 Greet and Introduce

 Prayer
 Clealiness
 Post FB template
 What’s on your mind?
 Your name, Address, I want to…
 Using another person’s ideas without giving credit
to that person
 It happens when someone fails to document a
quotation or a phrase
 Omits quotation marks when lifting the exact text of
a source
 No references
 When you copy a text verbatim, make sure you use a quotation mark
 When you want to paraphrase an idea, it is not enough that you just
change a word or rearrange the sentences. You must completely
rewrite the idea using your own words. What’s the best thing to do?
Read and understand the idea. Set aside the materials then rewrite
the way you remember it.
 Cite the name of the author in a brief parenthetical reference in the
text of the paper.
 Mention the names of the source or author
 Why should we acknowledge sources?
 To present readers the source used for their reference
 Two ways of acknowledging sources:
 Parenthetical or in text citations (within the body of the research)
 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog (Albert et al.,2008)
 Reference entries (at the end of the paper)
 Alberts B. et al. 2008. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Garland Science
 MLA (Modern Language Association)
 APA (American Psychological Association)
 Before you write your paper, decide what you are going to use. Do not combine the
two methods as doing so will confuse your readers.
 AUTHOR’S NAME CITED IN PARETHESIS
 MLA: Dr. James is described as “not too skeletal Ichabod Crane” (Simon 68).
 APA: Dr. James is described as “not too skeletal Ichabod Crane” (Simon,1982, p.
68).
 Both styles advocate parenthetical citations; they differ, however, in the content
 MLA uses author-page citation; the APA uses author-year (and page for quotation)
citation.
 BOOK WITH AUTHOR
 MLA: Tichy, H. J. Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists. New York:
John Wiley & Sons, 1996. Print
 APA: Tichy, H. J (1996). Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists. New
York: John Wiley & Sons.
 BOOK WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
 MLA: Suid, Murray and Wanda Lincoln, Recipes for Writing. New York: Addition-
Wesley Publishing Company. 1991. Print
 APA: Suid, Murray & Lincoln W. (1991). Recipes for Writing. New York: Addition-
Wesley Publishing Company.
 Sotto delivers his turno en contra speech on the Reproductive Health bill at the
Senate
 they copied the work of American blogger Sarah Pope
 A day later, it was found that Sotto’s staff writers also copied from different websites
for the senator’s second speech.
 The gist: Just after its launch in January 2012, the Department of Tourism’s
(DOT) “It’s more fun in the Philippines” slogan was criticized for allegedly being a
copycat of a 1951 Swiss tourism slogan that read “It’s more fun in Switzerland.”
 What DOT did: Tourism Secretary Mon Jimenez took to Twitter to react on the
issue, saying that the similarity is just a coincidence.
 What happened next: The plagiarism issue eventually died down, especially after
Swiss Ambassador to Manila Ivo Sieber expressed his support for the “It’s more fun
in the Philippines” campaign.