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• Plagiarism


  • Steal and pass off (ideas or words of another) as one's own
  • Use (another's production) without crediting the source
  • Commit literary theft
  • Present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
• Plagiarism


  • Act of fraud, involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward
  • Using other peoples's words and ideas without clearly acknowledging the source of information
• Acts considered as plagiarism


  • Turning in someone else's work as your own
  • Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • Failing to put quotation in quotation marks
  • Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  • Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not
• Types of plagiarism


  • Complete - most severe form of plagiarism, researcher takes manuscript or study that someone else created and submits it under his/her name
  • Source-based - researcher references a source that is incorrect or does not exist
  • Data fabrication - making up of data and research findings
  • Data falsification - changing or omitting data to give a false impression
  • Direct or verbatim - author copies the text of another author, word for word, without the use of quotation marks or attribution
  • Self or auto-duplication - author reuses significant portions of his/her previously published work without attribution
  • Paraphrasing - involves the use of someone else's writing with some minor changes in the sentences and using it as one's own
  • Inaccurate authorship - an individual contributes to a manuscript but does not get credit for it, or an individual gets credit without contributing to the work
  • Mosaic - interlays someone else's phrases or text within its own research
  • Accidental - intended or unintended, there is no excuse for plagiarism and the consequences are often the same
• Common knowledge


  Facts that can be found in numerous places and are likely to widely known
• Interpretation


  Action of explaining the meaning of something
• Quotation


  Using someone's words directly, need to cite the source
• Paraphrase

  Using someone's ideas but rephrasing them in your own words, must still acknowledge and cite the source of information
• Information literacy skills


  • Find - the information literate student can find needed information effectively and efficiently
  • Evaluate - the information literate student can evaluate information and its sources critically
  • Apply - the information literate student can apply information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
  • Acknowledge - the information literate student can acknowledge sources of information and the ethical, legal, and socio-economic issues surrounding information
• a broad term that can cover data, knowledge arrived from study, experience or instructions, signals or symbols

  information
• factual information


  based on evidences and findings provided by reliable sources
• analytical information


  analysis or interpretation of facts by an individuals, usually an expert on the subject
• subjective information


  expert opinion, found in the editorial section of a newspaper in a web log entries of prolific writers
• objective information


  information is unbiased and does not lead you to judge the information in a certain way
• currency of information


  how up-to-date or how the recent the information is
• publication date of the source material

  the unusual basis for currency
• a combination of current and historical information especially in research, provides a more holistic picture
• information literacy


  ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate evaluate, effectively use and communicate information in its various formats
• information literacy


  provides the keys to academic achievement and lifelong learning