PLAGIARISM: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Listen to an example NPR
Oradell Acceptable Use Policy - 6142.10 Plagiarism is presenting another's ideas / words as one's own.
EXAMPLE 1
2017 - Jill Bialosky - Poet
Compare the following passages
2. Then Ms. Bialosky wrote:
“Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. He came from a family of lighthouse engineers. During his boyhood he was prone to illness and spent many of his childhood winters in bed, entertained by reading Shakespeare and The Arabian Nights.”
2017 - Jill Bialosky - Poet
Compare the following passages
- The Academy of America Poets writes:
2. Then Ms. Bialosky wrote:
“Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. He came from a family of lighthouse engineers. During his boyhood he was prone to illness and spent many of his childhood winters in bed, entertained by reading Shakespeare and The Arabian Nights.”
EXAMPLE 2
Kaavya Viswanathan's first novel: Overview
How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life
A. COMPARE THE PASSAGES:
Kaavya Viswanathan's first novel: Overview
How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life
A. COMPARE THE PASSAGES:
- From How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life by Kaavya Viswanathan: "Moneypenny was the brainy female character. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty."
- From Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty: "Sabrina was the brainy Angel. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.
B. COMPARE THE PASSAGES:
Kaavya Viswanathan said she had read McCafferty's books, but called herself the victim of a photographic memory. "Somewhere in her mind, she crossed an invisible line with this material and didn't realize that the words so easy and available to her were not her own," says her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
When asked about her influences in an interview given to The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey (before any allegations of plagiarism had surfaced), Viswanathan responded that "nothing I read gave me the inspiration" to write the novel.[10][11][12] wikipedia.org
McCafferty looked at Opal Mehta and later said that reading Viswanathan's book was like "recognizing your own child's face. My own words were just leaping out at me page after page after page."[26] wikipedia.org
- Opal Mehta page 14: "Priscilla was my age and lived two blocks away. For the first fifteen years of my life, those were the only qualifications I needed in a best friend. We had bonded over our mutual fascination with the abacus in a playgroup for gifted kids. But that was before freshman year, when Priscilla's glasses came off, and the first in a long string of boyfriends got on."
- Sloppy First, page 7: "Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget's braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh grade Honors classes."
Kaavya Viswanathan said she had read McCafferty's books, but called herself the victim of a photographic memory. "Somewhere in her mind, she crossed an invisible line with this material and didn't realize that the words so easy and available to her were not her own," says her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
When asked about her influences in an interview given to The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey (before any allegations of plagiarism had surfaced), Viswanathan responded that "nothing I read gave me the inspiration" to write the novel.[10][11][12] wikipedia.org
McCafferty looked at Opal Mehta and later said that reading Viswanathan's book was like "recognizing your own child's face. My own words were just leaping out at me page after page after page."[26] wikipedia.org
EXAMPLE 3 |
IS IT OKAY FOR WRITERS TO BORROW FROM EACH OTHER?
LAWSUITS AGAINST J.K. ROWLING: |
EXAMPLE 5 |
Compare the journalists, did each get the appropriate punishment? Fareed Zakaria - CNN ONLINE EDITOR Jayson Blair New York Times Editor The Lies * The Case * CNN * Response 10 years later * Lessons Learned
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EXAMPLE 6 - Themes & Music Lyrics
Do you think this is plagiarism?
1. Theme: Bad guys attacking good guys? James Cameron * Director of the movie Avatar
2. Music & Lyrics - Justin Bieber & Usher
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
- How to find Plagiarism
- Top 10 Plagiarists
- Real Wold Examples
- 10 Examples of Plagiarism - video
- Turnitin video
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- http://www.meganmccafferty.com/tags/sloppy-firsts/
- http://www.film-travel.com/2012/08/film-friday-platform-9-34-at-london-kings-cross/
- https://bellsiebooks.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/top-ten-tuesday-uk-in-ya-101/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair