citing your sources - avoiding plagiarism

Citing your sources – avoiding plagiarism

Henry LangsethAgder University library, 2009

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That’s what research is all about

That’s what research is all about

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Use others findings and ideas to support your arguments!There is a link between good marks and attributing ideas and

referencing. (Caroll, 2007)

Use others findings and ideas to support your arguments!There is a link between good marks and attributing ideas and

referencing. (Caroll, 2007)

What do you mean plagiarism?!

Source:"plagiarism n." The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition. Ed. Erin McKean. Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Agder University. 7 October 2009 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t183.e59311>

Plagiarism-quiz

• Copying a paragraph word by word from a source without any acknowledgement. Plagiarism?

Plagiarism-quiz

• Copying a paragraph from a source in another language, translating and inserting it into the text. Full reference in bibliography. Plagiarism?

Plagiarism-quiz

• Short summary of article integrated in section with source cited in text and list of references.

Plagiarism-quiz

• You hand in the same assignment in two different classes, only with minor adjustments. Plagiarism?

Cite your sources – get it right

• Reference list– Complete overview of all sources cited– Choose one style for your references– Use the same style troughout the list– Normally listed right after conclusion

Cite it right – organising your references

Example: Book with one author

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the book in italics (Edition – if available). Place of publication: Publisher.

Fitzgerald, F. S. (1926). The Great Gatsby: Chatto & Windus: London.

-> Always find the correct format for your source

So, reference list..bibliography..whatever – that’s it?!

Part 2: Citing sources

• We need a reference in the text that makes the link to the endnote/footnote

• E.g. Blablablablabla (Fitzgerald, 1926). Blablabla

Fitzgerald, F. S. (1926). The Great Gatsby: Chatto & Windus: London.

NEVER too many sources

Part 3: Quoting sources

• Direct quote• Indirect quotation• Summary

Students do not always see the importance of citing all sources in written work. ”Serious academic literature authors use sources, and they cite the sources they use" (Spangen, 2007, p. 9). This is just as important when writing a semester assignment as when writing a scientific dissertation.

Learn more

uia.no/citingsources

Every subject listed in Classfronter have a link to the Citing sources-webpage

Every subject listed in Classfronter have a link to the Citing sources-webpage

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

From the poem Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson