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PDQ (Professional Development QuickTips)
Avoiding Plagiarism
Category:
Research
Tip:
Plagiarism -- when a student uses someone else's work without giving them credit -- is a real concern to teachers. You can help teachers teach students when to use someone's work in their research and when to write their own words and ideas.
- Model how to give credit for copied, adapted or paraphrased information.
- Use quotation marks and cite the source for any information copied verbatim.
- If you use the author's information in your own words or adapt any part of the original work, that is paraphrasing. You still need to cite the author and source.
- Any work that has been adapted by changing a word here or there but keeps the original work is essentially the same, and you still need to give credit to the source.
- Show how to copy and paste someone's work to use in notes, for factual information, and to include in research. There are situations where students will need to include the original material and know how to properly cite the source using MLA standards.
- Students who have trouble writing their own ideas are not alone. This is a difficult concept for most people. Encourage your teachers to have students write everyday in a journal. The more they write, the easier it becomes.
Some good online sources for note-taking tips and resources:
Submitted by:
Barbara Bray
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Teaching Reading for Comprehension
PDQ Coordinator: Barbara Bray, President, My eCoach
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