Shorty Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 So recently I started working on my extended essay in Geography. I've been slightly worried about what exactly plagiarism is. I know the basics like stealing other people's ideas and presenting it as your own. My teacher has given me a few sample essays to read over and see how they organized it and such. I saw one that I really liked and I'm really not sure if taking the way he/she organized their essay but also some headings. Can anyone clarify this better for me please? thank you! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lily Bean Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Take a look at this: [url="http://www.ibsurvival.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=219"]http://www.ibsurvival.com/forum/index.php?...post&id=219[/url] Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deissi Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 [quote name='Lily Bean' post='19926' date='Jul 18 2008, 04:54 AM']Take a look at this: [url="http://www.ibsurvival.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=219"]http://www.ibsurvival.com/forum/index.php?...post&id=219[/url][/quote] I don't think he was looking for an official book answer there. I'm sorry, but I don't have a conclusive answer to your question, but I'm sure Hien will . Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruan Chun Xian Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Haha actually I don't have an answer either. Honestly, by now, I have no idea what IBO qualifies and [b]penalises[/b] as 'plagiarism' since I've stopped thinking about it. At my uni plagiarism includes a whole host of things like paraphrasing without referencing, just using an idea and developing it and stuff, so basically when I do papers for uni I have to reference every single line but I know for sure I didn't reference THAT much in IB and still got away with it. I'm sure by what my uni would call plagiarism, I did a lot of it in IB. But what IBO would penalise you for, I'm actually not sure. The document that is linked up there actually have a part (section 2.5) that says that if it is obvious in a case where the candidate doesn't mean to plagiarise but only didn't reference because they didn't know they have to then they wouldn't be penalised or something like that...I think IBO is a little more lenient, as long as you don't take someone's whole work and change a few words and hand it in. Shorty, in case you do get through all my ramblings and get to here, I think if you only take the structure and skeleton of the work, with the subheadings I'm sure it's fine. As long as the contents of the work is your own and referenced. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted July 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Ok, thanks HMS. I take it I probably wont be able to reference another IB candidate's work... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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