Plagarism

[DerbyGull]

I've got to hand in dissertation on Wednesday, and I'm not sure what plagiarism is exactly. I've done alot of cutting and pasting with out paraphrasing, but I always reference anything I use. So what exactly constitutes plagiarism?

If you quote someone, don't put quote marks next to their name but acknowledge where that wording came from, does this constitute plagiarism?

 

[Albalbion]

plagiarism is taking someones work as your own, if youve taken poeces of someones work but referenced them correctly you should be fine.

 

[Beach Hut]

Trouble is if it is deemed as plagiarism it will be rejected.

 

[DerbyGull]

So is cut and paste acceptable as long as you put Johnson (2006) at the end for example?, effectively I'm not passing it off as my own because i've attributed it to Johnson, but I'm not putting it into my own words either.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I have had to send Easy10 over £300 for stories that i must have accidentally stolen from him down the years. If i'd remembered and mentioned they were his, then i'd have come out even from it. It's quite unsettling to get a letter from his solicitor with the time, date and exact wording of his copyrighted material that i'd nabbed for the swelling of mine own ego. In general, i have to write an apology and admission of guilt in the Meade's_Ball newsletter, but i try to hide as best as i can on page 14 below the tale of a sheep and its lost comb, or something.

 

[Beach Hut]

So is cut and paste acceptable as long as you put Johnson (2006) at the end for example?, effectively I'm not passing it off as my own because i've attributed it to Johnson, but I'm not putting it into my own words either.

See PM sent

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Trouble is if it is deemed as plagiarism it will be rejected.

 

[Beach Hut]

Trouble is if it is deemed as plagiarism it will be rejected.

Precisely it will fall at the first hurdle so have advised him to contact someone who may well know quite a bit about this.

 

[Albalbion]

i dont think you can just reference the quote, like 'johnson 2006' i think you have to also say where you got the quote from, eg 'johnson, page 46, the big book of plagiarism, 2006'

 

[sir danny cullip]

Just make sure you take the time to check it through after getting some proper guidance, my mate had a 30 credit dissertation awarded a mark of zero last year for one paragraph that wasn't properly referenced despite having no clue he'd done it.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

You can always run your finished piece of work through ... Check for Plagiarism On the Web For Free - PlagiarismChecker.com

As, indeed, can the person who gets to read your dissertation.



Read this ... Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement: Is Copying Illegal?

 

[sir danny cullip]

Most unis also have something on the online library where you can upload a piece of work and it gives you a '% plagarism' figure and tells you the guidelines ie 10% = completely normal, anything above 20% is too high etc

 

[Publius Ovidius]

do a Bibliography at the end of your work, stating where and who you have quoted from, giving fulkl details right down to publishers and year and you will be fine ( that is what we do on OU degree courses)

You will also need to add footnotes against the quote so the marker knows what quote is what

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

1 Trouble is if it is deemed as plagiarism it will be rejected.





1 Beach Hut, Plagarism #3

 

[Publius Ovidius]

so long as the quotes are relevant to backing up your argument....if you have just packed it with unrealted stuff then Yes, it will be canned

 

[Perkino]

If you are using sombody's words you have to put it in quotation marks followed by (Author's surname, date of publication) e.g (Johnson, 2006)

If the quotation is more than 2 sentences tan you have to indent the quotation in it's own special section followed by (Author's surname, date of publication) e.g (Johnson, 2006) with both of these examples you must have a references page and within the references page you must cite the book that the qutation was taken from as ...Surname, initial. (date) Title of the book, extended title. Place the book was published: publishers
e.g Johnson, A. (2006) My Life I Was Once A Palace Scumbag Centre Forward. London: Mummy Johnson Ltd

 

[Lord Bracknell]

1 Trouble is if it is deemed as plagiarism it will be rejected.





1 Beach Hut, Plagarism #3

Oi! You stole the idea of copying Beach Hut's words from ME.

 

[matt]

I would think that you would need to make it clear which parts of *your* work are pasted directly from another source rather than merely adding a footnote/reference to the source without giving an indication of what are your words and what aren't.

 

[DerbyGull]

You can always run your finished piece of work through ... Check for Plagiarism On the Web For Free - PlagiarismChecker.com

As, indeed, can the person who gets to read your dissertation.



Read this ... Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement: Is Copying Illegal?

Cheers, i'm still just as confused though

 

[DerbyGull]

do a Bibliography at the end of your work, stating where and who you have quoted from, giving fulkl details right down to publishers and year and you will be fine ( that is what we do on OU degree courses)

You will also need to add footnotes against the quote so the marker knows what quote is what

We've never been taught to use footnotes, i think it must be because we use harvard over oscola.