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Standing on theShoulders of Others

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

--Ecclesiastes 1:9

What does Google mean?

Why use other peoples’ works

Acknowledgement Bring authority Show your own awareness

What about Copyright?

How to use others’ works

Fair Use— allows you to use a small

portion of a copyrighted work without asking permission.

Fair use applies when you want to use part of a work for:

Criticism and comment (in a review of the work)

News reporting Research and scholarly

purposes Nonprofit educational use

(in a classroom) Parody

Appropriate use maintains

Fairness Integrity

How to use others’ works

Good note-taking Good citation

Note-taking

OWL at Purdue

What to Cite Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song,

TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium

Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing

When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase

When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, or other visual materials

When you reuse or repost any electronically-available media, including images, audio, video, or other media

“Avoiding Plagiarism: Is it Plagiearism Yet?” The OWL and Purdue. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

Let’s Try This

Your own description of your own summer vacation?

A video your best friend uploaded to YouTube and told you to use?

A line from a Shakepeare play? Background music you bought

through iTunes and put into your powerpoint presentation?

Parts of a Citation(what to keep track of)

Author (individual or organization)

Title (article, chapter, video, song, Web site)

Where it’s published (journal, book, URL)

Publisher and Place of publication (for books)

Edition number (books) or volume number (journals)

Specific page numbers

Date of publication Date of access (for

online information)

Web sites Books

AdsArticles

Working Knowledge

Bibliography

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