Plagiarism workshop

Enrolled Nurses

2020, February 21,

MIT Manukau Campus

Iva Matagi
Information Services
Kia orana! Today’s objectives

You will understand:

• The importance of maintaining a high level of Academic

Integrity and Honesty

• What the different forms of plagiarism looks like

• Strategies to avoid plagiarism

Academic integrity 1
Marley, Pua and Clarke have worked together on a group
presentation. The presentation was marked as a group
however the reflection referencing Gibbs refelctive cycle is an
individual mark. Clarke has not had time to do any reading
and wants to read either Marley or Pua’s draft reflection to
see if she’s on the ‘right track’.

a. Pua gives Clarke her notes to read

b. Marley thinks nothing of helping a friend and gives Clarke

his essay to read

c. Ziggy who overhears the conversation recommends to

Clarke to contact their lecturer or Subject Librarian for
help finding resources
Honesty 2

Ziggy is running late to his clinical placement on a busy ward.

a. Ziggy texts ahead to say he will be late and signs in the

normal starting time when she arrives

b. The ward is busy so Ziggy slides into placement and does

not mention his lateness as noone has noticed

c. Ziggy texts ahead to say he will be late and signs in his

late arrival time
Plagiarism
The MIT Student Regulations provides a succinct definition for plagiarism:

Plagiarism is using someone else’s work without indicating that the ideas
are not your own. Plagiarism may be either intentional or unintentional. It
involves paraphrasing or copying information (e.g. from books, journal
articles, electronic sources such as the internet or databases, sound
recordings, films, other students, your own previous work) without
appropriately acknowledging/referencing the source. (Manukau Institute of
Technology, 2020, p.25.).

• Example above is of a block quotation – 40 words or more, include author, date and
page number in the in-text citation.

•Incorporate direct quotations of less than 40 words into your running text using
double quotation marks. For example “plagiarism may be either intentional or
unintentional” (Manukau Institute of Technology, 2020, p.25.).
Exercise 1a: Identify plagiarism

Look at the original text and write in each box:

Which is the Plagiarised text?

Which is the Summarised text?

Which is the Paraphrased text?

Exercise 1b: Identify common features – How

can you tell which is the Plagiarised text?

Plagiarised
Pacific youth often speak
about ‘walking between
two worlds’. They are
often balancing the values
of the western word and
the Pacific world. You can
see this in the challenges
with maintaining Pacific
languages as their first
language.
 
•  word for word copying
• No in- text citation – source
not acknowledgment
Summarised
Drewery and Claiborne
(2014) suggest that
language retention and the
impact of opposing
worldviews has an impact
on the development
process of New Zealand
born Pasifika youth.
•  In-text citation – source
acknowledged
• Summarised in own words –
main idea/theme
Original text
Pacific people in Aotearoa
live alongside other ethnic
groups and cultures and
speak English as a main
form of communication. As
many are born in
Aotearoa, there are some
fundamental challenges
with maintaining Pacific
languages as their mother
tongue. Youth often speak
out about ‘walking
between two worlds’ in
their development. This
refers to balancing the
values of the western
world and the Pacific
world.
 
Paraphrased
New Zealand born Pasifika find
it hard to maintain their Pacific
language in Aotearoa when
English is the dominant
language (Drewery &
Claiborne, 2014). Pasifika
youth talk about having to
navigate between two
separate world views, the
Pakeha, western world view
and their own Pacific
worldviews (Drewery &
Claiborne, 2014).
•  In-text citation – source
acknowledged
• Re-written in own words
Exercise 2: Forms of plagiarism
Common forms of plagiarism – Connect the meanings

Direct plagiarism
Word for word copying of parts of a text without acknowledging the original
source

Mosaic plagiarism
Copying a mix of words or phrases without acknowledging the original source

Self-plagiarism
Reusing parts of your essay from last semester without acknowledging the
source (yourself) or gaining permission from your lecturer

Accidental plagiarism
Forgetting or not knowing to cite sources used or unintentionally paraphrase or
summarise without proper citation
What are the consequences of plagiarism?
Consequences for plagiarism at MIT, even if it is
unintentional, can include:
• Marks taken off
• Mark of 0
• Course failure
• Suspension or expulsion from course
• Academic record noted

👉 It is your responsibility to avoid plagiarism.

Refer to the MIT Student Regulations and your Course

Outlines. Note that some MIT courses use Turnitin (via
Canvas) to check assignments for plagiarism.
How do I avoid plagiarism?
Always cite and reference your sources of information!
• In-text citation: Author’s surname and date or Name of Group
and date – signpost where your info was sourced
• Reference: The full details of your source of information, put in
a list at the end of your assignment
• Make use of MIT’s referencing resources and recommended
online information
• Ask your lecturer or subject librarian or learning advisor if you
are unsure

Key research tips to help you avoid plagiarism:

• Keep a record of your sources of information as you go! e.g.
create a reference for everything you read
• Make a note of the page number of every quote, image, chart
etc you may use in your assignment.
When do I need to cite?

Every time you make a statement.

Every time you use direct quotations. See Slide 5 for

examples both Block Quotation(40 words) and less than
40 quotations.

Every time you paraphrase someone else’s ideas.

Every time you summarise someone else’s ideas.

Every time you use statistics.

 References

Drewery, W., & Claiborne, L. B. (2014). Human development: Family, place

culture (2nd ed.). McGraw Hill Education.

Information Services, Manukau Institute of Technology Library. (2018,

November). Plagiarism. https://library.manukau.ac.nz/ld.php?

content_id=45767448

Manukau Institute of Technology. (2020). Manukau Institute of Technology:

Student Regulations.

https://www.manukau.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/448458/Student

-Regulations-2020.pdf