KS3+Citation+&+Plagiarism+webpage

=Plagiarism= Plagiarism is when you copy another persons words or ideas and pretend they are yours. It can be deliberate or accidental, it can be cut & paste from the web or copying from a friend. **Here's the trick:** you can copy another person's work, as long as you cite where you borrowed it from. That's called Citation & Bibliography, but first about plagiarism.

Deliberately copying someone else's work on purpose is cheating, will lose you marks, and it's embarrassing - unless of course you're Lady Gaga:
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However, **accidental plagiarism** is a problem, because it can still lose you marks even though you don't know you're doing it. That's why we bought some software to help protect you from it.

=Turnitin= This is our awesome anti-plagiarism software. As we discussed previously, most plagiarism is accidental. That's why we purchased this software for you, so you can check your own work for mistakes. it's the same software that the IB & IGCSE use, so now you don't have to freak out about accidental plagiarism.

@http://www.turnitin.com/static/index.php 3874536 (this is my class ID so you can experiment) bisvietnam1
 * Go to the website and join using your school e-mail:**
 * After you've joined it'll ask you for a class ID:**
 * And a password:**

Please experiment and upload a document so you can see how it checks your work & produces a plagiarism report for you. This is my practice class; ask your teachers to open accounts for all your classes, then you can scan all your work and know you're in the safe zone. Here is the student manual, or you can ask Mr Jacques for help how to use it:
 * You may submit more than once, but when you re-submit you must wait 24hrs for a new report.**

=Citation & Bibliography= A form of notation where we show the sources of ideas and data that we’ve borrowed - if we clearly show where we got it, then **it's not plagiarism.** The minimum is must contain is: **Author, Date, Title** But some citations have more, e.g. web citations include the url and the date you visited.
 * What is it?**

Everything that’s not yours: books, Web-pages, Magazines, E-mail, TV, Film, Images, Interviews, etc.
 * What needs citing?**

A citation has 2 parts: First, a short **in-text citation**, and then the full source details in the **bibliography**. Follow these tutorials and you’ll learn how.
 * How do I do it?**

First, do the //You Quote It, You Note It// tutorial from Acadia University (10 minutes)
Go to this website and select the tutorial 'You Quote it You Note it'
 * @http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/**

Second, practice your skills with these activities from University of Sydney (10 minutes)

 * @http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/elearning/learn/referencing/activities/index.php**

**Third, learn how to use the citation tools in MS Word**
Here's a quick 4 minute video guide to using the MS Word tools: http://www.ehow.com/video_5538140_create-bibliography-microsoft-word.html And here's a quick text guide with screen shots: http://library.nmu.edu/guides/userguides/references2007.htm Apple users go here: []
 * This is not a complete suite but it will do most of the basics for you, if you have any tricky ones then consult EasyBib or Mr Jacques**

a) Find a research book in the library; quote a sentence from it and make an in-text citation for your quote. Then make an MLA bibliographic entry for it. Click the **References** tab, change **Style** to MLA Sixth Edition, then click **Insert Citation** and **Add New Source**, then fill in the form. Easy. b) Now for something more difficult - make an MLA bibliographic entry for this website: @http://willstegerfoundation.org/climate-change-basics/solutions-renewable Same as above but change the **Type of Source** on the form.
 * Practice**

**Final step, download this MLA citation guide**
Download it to a usb & keep it. This easy guide has lots of examples of different citation types, so you can always check if your citations are correct. If you have more questions then go and find Mr. Jacques.