Plagiarism

This is Shia LaBoeuf

You may remember him from such blockbusters as:

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He is also a comic creator & indie film maker

This is Daniel Clowes

He is best known for the creation of

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In 2012 Shia released Howard Cantour.com a film that he had

created

Which was remarkably similar* to Justin M. Damiano a comic by

Daniel Clowes

* by “remarkably similar” I mean that it is an almost word for word recreation of the comic

Shia had previously claimed to have developed the script in order to understand the mind-set of critics who in the past have criticised his movies.

This boys & girls is known as:

PLAGIARISM!

Plagiarism is defined as:

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

New Oxford Dictionary of English

These are all examples of plagiarism

• Copying & pasting text from a website and passing it off as your own work

• Paraphrasing text and not citing the original source

• Handing in a previously submitted piece of work from another subject

• Copying work from a fellow student

Paraphrasing

is a restatement (rewriting) of the meaning of a text or passage using other words

Any exact words remaining must have quotation marks around them

If you do this but do not cite your source you are guilty of plagiarism

Avoiding plagiarism

• Plan your work (no last minute work in the library on the morning when it is due)

• Use multiple sources• Take notes by paraphrasing & summarising• If you use exact words & phrases use

“quotation marks” • Do not copy & paste from the internet – read

and then make notes without looking at the screen

Remember:

Cite it while you write it

– not after!

Example of citation

• In text: (Holt 1997) or Holt (1997) wrote that...

• Bibliography: Holt, DH 1997, Management principles and practices, Prentice-Hall, Sydney.

• Footnotes:

You do not need to cite if:

• The work is your own original creation• It is common knowledge:– The sky is blue– Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime

Minister of Great Britain– You use a proverb e.g. “A watched pot never

boils!”

If you are not sure

Then add a citation

What happens when you are caught plagiarising?

• Your work may not be marked• You could fail the subject & it will affect all the

subjects you take under that exam board• It can go onto your permanent record• In University you can be expelled• You can face legal action• You can be fined• You can be jailed

What happened to Shia? Well he acknowledged what he had

done (sort of)…

But it turned out that he plagiarised that from Lili on Yahoo answers

and finally he apologized

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• Yahoo Finance. 2014. Shia LaBeouf Apologizes For Comic Book Plagiarism By Skywriting Over Los Angeles. [online] Available at: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shia-labeouf-apologizes-comic-book-172600852.html [Accessed: 20 Jan 2014].

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