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Pagination
Paginating with Word
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Respect copyright?
Preventing plagiarism
Cégep Policy
Excerpt from the Institutional Policy for the Evaluation of Learning (PIEA) of the Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles, May 2009, pages 12 and 13:
2.12 FRAUD AND PLAGIARISM
2.12.1 Any fraud, attempted fraud or collaboration in fraud results in a grade of “0” for the test or work given. In these cases, the teacher must enter the documents and write a report that will be sent to the centre’s management by the department coordinator or to the pedagogical advisor for continuing education. The use of MP3 players, cell phones or laptops (with some exceptions) during classroom exams is prohibited.
2.12.2 A student who plagiarizes, i.e. who gives as his or her own what he or she has plundered or borrowed from any author, without indicating the reference, and regardless of the source, including electronic sources, obtains a grade of “0” for the work given.
2.12.3 Any recurrence of fraud or plagiarism on the part of the student will result in a grade of “0” for the course concerned.
Learn to paraphrase
To find information for research, you need to consult several types of documents written by authors. This information belongs to them and, in order to use it, it must therefore be indicated in the works. This is a basic rule in any research work since one must always respect intellectual property and copyright law. It is necessary to indicate where all the information comes from, regardless of the type of medium on which it was found (Internet, book, magazine, images, video, etc.). Failure to comply with this rule constitutes a form of plagiarism. To avoid this, it is therefore necessary to indicate the sources, i.e. to specify where the information used when writing a work comes from. In addition to giving credit to those who wrote this information, it also allows the reader to consult the source that was used to do the work. It also adds value to the work since it shows that you have learned about the subject.
The source of all the information used to do a job should therefore be clearly identified. There are different methods to do this. The APA (American Psychological Association) method is the one recommended for CEGEPs. However, some teachers may ask to use another method such as the footnote method, also known as the traditional method.
Video clip: citing your sources to avoid plagiarism
Indicate your sources with the APA (American Psychological Association) method
Summary tableto make quotations and paraphrases
Indicate your sources with the traditional method
Some teachers may ask to indicate the source of paraphrases and quotations using the so-called traditional method. This video shows how. Be sure to left-click on Dionne (Traditional) to access the correct information.
Integrating citations into a work
Quotations are excerpts taken directly from the documents consulted during the preparation of the work, regardless of their medium (encyclopedia, book, periodical or newspaper article, on the Internet, etc.). Although it is preferable, in order to preserve the unity of the text, to summarize an author’s thought — this is a paraphrase — it may sometimes be necessary to quote it verbatim. The quotation is therefore different from the paraphrase (see section 10 on this subject) since it reproduces verbatim the author’s words.
All excerpts must correspond exactly to the original in terms of words, spelling, punctuation, and even formatting (italics, underlining, etc.) even if there are errors in the excerpt (see the end of section 9.3.3 for details).
The source of the quotation must always be indicated as well as the number of the page from which it originated. For documents without pages, such as websites, it is recommended that the paragraph number be indicated (for example, para. 4).
There are different methods to indicate the source of citations. Two are presented in this document: the author-date method and the footnote method (also known as the traditional method). To find out which one to use, you should ask your teacher for advice. Note that the same method must be used for all of a job.
