plagiarism

Introduces readers to the media literacy skills needed to understand plagiarism. Includes a hands-on activity related to media literacy.

Understand what plagiarism is and why it is wrong. While plagiarism has been a problem since the invention of the printing press, today the Internet had made copying and cheating easier than ever. Author Barbara Francis describes ways that students can avoid plagiarism in their own work and ways that teachers and communities can combat it.

An approachable guide to help master and apply the writing, speaking, and listening skills involved in conducting research projects, composing arguments, and conveying results.

This book explores ways to avoid plagiarism when doing research and writing reports and other written materials.

Analyzes the subject of plagiarism and how it affected the reputations of artists and authors beginning in the seventeenth century including those such as Samuel Coleridge, Victorian novelist Charles Reade, as well as cases involving publishing, academia, Hollywood, and the Internet.

"This work examines and critiques the history, use, and abuse of various literary documentation systems. All forms of documentation used in the Western world--from ancient Biblical commentaries, to the medieval gloss, to the current systems used by researchers in the humanities and sciences--are studied"--Provided by publisher.

Until now Uncle Dan has only used classic books in his program, so being commissioned to turn a new manuscript into a virtual reality world sounds exciting--but while they are testing the program, Isabelle realizes that the book is plagiarized from The purloined letter, and it is up to Carter to teach the author a lesson.

The Flirt offices are filled with talented new interns, including former child star Georgia Cooper and budding literary genius Elizabeth Cheekwood, but Elizabeth resorts to plagiarism to keep up with her demanding schedule and one of her fellow interns turns her in.

A guide to helping students understand what plagarism is and how to avoid it, including strategies for using search engines and documentating their results, summarizing and paraphrasing, learning MLA and APA citation, and understanding what common knowledge is and is not.

Marion and the other students in Mr. Owen's class learn a valuable lesson about plagiarism when their teacher reads several identical student reports all copied from the same Internet source.