Intellectual Freedom:
ALA Freedom to Read- http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/freedomreadstatement.cfm
Stacey Fisher's Freedom to Read- 09fisher_freedom_to_read.doc
School Library First Principles- First Principles.doc
Copyright:
Copyright information regarding multimedia materials that includes: Print resource, AV resources and Electronic resources -
http://www.howard.k12.md.us/met/media/copyright/cpyrght.htm
Plagiarism:
Howard County:
The Proper Use of Information
What is Plagiarism?
• Plagiarism is when a student takes someone else’s work and uses or claims it as their own.
Examples
• A student ‘borrows’ specific sentences from a textbook or any other resource and does not cite where they got it.
• copying and pasting from the Internet and posting somewhere else without proper citation
• putting your name on another person's essay or project
• copying exact wording from another person's text
• using another person's photo, diagram, sounds, or ideas without proper citation
• purchasing another person's text and using it as your own
• presenting ideas in the same format and order as your research source
How can teachers tell when you have plagiarized?
• if your writing is similar or exactly like another classmates
• if a project or paper doesn’t seem like a particular student’s work
• if a teacher finds direct quotes that have not been cited
• if a teacher checks it against one of the many online resources that provides projects or papers for money
• Consequences are determined on a case-by-case
basis.
• In middle school the minimum penalty for plagiarism is the student receiving an ‘E’ in the course.
• The maximum penalty for plagiarism is the student being expelled.
Ways to avoid plagiarism
Here’s a checklist:
• Did I make a list of all the books, articles, websites, and other sources I used?
• Did I keep track of which information came from which sources?
• When I used sentences just as they were in the source, did I always put quotation marks around them?
• When I summarized ideas in my own words, did I remember to give credit to the original source?
• Did I ask my teacher if I was unsure of how to list a source or whether to list it?
An Example of Plagiarism
The Original Material
Somewhere, many of us got the idea that simplicity in writing is a vice- that the long word is better than the short word, that the complex phrase is superior to the simple one. The misconception is that to write simply is to be simple minded. (Ballenger, Bruce. The Curious Researcher. New York, Allyn and Bacon, 1994. p.184.)
Type of Plagiarism
Direct Copying:
There is an idea out there that simplicity in writing is a vice-- that the long word is better than the short one, that the complex phrase is superior to the simple one. The misconception is that to write simply is to be simple minded.
Explanation:
Most of the first sentence and the entire second sentence are copied directly from Ballenger with no quotation marks and no citation.
Paraphrasing:
Many of us have the idea that simplicity in writing and speaking is a vice-that long words are better than short words, and that complex phrases are superior to simple ones. The idea is that writing simply shows means you are simple minded.
Explanation:
A few words are re-arranged and a few are substituted, but the idea and order of development is Ballenger's who is not cited.
Theft of an Idea:
Simplicity in writing is not a fault. The short word is better than the long word; the simple phrase is better than the more complex one. It is an error to think that one is simple minded because one writes simply.
Explanation:
The ideas are put in someone else's words, but they imply that they are the new author's rather than Ballenger's since
Ballenger is not cited.
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