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I'm doing two openen learning coarses by open learning as a mature student. I've just been sent a leaflet of Plagiarism and it has really freaked me out. When I come to do my exams, and also in the assessments I have returned, I have used quoted given in my coarse material books and I have not referenced these. Also, in my exams, I will be quoting quotes from Margaret Thatcher and from Winston Churchill. Do I have to state where I got these quotes from? What if I got these quotes from the coarse workbook, do I quote this? I might be over-reacting, but I don't want to be disqualified???
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Posted 04 March 2007 - 10:19 PM
This is a really good question, Tina.
As I see it:
First of all, you are allowed to quote Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher as you want as part of your answer. I presume you will be putting 'Winton Churchill said...'
Secondly, you are allowed to get facts, ideas, information, data from wherever you like and use them however you like, as long as you present them in your own words. This isn't to say that very often you won't mention the source of your idea (e.g. As Terraine pointed out, Haig didn't go to see him men, not because h didn;t care, but because his officers saw that it upset him too much and stopped him going.) Nevertheless, if the idea is in your own words, you will be OK against the charge of plagiarism. Most ideas you read have been pinched from somewhere!
Thirdly, you are allowed to quote other scholars at will (though I advise you to keep the quotes down to short relevant gobbets) as long as you provenance the quote - either say e.g. 'as John D Clare said (Modern World History, 2001) or put the quote and then add in brackets after it (John D Clare, Modern World History, 2001).
Your course will have a recommended way of doing this, however, and it would be best find out - when I was doing one course thy used the so-called 'Harvard' system of referencing.
Plagiarism is where you insert into your essay chunks of text directly taken from other scholars' books, essays or articles and attempt to pass them off as your own work.
As I see it:
First of all, you are allowed to quote Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher as you want as part of your answer. I presume you will be putting 'Winton Churchill said...'
Secondly, you are allowed to get facts, ideas, information, data from wherever you like and use them however you like, as long as you present them in your own words. This isn't to say that very often you won't mention the source of your idea (e.g. As Terraine pointed out, Haig didn't go to see him men, not because h didn;t care, but because his officers saw that it upset him too much and stopped him going.) Nevertheless, if the idea is in your own words, you will be OK against the charge of plagiarism. Most ideas you read have been pinched from somewhere!
Thirdly, you are allowed to quote other scholars at will (though I advise you to keep the quotes down to short relevant gobbets) as long as you provenance the quote - either say e.g. 'as John D Clare said (Modern World History, 2001) or put the quote and then add in brackets after it (John D Clare, Modern World History, 2001).
Your course will have a recommended way of doing this, however, and it would be best find out - when I was doing one course thy used the so-called 'Harvard' system of referencing.
Plagiarism is where you insert into your essay chunks of text directly taken from other scholars' books, essays or articles and attempt to pass them off as your own work.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 02:39 PM
Arent you meant to include it in your bibliograpphy at the end of your work eg
Bibliography
Anglia Battlefield Tours (2005) The Ypres Salient and The Somme Battlefield Tour Information Booklet
Gardener, B. (1876) Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 Methuen Paperback, London.
www.diggerhistory.info http://www.diggerhis...td/trenches.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2002357
www.firstworldwar.com http://www.firstworl...s/armistice.htm
www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/wom...oyment_01.shtml
www.harboro.ndirect.co.uk www.harboro.ndirect.co.uk/images/ypres15d.JPG
[ Extract from my bibliography for my year 9 World War 1 Project]
Bibliography
Anglia Battlefield Tours (2005) The Ypres Salient and The Somme Battlefield Tour Information Booklet
Gardener, B. (1876) Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 Methuen Paperback, London.
www.diggerhistory.info http://www.diggerhis...td/trenches.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2002357
www.firstworldwar.com http://www.firstworl...s/armistice.htm
www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/wom...oyment_01.shtml
www.harboro.ndirect.co.uk www.harboro.ndirect.co.uk/images/ypres15d.JPG
[ Extract from my bibliography for my year 9 World War 1 Project]
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