Mary Aylmer Media Skills Plagiarism What is Plagiarism

Mary Aylmer Media Skills • • Plagiarism What is Plagiarism? Quoting/Paraphrasing/General Indebtedness Copying/allowing copying Penalties General knowledge References or Bibliography? How to reference Examples

Mary Aylmer Media Skills Acknowledgement • For these notes I have relied heavily on the content and organisation of two web sites – Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University. http: //www. city. ac. uk/optometry/html/plagiarism. html – Kingston University, Student guide http: //www. kingston. ac. uk/~kuweb/awards/acadmis-index. htm

Mary Aylmer Media Skills What is Plagiarism? • Passing off someone else’s ideas or words as if they were your own • Presenting the work of another as your own with proper acknowledgement • It applies equally to the work of other students as to published sources

Mary Aylmer Media Skills Quoting and Paraphrasing • Quoting – Allowed, you must • Put the quote in inverted commas • Give the source so that the reader could look it up • Paraphrasing – Putting someone else’s ideas into your own words – Should acknowledge the source in each paragraph • General Indebtedness – Careful here – If the ordering or argument reflect one source then this should be stated

Mary Aylmer Media Skills Copying/allowing copying • Copying work from other students = plagiarism • Allowing copying incurs similar penalties to plagiarism

Mary Aylmer Media Skills Penalties • From • 0% for assignment (resubmission with marks caped at minimum may be allowed) • To • Explusion

Mary Aylmer Media Skills General Knowledge • In general you should reference every fact except – When it is well known/generally accepted. So no need to reference facts such as: • 1939 – 1945 WW 2 • Newton discovered gravity – But, you should reference anything the reader is likely to query/not know. Eg • Superconductivity was first discovered by Professor Heike in 1911 [1] In the references section you would list [1] David Fishlock A guide to Superconductivity 1969 Mc. Donald & Co. p 1

Mary Aylmer Media Skills References or Bibliography? • References – Anything cited in your or used in the preparation of your report • Bibliography – all papers, web sites, newspapers, periodicals or books that you have read during the preparation of your report – sources that have been useful to you but that are not directly referred to or quoted from in your report

Mary Aylmer Media Skills References section • See City University’s guide • http: //www. city. ac. uk/library/research_supp ort/citation. html

Mary Aylmer Media Skills Examples • You quote the first law of thermodynamics – Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only change forms. • You read a book about the history of the Daily Mail for your British Media essay • You use part of a share ware routine for your java script coursework