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Lessons 1&2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plagerism | the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. |
| Copyright Laws | A law protecting the intellectual property of individuals, giving them exclusive rights over the distribution and reproduction of that material. |
| Copyright Act | is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions. |
| Are all Published works copyrighted | not all are, public domain is not under the copyright act |
| Can fact be copyrighted | any fact that is published |
| What is citation | 1) A short, formal indication of the source of information or quoted material. 2) The act of quoting material or the material quoted. |
| What do you need to citation? | work that is not your own thoughts |
| Attribution | The acknowledgement that something came from another source. |
| Cite | 1) to indicate a source of information or quoted material in a short, formal note. 2) to quote 3) to ascribe something to a source |
| Common Knowledge | Information that is readily available from a number of sources, or so well-known that its sources do not have to be cited. |
| Bibliography | A list of sources used in preparing a work. |
| Endnotes | Notes at the end of a paper acknowledging sources and providing additional references or information. |
| Facts | Knowledge or information based on real, observable occurrences. |
| Footnotes | Notes at the bottom of a paper acknowledging sources or providing additional references or information. |
| Fair Use | The guidelines for deciding whether the use of a source is permissible or constitutes a copyright infringement. |
| Intellectual Property | A product of the intellect, such as an expressed idea or concept, that has commercial value |
| Notation | The form of a citation; the system by which one refers to cited sources. |
| Original | 1) Not derived from anything else, new and unique 2) Markedly departing from previous practice 3) The first, preceding all others in time 4) The source from which copies are made |
| Paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in other words |
| Peer Review | teaching tool that allows students to anonymously review the work of their peers. |
| Plagiarism | The reproduction or appropriation of someone else’s work without proper attribution; passing off as one’s own the work of someone else |
| Public Domain | The absence of copyright protection; belonging to the public so that anyone may copy or borrow from it. |
| Quotation | Using words from another source |
| Self-plagiarism | Copying material you have previously produced and passing it off as a new production. |
| What are the consequence | Expulsion, court order |