Plagiarism

Name two possible penalties listed in the MLA Handbook for committing plagiarism in a school setting:

1)Failure in the assignment or in the course 2)Expulsion from school

Name three possible penalties listed in the MLA Handbook for a professional writer who plagiarizes:

1)They are likely to lose their jobs 2)They are certain to suffer public embarassment 3)They also suffer loss of prestige

What specific harm is brought about by student plagiarism?

1)harm to students themselves 2)undermining or lowering of institutional standards 3)damage to institution reputation 4)students do not learn to re-write work from sources

Scholars seldom document

1)proverbs 2)sayings 3)cliches

In order to guard against unintentional plagiarism during the research process, it is important that you keep careful notes in order to distinguish among three types of material. List them:

1)your ideas 2)your summaries and paraphrases 3)exact wording you copy from sources

To achieve this goal, student writers must be very careful to distinguish between what they _____ and what they ________.

Borrow, create

The essential intellectual tasks of research call for a student to understand the published ______,______,and_______ about a subject and to integrate them with the student's own _______________

Facts,ideas,insights,views on the topic

Many schools develop_______,including______ codes,as means to promote academic________

Guidelines or procedures,honor,integrity

The second kind of wrong is passing off another person's _______,________,or_______ as your own to get a better grade or to gain some other advantage, which constitutes ________

Ideas,information,expressions, fraud

Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs: one is using another persons ______, _______,or ______ without acknowledging that persons work, which constitutes ___________

Ideas,information,expressions, intellectual theft

The most blatant form of plagiarism is to_________

Obtain and submit as your own a paper written by someone else

The word plaigiarism is derived from the latin word _______, meaning __________.

Plagiarius,kidnapper

The purpose of your research paper is to ______ previous research and scholarship with___________

Synthesis,Your ideas on the subject

Write the complete definition of plagiarism, according to Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as quoted in the MLA Handbook:

To plagiarize means "to commit literary theft" and to "present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source."

What should you do if you realize after turning in a paper that you accidentally plagiarized?

You should report the problem to your instructor as soon as possible