Research Essay: Plagarism

 

KEEP FROM PLAGIARIZING Action during the writing process:		Appearance on the finished product:
When researching, note-taking, and interviewing.	Mark everything that is someone else’s words with big quotation marks.Indicate in your notes which ideas are taken from sources (S) and which are your own insights (ME). Record all of the relevant documentation information in your notes.		Proofread and check your notes to make sure that anything taken from your notes is acknowledged in some combination of the ways listed below:In-text citation Bibliography Quotation marks Indirect quotations
When paraphrasing and summarizing.	First, write your paraphrase and summary without looking at the original text, so you rely on your memory. Next, check your version with the original for content, accuracy, and mistakenly borrowed phrases.		Begin your summary with a statement giving credit to the source. According to Jonathon Kozol,… Put any unique phrases or words that you cannot change, or do not want to change, in quotation marks: …found that “savage inequalities” exist throughout our educational system (Kozol).
When quoting directly.	Keep the person’s name near the quote in your notes and in your paper. Select those direct quotes that make the most impact in your paper-too many direct quotes may lessen your credibility and interfere with your style.		Mention the person’s name either at the beginning of the quote, in the middle, or at the end. Put quotation marks around the text that you are quoting. Indicate added phrases in brackets ([ ]) and omitted text with ellipses (…).
When quoting indirectly.	Keep the person’s name near the text in your notes and in your paper. Rewrite the key ideas using different words and sentence structures than the original text.		Mention the person’s name either at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the information. Double check to make sure that your words and sentence structures are different than the original text.