节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-03-23
难易度:High
关键字:fraud, unrepentant, cite, foolproof, document, revoke
Today we are covering a very important topic - plagiarism.
And plagiarism is when you present another person's ideas or material as your
own.
This is fraud.
And I hope that you don't stay up all night bringing the midnight oil working on
your research papers only to discover that there is something that has been
plagiarized in your paper.
Well, in the next part of our article, we will find different ways that you can
try to catch this before it becomes a problem.
(Music).
Plagiarism: A Common Crime.
However, you can avoid all of these consequences by citing your sources in the
correct format and by confirming you did your work through an online plagiarism
checking service.
For example, PlagTracker allows you to upload a document and receive a free
plagiarism report based on material on all web pages and in its extensive
database.
PlagTracker is a foolproof way to make sure your writing is appropriately
documented and to ensure that you won't be accused of plagiarism.
Well, earlier in our lesson we learned that some people have had their positions
or degrees revoked for plagiarizing.
We read here, however:
However, you can avoid all of these consequences by citing your sources in the
correct format and by confirming you did your work through an online plagiarism
checking service.
That's a big sentence.
But let's take a look at one of those words there.
The word, of course, is "cite." Now if you cite your sources, that means you are
saying where you got your idea from.
It's as simple as that.
Make sure you cite your sources when you are writing something.
How else might you use that word, Carolyn?
Well, if you hear something that you like, you might say: Oh. Well, I heard it
from this person, or I read in this book.
That is also a way to cite some information that you've heard before, although a
lot of people don't do this when they're having conversations.
Right. That's not as common or as important as when you're writing a paper.
Well, Nathanael, how else might you use that word?
Well, I think it's also useful to know the noun form of this word - citation.
C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
You have citations, usually at the end of your paper, to tell where you got your
information.
And that's a very important part of writing a paper for school.
You need to have your references, your citations.
Of course, if someone wants to quote you, then you could say: Hey, you... you
can cite me if you want.
Just... just quote me say that I said this.
You can cite me.
Well, how does the lesson continue, Carolyn?
Well, we were talking about plagiarism tracking services or checking services.
And we see that:
For example, PlagTracker allows you to upload a document and receive a free
plagiarism report based on material on all web pages and in its extensive
database.
So it looks like PlagTracker is one great way that you can use to check your
papers to make sure you didn't plagiarize the information.
That's right.
You can get a free plagiarism report.
That sounds like a good idea, especially if you're a little worried about if you
plagiarized.
Well, Nathanael, how do we continue?
Next sentence talks a little bit more about PlagTracker.
PlagTracker is a foolproof way to make sure your writing is appropriately
documented and to ensure that you won't be accused of plagiarism.
All right.
It is very important that you don't want to be accused of doing something like
this.
Let's talk about some of those words in that sentence.
The first one from the Word Bank is "foolproof." I like that word, foolproof.
That means you... you won't feel like a fool after you've used something.
It's foolproof.
But how else can you use that word, Carolyn?
Well, it does mean that it is foolproof, you can not be fooled.
And a lot of times I think of ideas as being as foolproof.
You might say this is a foolproof plan.
It cannot fail.
How else can you use this word, Nathanael?
I also think of a foolproof plan.
But I think usually when we're making plans, there's lots of different things
that could go wrong.
There are very few foolproof plans.
All right.
There are few foolproof plans.
Things could go wrong.
I think of maybe a foolproof method.
Some method has been tried many times over and over again, and it usually goes
right.
That's a foolproof method of doing something.
Well, we see another word here in this sentence from the Word Bank: document.
And this kind of has a similar meeting to the word "cite." You need to document
something.
That means you say where you got an idea from, to write down the important
things, to document something.
How could you use that word, Nathanael?
"Document" can also mean to list something officially.
It's really kind of the same meaning, just used a little bit of a different way.
So for example, your marriage should be documented.
There should be an official record of it.
Or your car should be documented as well.
That's right.
A lot of people carry around documents that show that they are documented.
Maybe you have a passport that is an identity document.
It lets people know that you are from a certain country.
It is documented that you are from that country.
OK. I like that this word can be used as a noun as well.
You have certain documents.
Well, all of this at PlagTracker is to ensure that you won't be accused of
plagiarism.
"To be accused of something" - that's when someone says you did this and it was
wrong.
What other things could you be accused of in life, Carolyn?
Well, a lot of times you might be accused of doing things that you didn't
actually do.
Maybe something goes missing, and your sister blames you you took it.
But you didn't.
It is very common.
Well, now it is time to go see Michelle in the Language Lab.
OK.
(Chinese).
Well, I'll give the time back to our teachers.
Well, I learned a little bit about plagiarism today.
And an important way to make sure that people don't accuse you of plagiarizing
is that you can go and check out PlagTracker.
Check that out online when you have time.
But do you think that plagiarism is really a big issue, Nathanael?
Well, I think that it is honest to say where you got your information from,
and it's also respectful to where you got it from, and it's also helpful to
other people later that read your paper and want to learn more.
I think it's a very good thing not to plagiarize.
OK. What do you think about this issue of plagiarism, Carolyn?
Well, I know it was a bit of a problem at my college because we had a lot of
international students who were not familiar with how to cite their research,
and they didn't understand what plagiarism was.
Oh, man. So some people might learn this lesson the hard way.
I hope you're not one of those people.
Remember to cite your sources when you are writing something.
OK. Well, thank you for joining us for today and our lesson about plagiarism.
And we'll see you next time right here at Studio Classroom.
Goodbye.