This document discusses plagiarism and provides tips to avoid it. It defines plagiarism as the unauthorized use of another's work without acknowledgement or credit. Plagiarism can be intentional cheating or accidental, but is still serious. The document recommends doing your own original work, beginning assignments early to avoid deadline pressures that could push one to plagiarize. It also advises establishing your own voice through thorough research, keeping drafts to track your developing ideas, and properly citing sources. A checklist is provided to ensure all quotations, paraphrases and summaries are correctly attributed before submitting work. Readers are encouraged to take an online plagiarism certification test.
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Plagiarism Workshop
1. Im too busy
Can I Just Copy &
Paste??
Assoc. Prof. Dr Azidah Abu Ziden
8. Unauthorized or
unacknowledged
use of another
person's academic
or scholarly work.
Done on purpose,
it is cheating.
Done accidentally,
it is no less serious.
10. Regardless of how it occurs, plagiarism is
a theft of intellectual property and a
violation of an ironclad rule demanding
"credit be given where credit is due".
13. Killing two birds with one stone. Recycling an
essay or paper written for one class by using it in
another class studying the same or similar
material.
17. First, do your own
work
Begin your
research/assignment
project as early as
possible.
Performing under
deadline pressures often
pushes a student into
cheating.
18. Second, establish
your own voice
Learn as much as you
can about your topic:
it will help you develop
a point-of-view from
which to speak.
The more you know,
the easier it will be to
avoid plagiarism.
19. Third, do your
research carefully.
Read the material
closely.
Keep an annotated
bibliography of the
source material you
intend to use in
your paper.
20. Fourth, keep copies
of all your drafts
In review, you will
notice your own point-
of-view developing,
changing and growing;
a voice of authority all
your own, emerging.
It will stand in contrast
to those of your
sources
21. Finally, make sure
that your document is
properly constructed
and your sources
correctly cited.
Remember, if the general
concept, idea, quotation,
statistic, fact, illustration,
graph or data you intend
to include is not common
knowledge in the field of
your investigation, a
source must be cited.
22. Are all quotations surrounded by
quotation marks?
Are single and double quotation marks
properly used in quotations within
quotations?
Are ellipses and brackets included in
quotations where words have been
deleted or comments added?
Here is a checklist of questions
to ask yourself before handing
in your work:
23. Are any quotations, paraphrases or
summaries attributed to the wrong
author? Are any missing an attribution
completely?
Are your paraphrases worded
significantly different than the
original?
Are your summaries written in your
own voice?
Here is a checklist of questions
to ask yourself before handing
in your work:
24. Are all your source citations included
in your bibliography or sources cited
page?
Are the titles, page numbers and dates
in your documentation correct?
Here is a checklist of questions
to ask yourself before handing
in your work: