Linköping University
Reinventing research and education
Avoiding Unintentional Pitfalls of
Academic Honesty
(15 minutes)
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How does Academic Honesty affect your
writing?
Academic Honesty = an attitude toward
research and academic studies
Cite & refer: why?
• Giving credit to the original author
• Strengthen your arguments
• Increase your credibility
• Make it possible to verify information
• Avoid plagiarism
• The increasing frequency of massive hurricanes and storms are
due to the emission of greenhouse gases [*].
* add reference to a source or own empirical data!
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Plagiarism: What is it?
”Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work,
whether intentionally or unintentionally, as your own for
your own benefit.”
Carroll, J. (2002) A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education (Oxford Brookes
University)
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”Someone else´s work” ?
• Includes physical people, companies, the internet,
paper writing services, ghostwriters…
• Text, numbers, figures, tables…
• Directly copied, paraphrased, modified…
• Written, spoken…
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QUIZ
Is it plagiarism if you...
1. Copy and paste a paragraph of text from a web site without enclosing it in
quotation marks and referencing the source?
2. Use the ideas of another author without providing a reference, even if you write
them in your own words?
3. Claim work produced by another student as your own?
4. Copy a diagram or data table from a web site, providing a reference for the
source underneath?
5. Submit all or part of one essay for two separate assignments?
6. Copy words from a book into your own work, but place quotation marks around
them and provide a citation?
7. Include a fact or saying in your assignment which is generally known without
providing a reference?
8. Incorporate text from another source, changing one or two words and providing a
citation?
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http://www.bibl.liu.se/upphovsratt-och-plagiering
Plagiarism: How to avoid it?
-Cite & refer!
• in-text citations and bibliography
• Output styles
• Oxford, Harvard, Vancouver
• Consistency & correct!
Keep in mind…
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What thoughts are your own?
Save your references!
Strengthening an argument!
Better understanding– Better quality – Better grades!
If you have questions, just ask!
Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer!
- Resources at LiU!
Cite & refer!
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Linköping University Library. Citation styles. http://www.bibl.liu.se/citera-ochreferera/citeringsteknik?l=en
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Linköping University Library. RefWorks. http://www.bibl.liu.se/RefWorks.
Copyright and Plagiarism!
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Linköping University Library. Copyright and plagiarism.
http://www.bibl.liu.se/upphovsratt-och-plagiering?l=en
Academic English Support at Linköping University
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Linköping University http://www.liu.se/ikk/aes?l=en&sc=true
Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer!
• Carroll, Jude, Zetterling, Carl-Mikael, (2009), Guiding students
away from plagiarism, KTH Learning Lab,
http://people.kth.se/~ambe/KTH/Guidingstudents.pdf
• Blekinge Institute of Technology, The easy guide to referencing,
http://tuba.bth.se/stora/Writing/reference/
• Murray, Rowena, (2006), The handbook of academic writing : a
fresh approach, Open University Press
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Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer!
• Umeå University Library, Writing References - Oxford System
http://www.ub.umu.se/en/write/references/writing-referencesoxford
• Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia,
Harvard Style guide
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/studyhelp/harvard_style.html
• National Library of Medicine, USA, Vancouver system
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
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