My Journal

Plagiarism

Objective

• Full Disclosure Policy
• why proper attribution is important
• how to avoid plagiarism
• proper citation formats

Duration

Expected: 20 mins Actual:

Procedure

Notes

• can search almost anywhere for information as long as you attribute knowledge

• whatever it is, if it's not your own idea, the source must be referenced

• contextualize observations “inspired by…”, “based on…”, “according to …”, “following …”, “see also …”, etc.

• On Wiki pages, use the text tag to organize your citations.

• In R code, put your citations directly into the code in a comment.

• URL of image is not adequate reference, Author and context needed

• All links in references must be to the original source, not to e.g. a blog post about the source.

• Code that is copied from e.g. stack overflow or similar must be referenced with a link to the post AND the name of the author.

• APA citation format

• never adjust output, this is a falsification of results

When to reference

• Example code from an R package vignette that you adapt and reuse must be referenced.
• Code taken from a different course, this course, translated from diff. language must be referenced
• acknowledge contribution if jointly developed with a classmate
• Code copied from a classmate’s work on the Student Wiki must be referenced.
• open source code must be referenced
• Code that is in the public domain must be referenced (some authors put their code into the public domain, and state that you are free to use it without any copyright restrictions and without need for acknowledgment, but you are not the author so you need to state authorship

Resources

1. Smart Strategies (OSAI)
2. How Not to Plagiarize (UofT Writing Advice)
3. Quoting (UofT Writing Advice) - when to quote, when to paraphrase, when to summarize
4. Paraphrasing and Summarizing (UofT Writing Advice) - paraphrasing and summarizing
5. Standard Documentation formats (UofT Writing Advice) - citing electronic sources

Task

Material from a Journal Article (APA)

• In-text: ...(Author, Date) or ...[according to] Author (Date) References (at bottom of document):
• Premack, D. (2007). Human and animal cognition: Continuity and discontinuity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 194, 13861-13867. doi:10.1073/pnas.0706147104

Code from StackOverflow (in comments of my code)

• (1) Sills A. Are blue stragglers still in the running? [online posting] 13 Nov. 2011.
• NEEDS URL??

From another student's wiki

• Procter, M. (n.d.) Effective admissions letters. Retrieved July 11, 2012 from http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/admission-letters.

Results

Conclusion

• when in doubt asks questions
• overall message: if the idea is not originally mine in the moment that I am writing it, I must reference it

Outlook (for next tasks)