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Ofqual - Plagiarism guides for students, parents and teachers. Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Plagiarism. Blog Archive » Let Word 2007 Cite your Sources for You. Nothing ruins the good time of writing a final paper faster than citing your sources. And which style do you have to use? There’s MLA, APA, Chicago, and some nonsense called Turabian which, frankly, sounds made-up. In olden times, you had to drop what you were doing to dig your style guide out of a cardboard box somewhere to figure out the correct format. Now, if you’ve got a copy of Word 2007, you can let Bill Gates do all that for you. The nice folks at The Microsoft Office Word Team’s Blog show you how to use Word’s References tab to create your bibliography and in-text citations.

Once you’ve entered your source information and selected which format you need, Word 2007 will create your in-text citations for you, then put ‘em all together for the grand finale, a flawless bibliography. Your your Word-enabled students will appreciate this time-saving trick. The Microsoft Office Word Team’s Blog via Lifehacker. Blog Archive » Top 5 citation applications. Back in my day we had to figure out arcane citation formats by poring through dusty old style manuals.

This was during that awkward window after people started putting good information on the internet, but before the style manuals told you how to cite web documents. Your students don’t know how lucky they are to have handy pieces of software to do this arduous work for them. Below is Instructify’s list of the five best bibliography and citation applications out there.

Pass these on to your students and spare them the agony of building bibliographies the hard way. 5. Word 2007: Number five on our list really isn’t an application at all, as it’s part of Microsoft Word 2007. While not everybody has a copy of Word 2007, the folks that do don’t even have to leave their word processor to generate a professional-looking bibliography. 4. 3. 2. 1. Are you an ardent user of one of these? Photo credit: papertrix on Flickr. BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, T. Plagiarism. Ibib Home Page. Choose a Referencing Style (Liberation: Referencing) University of Birmingham - skills4uni. References and citations explained. Harvard System of Referencing Guide. Any in-text reference should include the authorship and the year of the work. Depending on the nature of the sentence/paragraph that is being written, references to sources may be cited in the text as described below: Additional support on how to introduce such references is available from Student Support in their guide.

When making reference to an author's whole work in your text, it is sufficient to give the name followed by the year of publication of their work: When writing for a professional publication, it is good practice to make reference to other relevant published work. This view has been supported by Cormack (1994). However, where you are mentioning a particular part of the work, and making direct or indirect reference to this, a page reference should be included: Cormack (1994, pp.32-33) states that "when writing for a professional readership, writers invariably make reference to already published works". For more examples, see page numbers section. Directly using an and or Example: Download Harvard Referencing Widget 1.0 for Mac - Creates the re. Referencing@Portsmouth. RLO: Referencing your work using Harvard: Feedback. Study Skills - How to Study. Son of Citation Machine.

Plagiarism - the definitive guide to prevention -Plagiarized.com. Plagiarism Theme Page. Plagiarism Theme Page This "Theme Page" has links to information about Plagiarism. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) and reference materials to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our disclaimer. [An] Antidote to Plagiarism A lesson and activity that will show grade 5-10 students how to write a research paper without copying. Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers The author offers strategies that teachers can adopt to combat plagiarism including specific suggestions for becoming more aware, prevention, and detection. Avoiding Plagiarism Brought to you by Purdue University Online Writing Lab, this handout provides a succinct description of how students can avoid plagiarism. Articles and News Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism LM_Net FAQ On Plagiarism.

Plagiarism. Sharon Stoerger MLS, MBA sstoer@yahoo.com Articles ~~ Copyright & Intellectual Freedom ~~ For Instructors ~~ For Students Plagiarism Case Studies ~~ Plagiarism Detection Tools ~~ Term Paper Sites--Examples Additional Plagiarism Resources ~~ Additional Ethics Resources Articles Actions Do Speak Louder than Words: Deterring Plagiarism with the Use of Plagiarism- Detection Software In the spring semester of 2000, Bear Braumoeller, an assistant professor of government at Harvard University and Brian Gaines, an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) began their plagiarism study involving UIUC students taking Political Science 100: Introduction to Political Science.

