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 |