PLAGIARISMHow Did We Get Here?INCORPORATING SOURCE MATERIALSUMMARYPARAPHRASEPLAGIARIZED PARAPHRASECORRECT PARAPHRASEDIRECT QUOTATIONBASICS OF IN-TEXT CITATIONSBASICS OF REFERENCES PAGEAVOIDING PLAGIARISMReferencesYOUR ASSIGNMENTSAMPLE ESSAYAPA GUIDELINE FOR WEB REFERENCESCURRENT SAMPLE WEB REFERENCEQUESTIONS?01/14/19 PLAGIARISMChanges in technology have caused universities to look more closely at plagiarismHow Did We Get Here?1993--American Research Group offers papers online1997--28 Paper mills. Schoolsucks.com starts with one essay1998--72 Paper Mills (38 offer free papers). Schoolsucks.com advertising revenue is $5,000/month.Virginia Tech. 1996-97 142 cases 1997-98282 cases 1998-99 450 casesINCORPORATING SOURCE MATERIALSummaryParaphraseDirect QuotationThe following information is derived from Raimes, A. (2002). Keys for writers: A brief handbook. (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Behrens, L. & Rosen, L.J. (2000). Writing and reading across the curriculum. (7th ed.). New York: Longman.SUMMARYSummaries briefly offer readers basic information about the sourceUse your own words at all timesDo not have the original source in front of you as you writeCite the author(s) as the source of ideas and provide full documentationPARAPHRASEParaphrase offers more detail than summaryDo not have source in front of you as you writeDo not substitute synonyms for some or most of an author’s wordsUse your own sentence and paragraph structure as well as your own words.Cite the author(s) as the source of ideas and provide full documentation01/14/19 PLAGIARIZED PARAPHRASEORIGINALMcCarthy never seemed to believe in himself or in anything he had said. He knew that Communists were not in charge of American foreign policy. He knew that they weren’t running the United States Army. He knew that he had spent five years looking for Communists in the government and that--although some must certainly have been there, since Communists had turned up in practically every other major government in the world--he hadn’t come up with even one.PLAGIARIZEDMcCarthy never believed in himself or in anything he had said. He knew that Communists weren’t in charge of American foreign policy and that they weren’t running the US Army. He also knew he had spent five years looking for Communists without finding even one.McCarthy knew that Communists were not running foreign policy or the Army. He also knew that although there must have been some Communists in the government, he hadn’t found a single one, even though he had spent five years looking.01/14/19 CORRECT PARAPHRASEORIGINALMcCarthy never seemed to believe in himself or in anything he had said. He knew that Communists were not in charge of American foreign policy. He knew that they weren’t running the United States Army. He knew that he had spent five years looking for Communists in the government and that--although some must certainly have been there, since Communists had turned up in practically every other major government in the world--he hadn’t come up with even one.PARAPHRASEAccording to Richard Rovere (1967), McCarthy was fully aware that Communists were running neither the government nor the Army. He also knew that a lengthy search had not discovered a single Communist (p. 192).DIRECT QUOTATIONUse direct quotation when an author has used striking or efficient language, or when you will comment upon specific moments within a passageRepeat words and punctuation exactlyUse quotation marks for passages less than 40 words, indentation for longer passagesDo not misrepresent your source by removing passages from their contextCite the author(s) as the source of ideas and provide full documentationBASICS OF IN-TEXT CITATIONSInclude author, year, (and page numbers for print sources) with any paraphrase or direct quotation.Wilson (1994) has described in detail his research regarding the role of prominent images in memory formation.Wilson (1994) claims that we assemble our memories around a few images that hold special significance for us (p. 5).Research suggests that memories are built “around a small collection of dominating images” (Wilson, 1994, p. 5).BASICS OF REFERENCES PAGEList only works you’ve cited or referred to in your textList works alphabetically, by last names of primary authorsPut year in parentheses after name(s) of author(s)Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns for titles of books and articlesAVOIDING PLAGIARISMKeep careful notes of your research.Don’t look at your source while you summarize or paraphraseDo not substitute synonyms for some or most of the words in an author’s passageUse your own sentence an paragraph structure as well as your own words. Check your text against the original source.Always cite the original author and provide full documentation of your source.01/14/19 ReferencesRaimes, A. (2002). Keys for writers: A brief handbook. (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Behrens, L. & Rosen, L.J. (2000). Writing and reading across the curriculum. (7th ed.). New York: Longman.YOUR ASSIGNMENTYou will write a carefully documented research paper using summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation.Follow APA guidelines available in several guides and online at www.apastyle.orgYou will provide photocopies of all of your sources.Your assignment is available at Dr. Miller’s class website (http://orca.st.usm.edu/~miller)SAMPLE ESSAYYour essay will be similar in length and format to the sample essay with the following exceptions.Use APA style for title. (running head, etc.)Indentations for long quotations should be 1/2 inch from left marginGuidelines for Web references have changed since 1997.APA GUIDELINE FOR WEB REFERENCESName of author(s) if availabledate of work (“n.d” if no date is available)title of work with additional necessary information added in brackets [letter to the editor, data file, etc]print publication information (such as name of journal, volume number, page numbers)retrieval statement containing the date you retrieved the information and the name of the database or URL of the specific document you refer to, not just the home pageCURRENT SAMPLE WEB REFERENCEAnsburg, P. (2000, April 24). Fechner’s law [Lecture notes]. Retrieved March 15, 2001, from http://clem.mscd.edu/~ansburg/sensationperception/splecchpt2.htm01/14/19