Lecture 4 Flashcards
Academic integrity benefits everyone
1) creates a fair and respectful environment
2) fosters genuine learning and prepares students for the future
3)Encourages originality and accurate knowledge creation
Plagiarism
occurs when a student submits or presents work of another person in such a manner to lead the reader to believe that it is the students original work; submission of work previously submitted for academic credit, without prior approval of the professor
different ways to plagiarise
a) quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing text without proper citation
b) paraphrasing too closely
c) downloading and/or purchasing articles, essays, presenting it as your own work
d) utilizing generative AI software to create content and presenting it as your own work
How is plagiarism detected
inconsistency in the style and voice
online tools
Ways of using external sources
quotation
Paraphrasing
summarizing
quotation
identical word-for-word use. of a short segment of your sources text
-quotation marks
-rarely used in scientific writing
why is quotation rarely used in science
data and conclusions are valued over specific word choices, making quotations unnecessary
they can be unclear
misleading
Paraphrasing
taking information from another source and communicating it in your own words, condensed version of the source, not common in science
Summarizing
highlight only the main ideas from your source, significantly condensed, in your own words. most common inn science
Compare quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing
you must acknowledge your source
quoting difference from the other two
quoting uses the source words, summarizing and paraphrasing use original words
difference between summarizing and paraphrasing
summarizing includes only the main ideas, and therefore fewer details
How to summarize or paraphrase
- understand the text
- note key points
- write the key points in your without looking at the original
- cite the original source
- check your version against the original source
Structure of summarizing or paraphrasing
must be expressed in completely new language in a different structure and always acknowledge sources
Common problems with making summaries
not including main points, borrowed phrases, redundancy, lack of brevity , forgetting to cite the source with an in-text citation
Unethical editing
changes the words but the student still submits the work as their own
ethical editing
editor says whats wrong with the sentence but doesn’t change the words
