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Plagiarism and Copyright Information
Student Network and Internet Acceptable Use and Safety Policy and Guidelines
The dictionary defines plagiarism as "taking ideas or writings from another person and offering them as your own." The student, who leads readers to believe that what they are reading is the student's original work, when it is not, is guilty of plagiarism. Credit should always be given to the person who created the words or idea.
Plagiarism has become increasingly easy to commit with the increased access to information and copy and paste techniques available when using computers. Examples of electronic plagiarism include:
- Buying a paper from a website and turning it in as their own work
- Turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website and turning it in as their own work
- Printing a paper or article from an electronic source and turning it in as their own work
- Copying information from another source and turning it in as their own work without acknowledging the source
- Copying and pasting material from another source, or sources, into a new document without identifying the material and acknowledging the source(s)
- Paraphrasing material from another source without acknowledging the source
To avoid plagiarism students must always acknowledge the source when using:
- Another person's ideas, opinions or words
- A direct quote of another person's actual words, spoken or written
- A paraphrase of another person's actual words, spoken or written
- Any facts, statistics or graphics that are not common knowledge
Copyright
Gary Becker, manager of media productions for Seminole County Public Schools in Sanford, Fla., is a national copyright law consultant and the author of Copyright: A Guide to Information and Resources, second edition, and other reference works on the subject. Please go to the link below to read his article for information on copyright.
http://www.electronic-school.com/2000/06/0600f2.html
Duval County Public Schools
Instructional Technology Department
(904) 348-7116
Fax (904) 348-5710
School Mail: #3002B
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