UNR Anthropology

Graduate Student Orientation:

Library Resources and Plagiarism Guidance

JEREMY FLOYD, METADATA LIBRARIAN, ANTHROPOLOGY LIAISON

JFLOYD@UNR.EDU

Plagiarism Defined

See GRADUATE STUDENT MANUAL, Department of Anthropology page 16

Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work as one's own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged.

Do not need to cite:

Your own lived experiences, observations, thoughts, and conclusions

Your own research, such as results from experiments or field observations

Your own photographs, video, audio, or other media

Common knowledge and general accepted facts

Unintentional Plagiarism may result from the disregard for or unawareness of proper scholarly procedures, including using sources correctly and citing those sources.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Ways to get information from sources into your paper

Quoting – using an author’s exact words

Paraphrasing – putting an author’s ideas into your own

words

Summarizing – putting an author’s ideas into your own

words in a shorter format

Quoting

Choose passages that either seem especially well phrased or are unique to the author or subject matter.

Be selective in your quotations.

Integrate your quotes into your writing.

You don’t have to quote a whole passage. Use ellipses (…) to indicate words left out.

Paraphrasing

Don’t just take a passage and change a word

here or there.

Read the passage, reflect upon it, and restate it.

Look away from your sources.

Paraphrase and then go back and check. Are

there any phrases that have come directly from

the text?

Summarizing

Ask yourself:

What is the main idea that the author is trying to

convey?

What idea does all of the supporting evidence

point to?

What is most important to me in the context in

which I am writing?

Further Sources on Plagiarism

Purdue Online Writing Lab (2013). Is it plagiarism yet?

Purdue University. Retrieved from

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/2/

Indiana University School of Education (2016) How to Recognize Plagiarism. Retrieved from https://www.indiana.edu/~academy/firstPrinciples/index.html

UNR Libraries (2012). The Writing Process: Style Manuals, Documenting Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/93OHPIqbPPE

Library Resources

and Services

IF YOU NEED SOMETHING, AND WE DO NOT HAVE IT

(OR YOU’RE NOT SURE)

TALK TO ME

JFLOYD@UNR.EDU

Library Resources

New Library Website – your portal for finding all of library resources

and services (sorry its all new, but hopefully improved)

Anthropology Library Guide – Anthropology specific resources and

databases

Manuscripts & Archives Collection Guides – primary source

materials held at UNR, many collections relevant to

archaeological, socio/cultural and linguistic research

Interlibrary Loan/Campus express – get materials not held by the

Libraries/receive scanned copies of materials available only in print

Even More Library Resources

Library Acquisitions – forms to request books, media and

subscriptions to resources (journals, databases) also may send

request directly to me: jfloyd@unr.edu

Student-facing Services – Get research help, reserve a room,

find out what software is available. And you can always make

an appointment with me for a one on one research consolation

Faculty and Graduate Student Carrels – limited number of

private carrels and lockers available for research, checked out

for a year at a time

And a 3rd Page of Library Resources

Poster Printing – for professional presentations, departmental

activities – not for Non-UNR affiliated activities or monetary

gain

Equipment Loan – audio/video, computing, lighting,

presentation tools

DeLaMare Library – 3d printing, scanning, vinyl and laser

cutting, microcontrollers, electronics and soldering tools,

virtual and augmented reality tools

Thank you,

and Welcome to UNR

JEREMY FLOYD

JFLOYD@UNR.EDU

@JJAMESFLOYD

link to presentation:

bit.ly/2bGds5R