Avoiding Plagiarism
Academic misconduct can be less obvious than you think. This workshop will give you practical information to ensure your writing is plagiarism-free.
DATE: Thursday, April 19th, 2018
TIME: 1:00PM – 2:00PM
ROOM: Namm 700
Open to all City Tech Students. Faculty encouraged to attend.
This workshop is highly recommended to everyone to attend. If you would like to use this as an extra credit opportunity, write at least 250 words about what you learned. Make sure that you include a definition of plagiarism in your own words. If you cite anything, add references at the bottom of your essay.
TO: Professor Dr. Jason W. Ellis
FROM: Ronald C. Hinds
SUBJECT: Preparation for “Avoiding Plagiarism” workshop
DATE: April 16, 2018
I will do my utmost to attend the “Avoiding Plagiarism” workshop on Thursday, April 19, 2018, at the Namm building. In the meantime, I will like to refer my fellow classmates to an article by Sheila Kaplan, a reporter, who covers medicine, money, and politics at the New York Times. She captures, in an article dated April 10, 2018, and titled, “Expulsion Urged at Elite Academy,” an investigation into an allegation of blatant plagiarism by Dr. Eric K. Noji. He was elected and admitted to the Institute of Medicine which is a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in 2005 and was under enquiry for serious violations in 2016 for “Falsification, plagiarism or fabrication” but after a doctor becomes a member of this elite organization there is no provisional rule for his/her removal from the organization. The case against Dr. Noji is still under consideration.
I think reading this article can focus us on the scourge of plagiarism and give a concrete view, ahead of the subject, of Thursday’s event.
Reference
Kaplan, S. (2018, April). “Expulsion Urged at Elite Academy.” New York Times. Late ed. D3.
Keywords: Blatant, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism.
Academic plagiarism is when you intentionally or unintentionally use someone else content to the exact quote and try to pass it off as your own message. There are many ways to plagiarize someone but according to Bowdoin University there are four common practices of plagiarism in the academic system direct, self, mosaic, and accidental plagiarism. Direct plagiarism is when you copy word for word someone else work without giving them credit nor quotations, self-plagiarism is when you mix up your own work from other classes without informing the teacher/professors that you were going to do it, mosaic plagiarism is similar to direct plagiarism where you do not use quotation marks when using someone’s work, but you intentionally switch words around while keeping the structure they used. Finally, accidental plagiarism is when you forget to cite the source you used, misquote that source, or paraphrase their work using similar words without an in-text citation.
City Tech held an academic plagiarism prevention workshop today, I attended the event out of curiosity to see if anyone was actually going to or see if they had to cancel because of the Spring Wellness Festival being held downstairs. However, to my surprise there was 15-25 people there and most were professors. At this workshop I learned about the many different situations that can get me in trouble for academic plagiarism or misconduct. For example, if I was to rewrite some of the sentences in my friend’s paper that would fall under mosaic plagiarism which is something I did not think professors can detect, but then again professors know students write overtime. Another example of plagiarism that I think people over look is when you describe something in an essay the exact way a teacher described it during when they were going over it in class falls under direct plagiarism. I guess plagiarism can happen at any moment of a document and although it can be accidental many professors will see it as it being intentional, especially finals where people cram in work without reviewing it. Professor Ellis, I can see why you stress to us the importance citing information and typing everything we will use in the essay before beginning the actual essay. At the same event I discovered the writing across the curriculum group at City Tech. I think would definitely benefit me in the future if I collaborate with a professor from that group.
Refrences
The common types of Plagiarism. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2018, from https://www.bowdoin.edu/studentaffairs/academic-honesty/common-types.shtml
Academic plagiarism is when you intentionally or unintentionally use someone else content to the exact quote and try to pass it off as your own message. There are many ways to plagiarize someone but according to Bowdoin University there are four common practices of plagiarism in the academic system direct, self, mosaic, and accidental plagiarism. Direct plagiarism is when you copy word for word someone else work without giving them credit nor quotations, self-plagiarism is when you mix up your own work from other classes without informing the teacher/professors that you were going to do it, mosaic plagiarism is similar to direct plagiarism where you do not use quotation marks when using someone’s work, but you intentionally switch words around while keeping the structure they used. Finally, accidental plagiarism is when you forget to cite the source you used, misquote that source, or paraphrase their work using similar words without an in-text citation.
City Tech held an academic plagiarism prevention workshop today, I attended the event out of curiosity to see if anyone was actually going to or see if they had to cancel because of the Spring Wellness Festival being held downstairs. However, to my surprise there was 15-25 people there and most were professors. At this workshop I learned about the many different situations that can get me in trouble for academic plagiarism or misconduct. For example, if I was to rewrite some of the sentences in my friend’s paper that would fall under mosaic plagiarism which is something I did not think professors can detect, but then again professors know students write overtime. Another example of plagiarism that I think people over look is when you describe something in an essay the exact way a teacher described it during when they were going over it in class falls under direct plagiarism. I guess plagiarism can happen at any moment of a document and although it can be accidental many professors will see it as it being intentional, especially finals where people cram in work without reviewing it. Professor Ellis, I can see why you stress to us the importance citing information and typing everything we will use in the essay before beginning the actual essay. At the same event I discovered the writing across the curriculum group at City Tech. I think would definitely benefit me in the future if I collaborate with a professor from that group.
References
The common types of Plagiarism. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2018, from https://www.bowdoin.edu/studentaffairs/academic-honesty/common-types.shtml