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1. DOCUMENTATION

2. Documentation
-any communicable material that is used to
describe, explain or instruct regarding some
attributes of an object, system or
procedure, such as its parts, assembly,
installation, maintenance and use.
Documentation can be provided on paper,
online, or on digital or analog media, such as
audio tape or CDs. (Wikipedia)

3. Importance of
documentation
Immediate
consequences and
long-term effects
Practicing the
principles of ethical
research
3 significant points:

5. A Note on Plagiarism
To plagiarize means to copy another person’s
ideas, words or work and pretend that they are
your own.
-Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary

6. Do the research and write the paper
YOURSELF.
Adhere to the approved research practices.
Follow school-and discipline related guidelines
for working with people, resources, and
technology.
Avoid one-sided research that ignores or
conceals opposition.
Treat source material fairly in your
writing.

7. A recent NY Times study (2003) on plagiarism
involving 23 institutions within the US, results
found:
Thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate
students surveyed said that in the last year they
had engaged in one or more instances of ''cut-
and-paste'' plagiarism involving the Internet,
paraphrasing or copying anywhere from a few
sentences to a full paragraph from the Web
without citing the source" and that "almost half
of the students said they considered such
behavior trivial or not cheating at all .
(Rimer, 2003, para. 2).

8. Supachai rejects plagiarism claims,
threatens legal action
-Local News, Front Page, The Bangkok Post, June 23,2012
*about NIA’s chief Supachai’s alleged plagiarized PhD in
Chulalongkorn University

9. Hungary's president resigns over
plagiarized PhD
Most of his 1992 doctoral dissertation copied from other works
The Associated Press, Apr 2, 2012
Former Hungarian president Pal Schmitt, right, walks to his office
with Prime Minister Viktor Orban after Schmitt announced his
resignation on Monday.(Laszlo Beliczay/Associated Press)

10. No one knows it, everybody
does it, WHY WORRY?
•Ethics gone?
•Plagiarism is on the rise –in the academe
and in mass media.
•Deliberate or accidental?
CONSEQUENCES:
•Punishment, suspension, expulsion

11. Documenting Sources
Properly
•Quoting
•Summarizing
•Paraphrasing

12. PARAPHRASE
SUMMARY
•Restatement of
the original source
in approx. the
same number of
words
•Re-writing
another writer’s
ideas in your own
words without
altering the
meaning
•Condensed
version of the
original (shorter
version: 1/3 of the
size of the
original)
•putting down
the ideas of
someone else’s
work in your own
words
•Accurate Representation of the
original source

13. •Use quotation marks every time you
use the author's words. (For longer
quotes, indenting the whole quotation
has the same effect as quotation
marks.)

14. Avoiding accidental
plagiarism
•Cite every piece of information that
is not
a) the result of your own research,
or b) common knowledge.
* opinions, arguments, speculations,
facts, details, figures, and statistics

15. •At thebeginningof thefirst sentencein
which you quote, paraphrase, or
summarize, make it clear that what comes
next is someone else's idea:
•According to X...
•X says...
•In his 1987 study, X proved...

16. •At theendof thelast sentencecontaining
quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material,
insert aparenthetical citationto show where the
material came from:
TheSt. Martin's Handbookdefines plagiarism as
"the use of someone else's words or ideas as [the
writer's] own without crediting the other person"
(Lunsford and Connors, 602).
(Notice the use of brackets to mark a change in the
wording of the original.)

17. Forms of accidental plagiarism
•Paraphrasing with no citation
•Misplaced citation

18. Paraphrasing with no
citation
Lunsford and Connors (1995) specified two
examples of unacceptable paraphrase:
•use of the author's words
•use the author's sentences structures
This point is crucial:without the information
about the source, an appropriate
paraphrase becomes plagiarism.

19. •Even if you have avoided using the
author's words, sentence structure,
or style,an unattributed paraphrase
is plagiarism because it presents
the same information in the same
order.

20. Misplaced Citation
•For paraphrase or direct quotation
->place the reference at the very end
of all the material cited. Any quoted,
paraphrased, or summarized material
that comesafterthe reference is
plagiarized: it looks like it is supposed to
be your own idea.

21. Original source:
Paraphrasing material helps you digest a passage,
because chances are you can't restate the passage in
your own words unless you grasp its full meaning.
When you incorporate an accurate paraphrase into
your essay, you show your readers that you understand
that source. (Lunsford and Connors 596)
Plagiarism (misplaced citation):
Lunsford and Connors say that paraphrasing is useful
because "paraphrasing material helps you digest a
passage, because chances are you can't restate the
passage in your own words unless you grasp its full
meaning" (596). When you incorporate an accurate
paraphrase into your essay, you show your readers your
understanding of that source.

22. Note on multiple
citations:
•Cite them all individually. It is not
adequate to give one citation at the end
of the paragraph for a bunch of individual
points abstracted from a source.