Rubric

Rubric

Plagiarism and Crediting

It's simple:
All material in your paper is 100% your own writing
or
it is 100% from your source,
and it is clear which is which. 

Plagiarism

  • Any cut & paste without both quotation marks and parenthetical credit is plagiarism. 

  • Any cut & paste where the writer attempts to rewrite or change wording is plagiarism. 


Unless the writer includes a credit in parentheses, it is also plagiarism to include in your paper any specific data that was collected or produced by someone else.  Examples include the following: 
  • Poll data,
  • Lab results,
  • Expert opinions,
  • Statistics,
  • Experimental evidence, or
  • Investigation results. 

Fair Use
(Not Plagiarism)

  • Cut & paste may be used inside quotation marks with a credit in parentheses at the end.

  • Use of specific data produced by others may be used with a credit in parentheses at the end.

  • Completely original summary of someone else's writing may be used.  Completely original means that the paper does not use word choices of the original nor does it follow sentence structure of the original. 

For the crediting quiz, be sure to answer the following questions:
 

  • How are the two types of titles written?  Answer

  • What is the difference between crediting in the body of the paper, and crediting in the works cited section?

  • When does a research writer need to give credit in the body?

  • When giving credit in the body, what word should the researcher put inside the parentheses?

  • Where does the period go when giving credit in the body?

  • In what order does the researcher arrange the works on the works cited page?

Study the PowerPoint.  Just watching it once will probably not do it.