{"id":167,"date":"2023-05-11T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/chapter\/cornell-site-on-avoiding-plagiarism\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T00:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:01:05","slug":"cornell-site-on-avoiding-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/chapter\/cornell-site-on-avoiding-plagiarism\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: Integrating Sources","rendered":"Putting It Together: Integrating Sources"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"post-530\" class=\"standard post-530 chapter type-chapter status-publish hentry\">\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Academic integrity<\/strong>\u00a0means taking full responsibility for your work, acknowledging your own efforts, and acknowledging the contributions of others\u2019 efforts.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Plagiarism<\/strong>\u00a0is using someone else\u2019s work or ideas and passing them off as your own.\u00a0 Adopting good research ethics and practices can help you avoid plagiarism and become a better student.\u00a0 Most unintentional plagiarism can be prevented by better time management and by managing your sources correctly.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Quoting<\/strong>\u00a0text means that you copy the source\u2019s\u00a0<strong>exact words<\/strong>\u00a0and mark them off with quotation marks or in a block quote.\u00a0 Remember to quote purposefully, quote accurately, block quote sparingly, don\u2019t over quote, use brackets\/ellipses to indicate edits, and cite sources.\u00a0 Quotations need to be introduced and explained with signal phrases, you should integrate shorter quotes within your paraphrase\/summary, and make sure to interpret evidence for readers.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Paraphrasing<\/strong>\u00a0or \u201cindirect quotation\u201d is putting source text\u00a0<strong>in your own words<\/strong>\u00a0and altering the sentence structure to avoid using the quotation marks required in direct quotation. Keep a consistent voice, break down a concept, avoid patchwriting, don\u2019t change the content for your own spin, and add citations.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Summarizing<\/strong>\u00a0text is when you represent the source\u2019s\u00a0<strong>main ideas<\/strong>\u00a0in your own words without quotation marks. The procedure for summarizing is much like that of paraphrasing except that it involves the extra step of pulling out highlights from the source.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>There are many\u00a0<strong>reasons to cite material<\/strong>\u00a0from outside sources:\u00a0 to avoid plagiarism and maintain academic integrity, to acknowledge the work of others, to provide credibility to your work and place your work in context, and to help your future researching self and other researchers easily locate sources<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Some challenges that cause students to plagiarize include running out of time, having to use different styles, not really understanding the material they\u2019re using, and shifting cultural expectations of citation.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Most\u00a0<strong>citations require two parts<\/strong>: the\u00a0<strong>full bibliographic citation<\/strong>\u00a0on the References\/Works Cited page of the final product and an indication\u00a0<strong>within the text<\/strong>\u00a0(usually author and publication date and\/or page number).<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The three most commonly used citation styles in higher education include\u00a0<strong>Modern Language Association (MLA) Style<\/strong>\u00a0(used in literature, arts, humanities, and some other disciplines),\u00a0<strong>Chicago Manual of Style<\/strong>\u00a0or Turabian (used most often in history, art, and visual studies), and\u00a0<strong>American Psychological Association (APA) Style<\/strong>\u00a0(used in social sciences such as anthropology, business, psychology, sociology, and political science).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div id=\"post-530\" class=\"standard post-530 chapter type-chapter status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Academic integrity<\/strong>\u00a0means taking full responsibility for your work, acknowledging your own efforts, and acknowledging the contributions of others\u2019 efforts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plagiarism<\/strong>\u00a0is using someone else\u2019s work or ideas and passing them off as your own.\u00a0 Adopting good research ethics and practices can help you avoid plagiarism and become a better student.\u00a0 Most unintentional plagiarism can be prevented by better time management and by managing your sources correctly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quoting<\/strong>\u00a0text means that you copy the source\u2019s\u00a0<strong>exact words<\/strong>\u00a0and mark them off with quotation marks or in a block quote.\u00a0 Remember to quote purposefully, quote accurately, block quote sparingly, don\u2019t over quote, use brackets\/ellipses to indicate edits, and cite sources.\u00a0 Quotations need to be introduced and explained with signal phrases, you should integrate shorter quotes within your paraphrase\/summary, and make sure to interpret evidence for readers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paraphrasing<\/strong>\u00a0or \u201cindirect quotation\u201d is putting source text\u00a0<strong>in your own words<\/strong>\u00a0and altering the sentence structure to avoid using the quotation marks required in direct quotation. Keep a consistent voice, break down a concept, avoid patchwriting, don\u2019t change the content for your own spin, and add citations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summarizing<\/strong>\u00a0text is when you represent the source\u2019s\u00a0<strong>main ideas<\/strong>\u00a0in your own words without quotation marks. The procedure for summarizing is much like that of paraphrasing except that it involves the extra step of pulling out highlights from the source.<\/li>\n<li>There are many\u00a0<strong>reasons to cite material<\/strong>\u00a0from outside sources:\u00a0 to avoid plagiarism and maintain academic integrity, to acknowledge the work of others, to provide credibility to your work and place your work in context, and to help your future researching self and other researchers easily locate sources<\/li>\n<li>Some challenges that cause students to plagiarize include running out of time, having to use different styles, not really understanding the material they\u2019re using, and shifting cultural expectations of citation.<\/li>\n<li>Most\u00a0<strong>citations require two parts<\/strong>: the\u00a0<strong>full bibliographic citation<\/strong>\u00a0on the References\/Works Cited page of the final product and an indication\u00a0<strong>within the text<\/strong>\u00a0(usually author and publication date and\/or page number).<\/li>\n<li>The three most commonly used citation styles in higher education include\u00a0<strong>Modern Language Association (MLA) Style<\/strong>\u00a0(used in literature, arts, humanities, and some other disciplines),\u00a0<strong>Chicago Manual of Style<\/strong>\u00a0or Turabian (used most often in history, art, and visual studies), and\u00a0<strong>American Psychological Association (APA) Style<\/strong>\u00a0(used in social sciences such as anthropology, business, psychology, sociology, and political science).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-167\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Cornell Site on Avoiding Plagiarism. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Cornell University. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Cornell University. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu\/tutorial\/index.cfm\">http:\/\/plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu\/tutorial\/index.cfm<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Technical Writing. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":395986,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Cornell Site on Avoiding Plagiarism\",\"author\":\"Cornell University\",\"organization\":\"Cornell University\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu\/tutorial\/index.cfm\",\"project\":\"Technical Writing\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-167","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":156,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/167\/revisions\/501"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/156"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/167\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}