WEBVTT 00:00:14.157 --> 00:00:18.791 Welcome to the Department of Plagiarism Investigation. 00:00:18.791 --> 00:00:21.653 The D.P.I. has dealt with numerous complex cases 00:00:21.653 --> 00:00:24.010 in their effort to bring plagiarists to justice 00:00:24.010 --> 00:00:26.348 and to rescue purloined texts. 00:00:26.348 --> 00:00:27.942 The first form of plagiarism 00:00:27.942 --> 00:00:30.187 that the D.P.I. regularly encounters 00:00:30.187 --> 00:00:32.314 is known as brain child snatching, 00:00:32.314 --> 00:00:34.399 in honor of the Latin word, plagiarius, 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:36.400 from which plagiarism originates. 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:39.082 Brain child snatchers sneak up on innocent papers 00:00:39.082 --> 00:00:40.237 and copy and paste them 00:00:40.237 --> 00:00:41.989 without citing any sources, 00:00:41.989 --> 00:00:44.176 putting quotation marks around direct quotes 00:00:44.176 --> 00:00:45.867 or changing a word. 00:00:45.867 --> 00:00:47.787 They've also been known to steal and hold 00:00:47.787 --> 00:00:51.025 particularly eloquent essays for ransom. 00:00:51.025 --> 00:00:53.208 When brain child snatchers get together, 00:00:53.208 --> 00:00:54.957 they form a kidnapping ring, 00:00:54.957 --> 00:00:56.461 which involves brain child snatching 00:00:56.461 --> 00:00:58.296 from multiple sources. 00:00:58.296 --> 00:01:00.215 Some perpetrators have even been known 00:01:00.215 --> 00:01:01.967 to commit self-plagiarism, 00:01:01.967 --> 00:01:05.388 one of the laziest crimes in the annals of the D.P.I. 00:01:05.388 --> 00:01:07.704 Also known as one-sided collaborators, 00:01:07.704 --> 00:01:09.809 these odd balls snatch up entire texts 00:01:09.809 --> 00:01:12.306 or small passages that they've written before 00:01:12.306 --> 00:01:14.854 and present them as brand-new material. 00:01:14.854 --> 00:01:16.674 Brain child snatchers and kidnapping rings 00:01:16.674 --> 00:01:18.718 are easy for the D.P.I. to catch. 00:01:18.734 --> 00:01:21.157 Just paste a few passages into a search engine, 00:01:21.157 --> 00:01:21.825 and BAM! 00:01:21.825 --> 00:01:23.633 They're caught red-handed. 00:01:23.633 --> 00:01:25.269 The more covert forms of plagiarism 00:01:25.269 --> 00:01:27.640 include the wild goose chase technique, 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:29.971 in which plagiarists create fake authors, 00:01:29.971 --> 00:01:30.757 book titles, 00:01:30.757 --> 00:01:31.566 page numbers, 00:01:31.566 --> 00:01:32.736 or other information 00:01:32.736 --> 00:01:34.674 in order to cover up plagiarism. 00:01:34.674 --> 00:01:36.668 And the old synonym switcheroo 00:01:36.668 --> 00:01:38.602 in which plagiarists utilize a thesaurus 00:01:38.602 --> 00:01:39.874 as their main weapon. 00:01:39.874 --> 00:01:41.143 By substituting a synonym 00:01:41.143 --> 00:01:42.913 for nearly every word in the document 00:01:42.913 --> 00:01:44.331 and leaving the sentence structure 00:01:44.331 --> 00:01:46.495 and order of the ideas the same, 00:01:46.495 --> 00:01:48.211 plagiarists give legitimate paraphrasing 00:01:48.211 --> 00:01:49.666 a very bad name. 00:01:49.666 --> 00:01:51.668 Shoddy paraphrasing is also a key part 00:01:51.668 --> 00:01:53.796 of variations on a smokescreen, 00:01:53.796 --> 00:01:55.504 a technique in which multiple passages 00:01:55.504 --> 00:01:56.512 are paraphrased, 00:01:56.512 --> 00:02:00.266 then pasted together into one. 00:02:00.266 --> 00:02:02.588 The thorniest issue that the D.P.I. deals with 00:02:02.588 --> 00:02:03.850 is the misconception 00:02:03.850 --> 00:02:05.842 that you can never be accused of plagiarism 00:02:05.842 --> 00:02:08.229 if you use quotes and cite your sources. 00:02:08.229 --> 00:02:10.552 This is most certainly not the case 00:02:10.552 --> 00:02:11.942 because a paper that is made up 00:02:11.942 --> 00:02:14.707 of passage upon passage of other people's ideas 00:02:14.707 --> 00:02:16.998 is known as a wholly quotable document. 00:02:16.998 --> 00:02:18.164 This is considered plagiarism 00:02:18.164 --> 00:02:21.398 since there are no original thoughts in the work. 00:02:21.398 --> 00:02:23.294 Similarly, passage after passage 00:02:23.294 --> 00:02:26.623 of too closely paraphrased text from multiple cited sources 00:02:26.623 --> 00:02:30.078 is also plagiarism of the pervasively paraphrased kind 00:02:30.078 --> 00:02:33.545 because the ideas still aren't one's own. 00:02:33.545 --> 00:02:36.818 And lastly, the technique of revealing while concealing 00:02:36.818 --> 00:02:39.499 is plagiarism because it involves selective amnesia 00:02:39.499 --> 00:02:40.962 regarding one's sources 00:02:40.962 --> 00:02:43.104 in an attempt to cover up wholly quotable 00:02:43.104 --> 00:02:46.067 and pervasively paraphrased issues in a text. 00:02:46.067 --> 00:02:48.485 Some passages are meticulously documented, 00:02:48.485 --> 00:02:49.109 quoted, 00:02:49.109 --> 00:02:50.129 or paraphrased, 00:02:50.129 --> 00:02:53.862 while others are presented entirely as one's own. 00:02:53.862 --> 00:02:56.495 As you can see, the D.P.I. has its hands full, 00:02:56.495 --> 00:02:59.372 tackling all sorts of academic mischief and mayhem, 00:02:59.372 --> 00:03:02.375 ranging from the petty to the outrageous. 00:03:02.375 --> 00:03:04.515 Given the gravity of these transgressions, 00:03:04.515 --> 00:03:06.431 you might be wondering why you've never heard 00:03:06.431 --> 00:03:09.610 of the Department of Plagiarism Investigation's victories. 00:03:09.610 --> 00:03:12.132 That's because it doesn't technically exist. 00:03:12.132 --> 00:03:15.467 But people, like you and me, can be our own D.P.I. agents 00:03:15.467 --> 00:03:16.629 to fight plagiarism 00:03:16.629 --> 00:03:19.306 and uphold the values of original thinking. 00:03:19.306 --> 00:03:21.951 We know that the best defense against plagiarism 00:03:21.951 --> 00:03:23.774 consists of writers who save themselves 00:03:23.774 --> 00:03:25.381 time, worry, and effort 00:03:25.381 --> 00:03:27.020 by taking the far easier road 00:03:27.020 --> 00:03:29.524 of just doing the work themselves.