Professional Documents
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Avoiding Plagiarism
Basic Definition of Plagiarism
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~jaffairs/acaddishonesty/acaddishonesty.htm
Characteristics of Plagiarism
• Lacks guidance
– Illegal/unethical
– Inadvertent/Unintentional
• Inadvertent/Unintentional
– Result of poor research methods
– Illegal/unethical – also embarrassing
• Intentional
– Illegal/unethical
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Plagiarism Quiz
I only have to use quotation marks if the material
I am using is copyrighted—true or false?
• http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/item1.html
• http://panther.indstate.edu/tutorials/plagiarism
• http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/tutorials/interactive/ pl
agiarism/tutorial/introduction.htm