1. PLAGIARISM: It’s an issue of
respecting your sources and yourself

2. Plagiarism:
Literary
theft of
someone’s
words,
thoughts,
expressions,
images or
sounds and
presenting
them as your
own without
acknowledging
the original
source

3. Plagiarism comes
from the Latin
word
“plagiarius”
which means
kidnapper or to
plunder.

4. According to a
2001 survey by
Rutgers
University, 1/2
of students
surveyed
admitted to
some type of
plagiarism on
written
assignments.

5. In fact, a New
Jersey high
school
valedictorian was
denied admission
to Harvard
University when
she plagiarized
content in a
newspaper article
she wrote.

6. Intentional plagiarism =

7. Don’t do any of the
following:
• Copy and submit someone else’s work
as your own
• Buy or borrow papers
• Cut and paste without proper
documentation
• Change words here and there, but copy
the original sentence structure
• Anything that I missed that would be
done with the intent to represent the
original work as your own

8. Unintentional
plagiarism
• Usually done
because student
doesn’t understand
how to properly
cite.
• Insufficient
paraphrasing
•
• Poor or
inappropriate
documentation

9. Just to
confuse
you: some
things are
considered
common
knowledge
and don’t
need to be
cited.

10. If found in five (5) or more sources,
the information is considered common
knowledge and does not need to be
cited
Examples:
Barack Obama is the 44th President.
Pearl Harbor was attacked on December
7, 1941.
Pit Bulls are awesome, despite their
misrepresentation in the mainstream
media.

11. What is self-plagiarism,
otherwise referred to as
“double-dipping” your own
written work?

12. It is not okay to
“double-up.”
Self-plagiarism
is using the same
(or very near the
same) paper for
two different
classes without
permission from
both instructors
to do so.

13. Avoiding plagiarism is
just a step away.

14. Summarize by
boiling things
down to basic
concepts. This
can mean summing
up an entire
paragraph in one
sentence by just
focusing on the
skeleton of the
ideas expressed.

15. Paraphrase: Express the meaning
of a written or spoken passage using
your own words, words that are
different from the original source
Play with
words and
phrases.
Reword.
Rework.
Get
creative.

16. Original Passage
Devices in the iPod range are
primarily digital audio players
designed around a central click
wheel, although the iPod shuffle
has buttons, also.
Paraphrase
An iPod is an MP3 player that lets
the listener choose and play music
by using a touch wheel to make
selections. Some versions also
have buttons.

17. Be clear.
• Mark and properly cite quotations
• Paraphrase and summarize information from
your sources matter in your own words
• Use of own words while taking notes and
organizing paper
• Highlight or otherwise mark words or sentence
structure elements that you need to change
when compared to the original source
• Cite all information that isn’t common
knowledge with in-text, parenthetical
citations
• Include a References page
• Use author’s name as a tag to give credit
within a sentence

18. Cite it all!
✔Someone else’s spoken or written content
(aka, a quotation)
✔Facts or ideas not commonly known (all
the stuff you had to look up)
✔Images, statistics, details,
observations, descriptions, eye-witness
accounts, and interviews (pretty much
everything that didn’t come directly from
you, yes?)
✔Opinions, arguments, and speculations
from sources other than yourself
✔Detailed content involving descriptive
terms, proper nouns, and names (If you
are using someone else’s clever catch
phrase, give them props.)