TurnItIn
Turnitin is software that the university subscribes to that detects potential plagiarism. It will generate a “similarity” score that indicates the percentage of the student’s paper that matches the vast content in Turnitin’s database. Your professor can add a dropbox in Pilot for this tool so that you can use it.
More resources
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Citing Your SourcesA WSU Libraries guide to citing your sources in many different styles.
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Wright State Writing CenterA free writing consultation service for Wright State students.
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CopyrightA Wright State University Libraries guide to U.S. Copyright law and using copyrighted content.
Writing paraphrases or summaries
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Use a statement that credits the source somewhere in the paraphrase or summary, e.g., According to Jonathan Kozol, ...).
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If you're having trouble summarizing, try writing your paraphrase or summary of a text without looking at the original, relying only on your memory and notes
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Check your paraphrase or summary against the original text; correct any errors in content accuracy, and be sure to use quotation marks to set off any exact phrases from the original text
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Check your paraphrase or summary against sentence and paragraph structure, as copying those is also considered plagiarism.
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Put quotation marks around any unique words or phrases that you cannot or do not want to change: e.g., "savage inequalities" exist throughout our educational system (Kozol).
Works Cited
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992. Print.