This report details Braumoeller and Gaines' experience with the Essay Verification Engine, EVE, which they used to detect instances of plagiarism among the 180 students studied. Are More People Cheating? James M. Check for Plagiarism On the Web For Free - PlagiarismChecker.com. Plagiarism. What is Plagiarism and Why is it Important? In college courses, we are continually engaged with other people’s ideas: we read them in texts, hear them in lecture, discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our own writing. As a result, it is very important that we give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

How Can Students Avoid Plagiarism? To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use another person’s idea, opinion, or theory; any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge; quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words. These guidelines are taken from the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct. How to Recognize Unacceptable and Acceptable Paraphrases Here’s an UNACCEPTABLE paraphrase that is plagiarism: What makes this passage plagiarism? 1. 2. Avoiding Plagiarism - The OWL at Purdue. Shows ~ Xpress Radio, Award Winning Student Radio For Cardiff. 10 Steps to Writing an Essay -- Step 1c: Researching in the Libr. Step 1c: Researching in the Library A common misconception among students is that the library is full of old, out-of-date, musty books -- probably none from this century -- and therefore any books found there would be so out of step with the current discussion on the topic that the books, and any effort to retrieve them, would be utterly useless.

Fortunately, all libraries have acquisitions departments with specialists from different fields of scholarship who constantly order up-to-date books on the contemporary issues in almost all fields. As a result, most libraries have books on all issues at least within the last ten years or so. So unless you're writing about something totally new, chances are a book has been written on it, and most likely that book is waiting for you in the library. Retrieving books saves energy The Internet is full of everything from porno to CIA reports, and it's all jumbled together like paint splattered on a wall. Learn to skim books Library as sanctuary. Big6 Resources. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need. The Information Literacy Game. Players take turns moving around the board, answering questions. There are four categories, and two questions must be answered correctly from each category in order to win. The Categories are: Category 1 - Choose Your Resource Category 2 - Searching/Using Databases Category 3 - Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism Category 4 - Library Wild Card As you answer a question correctly from each category, you will receive a light corresponding to the color of the category.

On the Home Stretch, you must answer a question from each category correctly in order to advance a space. There are 3 special squares you can land on: Light Bulb: This space will ask you to compare two different websites, or evaluate one website for different kinds of information. Single Person Play Single play is much like the group game, with two additions. Keyboard Commands D - Roll the die to start the next player's turnH - Opens/closes the Help WindowS - Toggles game sounds on or off1-4 - Select the correct answer to questions. RGU: Research: Info Mgmt - Information Literacy. Note card lesson -- from Manhasset Public Schools. The Ethical Researcher: Big Ideas of Notemaking and Notetaking. There are 4 phases of notemaking and notetaking. By mapping these phases to the information literacy process (Building Blocks of Research), we teach the intellectual, creative and ethical use of information school-wide and assure that all students can find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create and contribute for personal, social or global purposes.

Phase 1: Prepare for notetaking The first phase maps to the early stages of engaging and defining the information literacy process. What are students doing? What big ideas should I teach? Examples To evoke prior knowledge and investment: "What do you know? Phase 2: Organize for notetaking The second phase occurs during the planning and locating stages of the information literacy process. What are students doing? What big ideas should I teach? To gather, organize and refine search terms: Cluster and refine To preassess the value of sources: "RATE No Wasted Work! " Phase 3: Design and use notes as thinking tools. A Research Guide for Students. Using Google Search Operators. You can use most of the options we discussed in Google’s Advanced Search Form in a regular search box query. If you’re a frequent searcher or a “power searcher,” this can save time because you don’t need to open the Advanced Search page and fill in various boxes; instead, you can enter the refined query in almost any Google search box.

You’ll use advanced operators, query words that have special meaning to Google. Since the advanced operators are convenient for searching, Google Guide calls them search operators. Note: We recommend that you skip ahead to the Part Understanding Results unless you’re an experienced Google user or you want to know how to use Google’s advanced operators. 1. Here are three places you can find examples of search operators. Visit the Google Guide Advanced Operator Quick Reference and look for special operators of the form operator:value.Fill in Google’s Advanced Search form.

Read through the descriptions below and try the examples. 2. 4. 4.1. 4.2. Vivísimo, Inc - Enterprise Search, Federated Search and Clusteri.