GEN 001 LESSON 17

• Review guidelines in
avoiding plagiarism
• Practice summarizing
 Plagiarism happens whenever a
person COPIES another person’s
published or recorded thoughts,
formulations, or wording without
PROPER CREDITS.
 “Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s ideas or
language without acknowledging that they were
not created by you. This definition applies to
ideas, words and unusual structures regardless of
where you find them — in a book, on a webpage,
in an email.
 Whenever you include another person’s
information or wording in a document, you must
acknowledge the source and include a citation
that will tell your readers where you obtained it —
otherwise you are guilty of plagiarism.”
While plagiarism generally ends up in the same
unfortunate place, with a person "STEALING"
someone else’s work as his or her own, it may or
may not happen intentionally
 • where it isn’t
always clear
how or why
• In its most basic
plagiarism has
form — word-for-
word copying of a
taken place.
source text
without PROPER
CREDITS.
• Plagiarism applies to ideas and formulations that
are unique and distinct and that are considered
“original” to a particular author or source.
 ’

01 02

1) Quote: Use the writer’s 2) Paraphrase: Rewrite

actual words the writer’s ideas in
• use quotation marks your own words and
• give reference details, name the writer
• keep the meaning
including the
• change the words
page/paragraph
and the word order
number.
• give reference detail
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3) Summarize: Rewrite the 02

writer’s ideas in your own words
in a shorter form
• keep the author’s main ideas
• avoid copying the author’s
words
• make it clear which ideas are
yours, and which are the
author’s
• give reference details.
 Do: LESSON 17
Skill-building Activities, part 1