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Hi and welcome back to this tutorial series. this one is on Plagiarism and Citation. Plagiarism
is the use of another person's words or ideas without proper credit. it's something that
is against the code of conduct for students and it's something that's usually mentioned
in professors' syllabi. A thing definitely to be avoided. with varying consequences.
It's a concern a lot of professors and instructors have of students and a concern a lot of students
have. when they're doing their Academic Research and writing that they might inadvertently...
commit plagiarism or not cite something properly. so, in order to avoid all that... this stress.
there's a few tips we can... take, there's a few steps we can try. and some tools that
we can use to avoid concern on issues of plagiarism. the very first and best tip that I have...
Take good notes of everything you come across including images that you might use later
in your Research project. if you're using Library resources. you can usually very easily
email copies of articles or. information about books or other things to yourself and just
keep a folder in your email for the whole semester. whatever works best for you but
save that stuff. When I'm working on a writing project I actually like to print things out.
I'm old school that way. and just keep the paper copies of things in a folder along with
jotted notes about what I might want to quote. and how I might want to use those quotes.
THat works really well for me, but I'm old fashioned. You can use a word document. cut
and paste things to assemble into a final Research project and just keep. when all of
your notes. information about where you found. ideas. If you ever found a quote or an idea
somewhere else and don't know where, come to the Library and maybe we can track it down.
but the best. best and first tip of course is to keep in to keep track of these things
for yourself. this is a process that you learn and develop as a scholarly writer throughout
your college career for sure. and going beyond into any professional writing that you do
you'll figure out what works for you and adopt it. if you ever have any questions. like I
said about where an idea came from a can into Library few questions about how it's to put
someone's thoughts ideas into a project correctly with citations. the Academic support center
the writing center. ask your instructor. You have a lot of resources. the one question.
that comes up pretty regularly is when do I cite? what tells me that I have to cite
something? What tells me that it is common knowledge? the chart simplfies it pretty well.
If you're using another person's words.... You definitely Quote with Quotation marks
and cite. and a bibliography. If you're using another person's ideas then you will cite
it. that's the idea of paraphrasing. We will talk a little bit about that in a minute.
if you not using another person's words or ideas it came solely from your own head, a
synthesis of things you read you just come up with it on your own then you don't need
to cite. you can discuss this with your instructor, the Academic Support Center, the writing center
or with us in the library if you're not sure how. Things can get a little grey in the center
there. we are here to help. um. when those grey areas come up. one thing that can help
you with paraphrasing-- if you find yourself using these Signal phrases. in your writing.
[reads from screen] Then you're signaling to your reader and yourself. you are using
some one else's idea. so it's a pretty obvious clue, and this also I should say really helps
your instructor. know that you're paraphrasing and that they need to look for that Citation,
that this didn't come out of your own head. This will head off concerns about plagiarism
and make it very clear that ideas come from somewhere else. so these Signal phrases can
help both you and your instructor. with concerns about paraphrasing. that's really when the
most common concerns we see in the Library. when citing is how do I make it clear that
I'm using another person's ideas. How do I make it more fluid, make it sound better.
along with those Signal phrases for paraphrasing there are Signal phrases for quoting. and
again this makes your writing sound more fluid, it just sounds better. [reads from screen]
so. this obviously, beyond the quote marks, makes it obvious... that you're using someone
else's actual direct words it sounds natural, easier for your readers to identify. It still
uses Quote marks but these phrases make it sound more natural. the idea of how to quote
is really not that difficult...the fluidity, the writing is the harder part. Again, look
at those signal phrases. a handout will be linked to this video. Citing within the document
it is what gives.... students a lot of concerns as well. and... There are a lot of guides.
This is from the library's website... It is not the best guide ever, I must admit. The
video will link to guides online. This gives you a good example, though. on. with. college
Citation. part of the concern is with this thing called parentheticals--you can see some
examples here. on. where it says quotation number one [reads screen] The year is in parentheses
after the author's name and then at the end of the quote there's quote marks, page number
and period. that's what's meant by parentheticals. this is what your instructor most likely will
want to see in your paper and then a standard bibliography at the end. um. you have resources
that can help you pull this together .no one expects you to know how to do this on your
own. ASC writing center Library. we can all help you figure this out. especially the first
few times you do it. you just need to practice it in order to become competent at it and
see a lot of examples of it. [describes cites on screen] These appear as well when paraphrasing,
not just with quotes. you won't have the quote marks, that's the only difference. [reads
from screen] so. if you. [reads from screen] you'd have the paraphrase and then the parenthetical elements.
the parentheticals are present whether or not it's a direct quote. the parentheticals
will be present every time the information did not come out of your own head. for The
bibliography, at the end of each tutorial I've had a bibliography since images need
to be cited as much as anything else this example is in APA format. um. I've done this
enough that it's second nature after twenty years. but for you folks who are just starting
out you're going to obviously need guidance there's linked guides to this video. the library
website has one, there's one called online writing lab that you can google there's the
website Citation machine dot net. that can be very handy as well. so don't strain yourself.
don't get frustrated. don't. don't get upset. remember your resources--you got the Library,
the writing center, Academic support center, you've got your instructor. we just want to
give credit where credit is due. and this makes your writing stronger because it's showing
how you read others' ideas and synthesized them into your own thoughts: the whole point
of education We're on your side and hopefully these tools will make it a lot easier for
you.