Plagiarism: Video Analysis

I understand that all forms of plagiarism and unauthorised collusion are regarded as academic dishonesty by the university, resulting in penalties including failure of the unit of study and possible disciplinary action.

After completing this activity, I understood the concept of plagiarism and how to use information from other sources. Also, I’m now aware of how to cite & when to cite to avoid plagiarism & it’s repercussions. This worksheet made me realize the significance of being responsible when using other people’s wordings and ideas, as they’re considered to be an academic property.

Each is used in essays depending on the source, level of knowledge used compared to the authors and readers, and the phrasing of the source. Quotes are needed when it's "said so well that it's worth repeating", too complex to briefly state clearly, establishing creditability, what is being analyzed by the writer, and differing views for the writer. Paraphrasing is used to bring out important details and to simplify for clarity. Summarizing is the basic opposite of paraphrasing, focusing on main idea rather than the details. After page 389 it goes into detail, providing examples, and clarifying

Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be deemed to be plagiarism if the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the student’s own.

Clearly, plagiarism and other types of academic misconduct are not acceptable in the academic environment. Students’ academic assignments will be evaluated to

Even cite paraphrased information. Quoted or paraphrased material should not dominate a student’s work; use it sparingly to support your own thoughts, ideas, and examples.  Failure to properly cite material can jeopardize a passing grade on the exam. Your work may be submitted to turnitin.com, an online plagiarism checking service.

The article, “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” by Dana Driscoll and Allen Brizee clarifies and explains what quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing are and their differences. Driscoll and Brizee explain the importance of quoting, paraphrasing, and summering and how they can be integrated into any text to properly give credit to the original owners of the text that it being quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

According to APA manual, paraphrasing or directly quotation of others ideas o material needs proper citation. Without citation the reader will not understand that the writer has used an evidence base research in his work. It gives credit to the source and credibility to the writer’s work (Walden University, 2012f).

After reading the list of sources about plagiarism, I still believed that Yale has a better definition. Yale describe plagiarism as “a discrete offense a specific failure to give credit to a particular source.” It also asked the writer where is there voice in the writing. Yale describe plagiarism as a writer that is dishonest and a thief. The list of sources gives a simple definition but not as detail as Yale. The list of sources also focuses more on tips, strategies, examples and consequences of plagiarizing.

Not paraphrasing appropriately will be considered plagiarizing and will at a minimum result in a zero for the assignment. Please see syllabus for other possible scenarios.

There are many forms of plagiarism, including intentional and unintentional, or plagiarism that was committed accidentally, such as when a student writes down an idea that they read elsewhere, and did not remember reading, and plagiarism with intent, where a student takes material from a source and purposefully does not cite it, intending the content to be believed to be that students own work.

Copying words and ideas from published sources: Students copy information without the acknowledgment of the source; summarizing or paraphrasing of the text without the acknowledgment of the source. To acknowledge the source, student must reference or cite to it.

Things I’ve learned from the video is that when students plagiarism the main reason is because they have ran out of time. Plagiarism usually occurs internally and unintentionally. Waiting till the last minute, you have no idea how and what you should do, so you feel looking up the answer would best benefit you. You’re rushing through the assignment, just worried about getting it done, you don’t think to cite. Without citing you’re taking credit from another person’s work. When using a quote or summarizing something, you have to give credit and when you’re in a rush you don’t think to give it where it’s due. It may not seem like such a big deal, but it really is. Plagiarizing someone else’s work can get you a zero or worse kicked out the class

BPII Topic sentence: Paraphrasing is another way to borrow information from a source and putting into your own words.

Rephrasing the ideas or information we retrieve from an original source in our paper is called paraphrasing. In order to perform an acceptable paraphrasing we should avoid using not more than a few words from original text. We should be careful not change the meaning of the idea that we are trying to express as we rephrase. We should cite the paraphrased sentences otherwise it considered as Plagiarism. We understood that if anything we used from a different source, hat was more than 3 words have to be in quotation marks. We learned not to contain series of quotations in our paper, which makes our paper