Including: ! Plagiarism vs. paraphrasing & quoting

! MLA Citations: Websites (review), Books, Reference, Periodical, Interview

“…Taking and passing off someone else’s work or ideas, and presenting them as your

own (from Latin plagiārius, kidnapper, literary thief).” ~ Macmillan Dictionary

Nervous about plagiarism? Don’t be! You can avoiding plagiarism by telling your reader WHERE you found your information.

! Citations are maps to your original sources ! Today we will review HOW to do this

! The most common form of plagiarism is copying something directly

! The internet makes this easy ! However, this is the same as cheating

!  Copying an pasting from a text without quotation marks, even if you use a citation

!  Keeping the original order of ideas without quotations, even if you use a citation (no cutting and pasting and using synonyms)

!  MLA citations that do not lead to the right source

!  Inaccurately paraphrasing or misrepresenting the intentions of the author

!  Copying and pasting any amount of text, even one sentence

!  Taking someone else’s idea and presenting it as your own

Studies have shown:

However, regardless of why (even if it is an accident), the consequences are exactly the same.

•  This is taken very seriously •  It is considered intellectual theft •  It is not a compliment or a display of

admiration •  It is a form of cheating •  It is not tolerated in any school or

professional setting - high school, college, university or in any workplace

If you plagiarize in college or university you may…

! Be kicked out of a class ! Be suspended from school ! Be kicked out of the school

If you plagiarize at work, you may… ! Lose your job ! Lose recommendations or future job prospects ! Be sued by the person whose idea you

“borrowed”

! Use the author’s exact words in “quotation marks”

! Do not make ANY changes ! Give the author’s name and page

number (Wilson 5)

That tells your teacher, “I did not write this part. These are someone else’s words.”

! Explain the main ideas of something you read

! Write completely in your own words

! Show that you understand the original information

! Always cite the source (Wilson 5)

!  Stop after each paragraph and ask yourself, “What did I just read?”

!  After you are done reading, put the text away

!  Write about what you read in your own words.

!  Pretend you are explaining to a friend.

!  DO NOT put anything in your paper that you did not understand.

How do I paraphrase?

! Cite with the author and page #: (Martinez 5)

! For websites, sometimes you will not have a page number:

(Martinez)

! Sometimes a text does not have an author either! Instead, use the page title:

(“Pollution”)

North Americans throw away too much trash. For example, we created 245 million tons of trash in 2006 (Parks 7). Our trash includes things like paper and food scraps that could be recycled or composted instead.

! Put “quotation marks…” around the author’s direct words

! ALWAYS put a citation after it like this:

“In 2006, about 245 million tons of trash were produced in the United States” (Parks 7).

If you do not have a citation, your quotation is still considered plagiarism

Americans create too much waste each year. According to the book Garbage and Recycling, “In 2006, about 245 million tons of trash were produced in the United States” (Parks 7). If we keep producing so many tons of trash each year, we will run out of space in landfills, the places where we dump our garbage.

Burrowing owls are an endangered species because of their habitat. “Burrowing owls live in underground dens that are easily threatened by construction projects” (Miller 55). Even if construction crews did not hurt owls, the birds may still become too afraid to lay eggs. Burrowing owl populations have gone down by 45% in the last ten years (“Threatened Bird Statistics”). Construction companies need to look for burrowing owls before they start working on a new project.

The first part are the in-text citations included directly in your written work.

Works Cited

Bily, Cynthia A. The Impact of E-Waste. Chicago: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Print.

Mayo, Katie. Personal interview. 16 Oct. 2012.

“Pollution.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 3rd ed. 2003. Print.

The second part is a separate sheet of paper, handed in with your assignment, listing all the sources you used.

•  In Social Science, we all have to use the same format to write papers & list our sources at the end of the paper

• MLA Handbook = a set of rules to do this

•  Purdue OWL website

•  MLA Tutorials on YouTube

•  Your teacher ☺

•  Citation generators like: -Citation Machine -Easy Bib

! You are encouraged to use citation generators

! Google will help For example search: “MLA citation website”

! Review citation and plagiarism rules while writing, and purchase a (MLA) guide if needed

! Ask questions when you have them

! Do not lose marks for poor citations

! Do not risk getting a zero on your assignment