Weeks 4-5︱Module 3︱The Ethics and Mechanics of Scholarship: Integrating, Interrogating, and Creating Knowledge

Weeks 4-5︱Module 3︱The Ethics and Mechanics of Scholarship: Integrating, Interrogating, and Creating Knowledge

Plagiarism

Patchwriting

Summarizing

Clone

Data Plagiarism

404 Plagiarisim

Contract cheating

Quoting in Academic Writing

Further enrich and supplement thesis and arguments they are trying to make; Digest and interpret relevant points in a way that a clear relevance to their own work will be established. (JM)

Relate information to your own work (Nigel)

Offer new point of view to the readers (Jao)

Establish the link between one's work and the work of others; Use varied but precise reporting verbs to accurately capture the original writer's intention. (Faith, GJ)

Indicates lack of comprehension and runs the risk of inadvertent plagiarism;

Indicative of not truly understanding the essence of the text; Increases the risk of plagiarism

Implies that the writer has an inadequate amount of understanding of the text; leads to inadvertent plagiarism; puts into question the credibility of its entirety.

It shows that you do not fully understand the text.

Hook the audience (Cera)

Provide evidence (Cera)

copying the work of another, word-for-word and claiming it as your own

Can be considered as theft (Xy)

act of deception;

leads to misinformation and causes your institution/group lose credibility;

use of other’s data without proper credits; theft (Ian)

undermines credibility and trustworthiness of the research process (Harvey)

engaging a third party to complete an assignment and presenting it as original;

results in overdependence of students on academic commissions;

shows that the Philippines sows a service-oriented economy; ‘stealing ideas’ from ‘poorer scientists’ (Matt)

Use a comprehensive summarizing process instead (understand the text, note-taking, distinguish main ideas and remove unnecessary details, paraphrase, double-check for clarity, original claims’ strength, and proper citation). (Mara)

Make their own thoughts inspired by original texts. (Alyann)

Reconstruct cited work in their own words and own manner of understanding without misconstruing the original author’s ideas. (Jei)

Summarize the text instead. (Aldrin)

Approach to Plagiarism

increase our awareness of the subtler forms of plagiarism (Joaquin)

We can target the root causes of plagiarism by knowing different aspects through which it is created and which it is composed (Eros)