UNR Anthropology Graduate Student OrientationLibrary Resources and Plagiarism GuidanceJEREMY FLOYD, METADATA LIBRARIAN, ANTHROPOLOGY LIAISONJFLOYD@UNR.EDU

Plagiarism Defined

Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work as one's own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged.

Do not need to cite:• Your own lived experiences, observations, thoughts, and conclusions

• Your own research, such as results from experiments or field observations

• Your own photographs, video, audio, or other media

• Common knowledge and general accepted facts

Unintentional Plagiarism may result from the disregard for or unawareness of proper scholarly procedures, including using sources correctly and citing those sources.

Avoiding Plagiarism

3 ways to get information from sources into your paper:• Quoting – using an author’s exact words

• Paraphrasing – putting an author’s ideas into your own words

• Summarizing – putting an author’s ideas into your own words in a shorter format

Quoting: How to do it?

Choose passages that either seem especially well phrased or are unique to the author or subject matter.

Be selective in your quotations. Integrate your quotes into your writing. You don’t have to quote a whole passage. Use ellipses (…)

to indicate words left out.

Paraphrasing: How to do it?

• Don’t just take a passage and change a word here or there. • Read the passage, reflect upon it, and restate it.• Look away from your sources.• Paraphrase and then go back and check. Are there any phrases

that have come directly from the text?

Summarizing: How to do it?

• Ask yourself:• What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey?• What idea does all of the supporting evidence point to?• What is most important to me in the context in which I am

writing?

Further Sources on Plagiarism

Purdue Online Writing Lab (2013). Is it plagiarism yet? Purdue University. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/2/

Indiana University School of Education (2015) How to Recognize Plagiarism. Retrieved from https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/

UNR Libraries (2012). The Writing Process: Style Manuals, Documenting Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/93OHPIqbPPE

Library Resources

Knowledge Matters Infographic – General information about the libraries and collections

Anthropology Library Guide – Anthropology specific resources and databases

Manuscripts & Archives Collection Guides – primary source materials held at UNR, many collections relevant to archaeological, socio/cultural and linguistic research

Interlibrary Loan/Campus express – get materials not held by the Libraries/receive scanned copies of materials available only in print

Even More Library Resources

Library Acquisitions – forms to request books, media and subscriptions to resources (journals, databases) also may send request directly to me: jfloyd@unr.edu

Research Services – chat, email, in person reference. And you can always make an appointment with me for a one on one research consolation

Faculty and Graduate Student Carrels – limited number of private carrels and lockers available for research, checked out for a year at a time

And a 3rd Page of Library Resources

Poster Printing – for professional presentations, departmental activities – not for Non-UNR affiliated activities or monetary gain

Equipment Loan – audio/video, computing, lighting, presentation tools

DeLaMare Makerspace – 3d printing, scanning, vinyl and laser cutting, microcontrollers, electronics and soldering tools, virtual and augmented reality tools

Thank you, and Welcome to UNRJEREMY FLOYDJFLOYD@UNR.EDU@JJAMESFLOYD

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