2. What Is Plagiarism?
• Plagiarism can be considered many things. For
instance: Copy and Paste, Word-For-Word, or
paraphrasing could all be consider plagiarizing
other people’s work, words, or statements.
• Plagiarism is a serious problem, inside and
outside of school. Teachers feel very strongly
against this and also try to prevent students from
plagiarizing work when they assign work.
3. Want to Avoid It?
• Avoiding Plagiarism is easy! Here are the steps:
1. You must quote ANY and ALL work and
statements that are not your own.
2. You must cite ANY and ALL pictures that are
not your own.
3. You MUST make a resource page to give
credit to ANY and ALL webpages you got your
information from.
4. Penalties
• The penalties for participating in
Plagiarism are dependent on how severe
you plagiarized your work, paper or idea.
• If you are discovered to be guilty or in
fault the least may be an “F” on your
paper.
5. Rewards For NOT Plagiarizing
• The reward for not plagiarizing work is
self-satisfaction. You get that because you
as a person know that you didn’t have to
cheat to get an answer and most
importantly you did not get in trouble.
• You also get an A+!
6. What Is Copyrighting?
• Copyrighting is the legal rights to a creator
or publisher of an website, paper or
anything else that belong to them.
• For a person to copyright to take place, the
effect that the thing being copyrighted is an
“Original” idea.
8. Penalties? Of course there’s some!
• The consequences for Copyright
infringement are very severe. Some of
them include: Lawsuits from $200.00 to
$150,000 for each and every piece of
worked that is accused and found guilty.
• You may also go to jail as well.
9. Rewards for not copyrighting.
• The reward for not making a federal
offense against Copyrighted work is once
again, self satisfaction. The best reward
any person could ever want.
10. Netiquette
• Netiquette is/or the principles and
guidelines of the internet. It’s to help keep
all internet users on the right path while on
the internet.
• It keeps the internet user out of trouble by
providing helpful hints on how to improve
your internet courtesy.
11. Examples of Netiquette.
• Do not use all capital letters online.
• Avoid Sarcasm and Subtleties.
• Be positive.
• Never write harsh language.
• Never comment on things that weren’t
meant for you.
12. References
• Purdue university (2012):
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/
penalties.html
• Ralph E. Lerner and Judith Bresler. (2006):
http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/legalglossary/
g/copyright.htm
• S.E. Van Bramer (2010):
http://science.widener.edu/svb/essay/plagiar.html