Don’t Be Like Richard NixonDon’t Plagiarize Your Work:

Anti-Plagiarism Techniques that Work!

What is Plagiarism?

• In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someoneelse’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.-Council of Writing Program Administrators

What is Plagiarism?

1. submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source AND

2. carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source.

How Can I Avoid Plagiarism?

• Evaluate resources to make sure they come from reputable/reliable sources

• Give credit to all sources used by creating a formal bibliography (NoodleBib)

• Quote• Paraphrase• Summarize

Quotations

• use a narrow segment of the source• match the source word for word• attributed to the original author

Used to:• provide support for your claims • add credibility to your argument• highlight a striking phrase, sentence or passage

Paraphrase

• putting a passage from the source into your own words

• usually shorter than original source • must cite the source

Steps for Note-Taking

• Read entire text. • Identify (highlight) main idea and key points.• Summarize in your own words the single main

idea.• Paraphrase supporting points.• Identify words, phrases or passages that

should be quoted.

Steps for Note-taking

• Summarizing:– Delete unneccessary words/sentences– Delete redundant words/sentences– Substitute broad terms for specific ones

(ex. Birds for sparrows, juncos, blue jays)-Select or create a topic sentence

Summarizing

• put main idea into your own words• include only the main points• significantly shorter than original source• must cite source