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ETHICS – AVOID

PLAGIARISM AND

FABRICATION • Define plagiarism and fabrication and identify

their consequences

• Identify the three types of information you don’t

have to attribute

• Avoid plagiarism by attributing and paraphrasing

• Attribute information from an email and a website

CREDIT TO CRONKITE Adapted from and used with permission: Guidelines on

plagiarism, fabrication and sourcing for students at Arizona

State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and

Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona, United States

DEFINE PLAGIARISM

AND FABRICATION And identify their consequences.

SINS AGAINST THE AUDIENCE

•Fabrication = lying

•Plagiarism = stealing

DEFINITION: FABRICATION Making things up and passing them off as genuine.

By Sodanie Chea

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sodaniechea/

EXAMPLE: FABRICATION Adding words to a quote to make it sound better.

By Sodanie Chea


DEFINITION: PLAGIARISM Taking credit for phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even an

entire story that someone else created. This is true whether

you do it intentionally or inadvertently.

By *sax

https://www.flickr.com/photos/saxonmoseley/

EXAMPLE: PLAGIARISM Taking a quote from another news story without attributing it.

By *sax


CONSEQUENCES?

By *sax

By *sax and Sodanie Chea





FABRICATION: STEPHEN GLASS

• Reporter, 23, at

The New Republic

• Fabricated 27 of

41 articles from

1995-1998

• 2003 film

Shattered Glass

• 2003 interview

FABRICATION: STEPHEN GLASS

• 2014: California

Supreme Court

rules Glass, by

then 41, cannot

practice law

• Working as a

paralegal From 60 Minutes interview

IDENTIFY THE 3 TYPES

OF INFO YOU DON’T

HAVE TO ATTRIBUTE 1. Common knowledge

2. Background knowledge

3. What you see yourself

DEFINITION: ATTRIBUTION Identifying the source of a

quote or information in a story

DEFINITION: QUOTATION The exact words that someone

spoke. They are enclosed by

quotation marks.

EXAMPLE: ATTRIBUTION “If we want to inherit from my

father, we have to build a real

democratic nation,” said

democracy leader Aung San

Suu Kyi.

EXAMPLE: ATTRIBUTION The economy in Burma should

continue to grow at an annual

rate of 8.5 percent in 2015-16,

the same as the year before,

according to the International

Monetary Fund.

ATTRIBUTE EVERYTHING, EXCEPT: Common knowledge

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U Thein Sein is president of Myanmar.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chathamhouse/

ATTRIBUTE EVERYTHING, EXCEPT: Background knowledge

By Chatham House

U Thein Sein was

born in 1945 in

Kyonku. He

graduated from

the Defence

Services Academy

in 1968.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chathamhouse/

ATTRIBUTE EVERYTHING, EXCEPT: What you see yourself

June 30, 2015

ATTRIBUTE EVERYTHING, EXCEPT: What you see yourself

A crowd of hungry

customers more than

100-strong formed lines

that spilled out onto the

sidewalk…soon after

KFC opened its doors.

AVOID PLAGIARISM By attributing and paraphrasing

AVOID PLAGIARISM 1. Quote and attribute.

Put the exact words in quote

marks and who said them.

2. Paraphrase and attribute.

Use your own words and

who said them.

EXERCISE: AVOID PLAGIARISM

July 2, 2015


“This shows there is no rule of

law in our country,”

– demonstrator Win Hlaing of

Prome, quoted by


Can you write in your story:


law in our country,” said

demonstrator Win Hlaing of

Prome.




law in our country,”

demonstrator Win Hlaing of

Prome told the Democratic

Voice of Burma.


You call Win Hlaing in jail, but he says he can’t talk and to use his quote in DVB. You write in your story:

“This shows there is no rule of law in our country,” said demonstrator Win Hlaing of Prome.






who said them.


July 2, 2015


Economist U Hla Maung said

the introduction of new notes

rouses people’s suspicion as

there are rumours that the

note is in response to

counterfeiting. –

from



Economist U Hla Maung said

the introduction of new notes

rouses people’s suspicion as

there are rumours that the

note is in response to

counterfeiting.



Economist U Hla Maung said the introduction of new notes rouses people’s suspicion as there are rumours that the note is in response to counterfeiting, the Myanmar Times reported.



“Economist U Hla Maung said the introduction of new notes rouses people’s suspicion as there are rumours that the note is in response to counterfeiting,” the Myanmar Times reported.



New notes rouse people’s

suspicion that the notes are in

response to counterfeiting,

Economist U Hla Maung told

the Myanmar Times.






who said them.

ATTRIBUTE

INFORMATION FROM

AN EMAIL

WHICH INTERVIEW IS BEST?

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Day

https://www.flickr.com/photos/itzafineday/


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https://www.flickr.com/photos/soulnotes/


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https://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymouscollective/

WHY EMAIL IS WORST •The subject may be

masquerading as

someone else.

•Reporter has less

control over timing.

•Asking follow-up

questions is harder.

•The way someone

writes is not how

they speak.

By A

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cc

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymouscollective/

ATTRIBUTE EMAIL INTERVIEW

“The telescope will collect

data, hopefully leading to

discoveries about the

expansion of the universe.”

– Email from Dr. Saw-Wai Hla



•“The telescope will collect data,

hopefully leading to discoveries

about the expansion of the

universe,” said Dr. Saw-Wai Hla,

astronomy professor at the

University of Computer Studies

in Yangon.



•“The telescope will collect data,

hopefully leading to discoveries

about the expansion of the

universe,” said Dr. Saw-Wai Hla

in an email. He is an astronomy

professor at the University of

Computer Studies in Yangon.

ATTRIBUTE INFO

FROM A WEBSITE

ATTRIBUTE TO A WEBSITE “During the rebuilding that started in 1948, a relic chamber was discovered. Inside the chamber was a stone casket encircled by Nat (spirit) figures standing guard.”

– https://www.renown-travel.com

https://www.renown-travel.com/





ATTRIBUTE TO A WEBSITE


During the rebuilding that started in 1948, a relic chamber was discovered. Inside the chamber was a stone casket encircled by Nat (spirit) figures standing guard.

ATTRIBUTE TO A WEBSITE Can you write in your story:

“During the rebuilding that

started in 1948, a relic chamber

was discovered. Inside the

chamber was a stone casket

encircled by Nat (spirit) figures

standing guard,” according to

the website renown-travel.com.




ATTRIBUTE TO A WEBSITE


A relic chamber was found

during the rebuilding, which

began in 1948. The chamber

contained a stone casket

decorated with Nat (spirit)

figures, according to the website

renown-travel.com.




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