It's easy to plagiarize inadvertently.
Luckily, also it's easy to avoid:
1. Take careful, meticulous notes. Document everything!
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2. When taking notes from text in books or journals, place quotation marks around all that you copy word-for-word and record where you took it.
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3. If you are "cutting and pasting" or otherwise downloading from the Internet, keep exact notes where that text or image came from.
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4. When paraphrasing someone's work, quotation marks are not needed, but crediting the original source is.
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Works Cited
Babbie, Earl, "Plagiarism," Social Sciences Research and Instructional Council Teaching Resources Depository: Other Teaching Tools, <http://www.csub.edu/ssric-trd/howto/plagiarism.htm>,
(7 October 2005)
Drexel University, Office of the Provost, Academic Policies, Academic Dishonesty, <http://www.drexel.edu/provost/policies/academic_dishonesty.asp>, (7 October 2005)
Indiana University- Bloomington,"Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It," Writing Tutorial Services, 1996, <http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml>, (14 February 01)
Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell. The Holt Handbook, 2d ed. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1989.
Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, unabridged. Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam Co., 1961.
Trivedi, Lisa and Williams, Sharon, "Using Sources ," 2005,
<http://www.hamilton.edu/academic/Resource/WC/AvoidingPlagiarism.html >,(7 October 2005) (no longer available online). |
