
For in-text citations, MLA uses this format when it is a book source.
Author's last name and page number
When you summarize, do you include every detail?
No, you only include the main ideas
If I say, "The cat is sleeping on the couch," how could you paraphrase it?
"The cat is resting on the sofa?"
What do you have mention after you quote a source?
Cite where the information came from
How does citing your sources help other people?
Citing sources helps others know where to find the information you used.
Is the follow citation correct or incorrect?
Samantha Buglover explains in her book The Great Outdoors that the Venus flytrap’s has to eat insects to survive because its habitat prevents the plant from getting enough nitrogen through sunlight, water, or the earth as a normal plant would (8).
Correct
Can you summarize a text without reading it? Why or why not?
No, you need to read it to understand the main ideas.
What do you have mention after you paraphrase a text?
Cite where the information came from
What is the difference between quoting and paraphrasing/summarizing?
Quoting uses the exact words from a source, while paraphrasing/summarizing means putting the ideas into your own words.
Can you plagiarize from your own work?
Yes, it's called self-plagiarism.
Make a parenthetical citation for this source for a passage from page five "
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.
(Gleick 5)
What do you have to mention at the beginning of a summary?
The author and the title
Can paraphrasing still be considered plagiarism?
Yes, if you do not credit the original source.
When should you use quotes in your writing?
When the exact wording is important