PLAGIARISM, INTEGRITY, AND THEMLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS 7TH ED.

MY SOURCE… All of the

information in this presentation was

taken directly from the

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research

Papers 7th Edition

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?

2.1. DEFINITION OF PLAGIARISM

Derived from the Latin word plagiarius (“kidnapper”), to plagiarize means…

“to commit literary theft” and to

“present it as a new and original idea or product derived from an existing source”

(Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary [11th ed.; 2003; print]).

PLAGIARISM: THE TWO KINDS OF WRONGS

THE FIRST KIND OF PLAGIARISM…Using another person’s ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work constitutes intellectual theft.

WHAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE OF PLAGIARISM?

THE SECOND KIND OF PLAGIARISM…Passing off another person’s ideas, information, or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage constitutes fraud.

WHAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE OF PLAGIARISM?

2.2. CONSEQUENCES OF PLAGIARISM

2.2. CONSEQUENCES OF PLAGIARISM… Students exposed as plagiarists may suffer

severe penalties, ranging from failure in the assignment or in the course to expulsion from school.

WHAT IF I DIDN’T MEAN TO PLAGIARIZE?

2.4. UNINTENTIONAL PLAGIARISM The purpose of a research paper is to

synthesize previous research and scholarship with your ideas on the subject. Therefore, you should feel free to use other persons’ words, facts, and thoughts in your research paper, but the material you borrow must not be presented as if it were your own creation.

DOCUMENT THIS… When you write your research paper,

remember that you must document everything that you borrow—not only direct quotations and paraphrases but also information and ideas.

WHEN ISN’T DOCUMENTATION NEEDED?

2.6. WHEN DOCUMENTATION IS NOT NEEDED In general, information and ideas that are

“common knowledge,” such as the basic biography of an author or the dates of a historical event, can be used without documentation.

While direct quotations and paraphrases are always documented, scholars seldom document proverbs, sayings, and clichés.

When in doubt, cite your sources!

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF DOCUMENTATION?

TYPES OF DOCUMENTATION…Parenthetical CitationsWorks Cited Page

PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS In MLA documentation style, you acknowledge your

sources by keying brief parenthetical citations in your text to an alphabetical list of works that appears at the end of the paper (Works Cited page).

Ex. : The aesthetic and ideological orientation of jazz underwent considerable scrutiny in the late 1950s and early 1960s (Anderson 7).

The citation “(Anderson 7)” tells readers that the information in the sentence was derived from page 7 of a work by an author named Anderson. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the works-cited list, where, under the name Anderson, they would find the following information.

WORKS CITED PAGE Anderson, Iain. This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the

Sixties, and American Culture. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007. Print. The Arts and Intellectual Life in Mod. Amer.

This entry states that the work’s author is Iain Anderson and its title is This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture. The remaining information relates, in shortened form, that the work was produced in Philadelphia by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007 as a print publication in a book series called The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America.

WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW…

MAYBE THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW…Publication Information

Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print. Publication Name: PMLAVolume 121Issue 12006Page 124-38

OR WAS IT THIS??? Franke, Damon. Modernist Heresies: British

Literary History, 1883-1924. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008. Print.

MAYBE THIS???Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib. of Cong., 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2007. <http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/>.

REMEMBER…When in doubt

Cite it out!

THE ENDJust to be extremely clear…All information was taken from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research 7th ed.