Safe Practices Exercise:
1.
This information is personal and does not need
to be cited.
2.
This sentence is factual or statistical and needs
to start or end with a cited source. The entire sentence should have
quotations.
3.
The words “57% of high school students think
their teachers assign too much homework” should be in quotations and the source
cited.
4.
This information is a personal paraphrase or
opinion of the written and does not need to be cited.
5.
Correct.
6.
This example needs a page number/numbers or paragraph
number where the quotes were taken from.
7.
Personal information. No citation needed.
8.
This example, “Americans are guaranteed the
right to freely gather for peaceful meetings” needs to be in quotation marks
with the source cited in parenthesis at the end before the period.
The most important fact that I learned about plagiarism is, “If
in doubt, cite it!”. You will never be at fault for giving due credit, but you
will always be held accountable for plagiarizing.
When to cite?
Elements of material that do not have to be cited are “common
sense” topics such as the capitols of states, names and places, etc. You do not
have to cite your own ideas and opinions, discoveries you have made or your own
reasonings over such topics.
Material that you do have to cite include: direct quotes, paraphrase
and summaries. Arguable assertions also have to be cited, even if you do not
agree with the facts or information.
Charts, graphs and statistics must also be cited. Even if
you have created the graph, you got the information from somewhere!
Photos, graphics and visual material all have an original
source that deserves credit and should be cited whenever you incorporate it
into your own material.
How do you cite? There are several manuals available that
govern this, but the two most commonly used are the MLA format and APA format.
Each format has specific guidelines for citing every source we encounter. A
book with a title, a movie, a scholarly journal, emails, etc. Some websites have built-in citing tabs that give you the
correct format for your Works Cited page that you can simply copy and paste.
To quote Professor S, plagiarism is "presenting someone else's ideas as if they were your own! If it is not your own - cite it!"
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Hi, Marilyn:
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have a good grasp on how to avoid plagiarism. The most important thing is to develop a good note taking system so you have the citation information if/when you decide to use it. I've helped many students who printed out the articles but didn't get all the citation details and they have to redo their searching to complete their bibliographies. It's also important to give credit to the original source even if you paraphrase. You read the idea somewhere and putting it in your own words still requires you to give attribution.
Thank you for your efforts,
Andrea