Being ethical in your work means you represent the IB learner Profile since you are a principled thinker who communicates in a caring or respectful and reflective manner.
1) Being honest and ethical
You must be honest about what is your own work and what isn't, and about where you got your information.
2) Listing all your sources
Research using different sources of information is an important part of work at WAB. Being an ethical researcher and a good scholar means listing all your sources and correctly citing each source.
3) Using your own words
Communicate what you have learned in your own words, this is challenging but is a part of critical thinking and leads to analysis.
Through analysis, you further your knowledge, the knowledge in the field and you deserve credit for your own work.
Key attributes of good scholarship:
excerpt from: HSC: All My Own Work
http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/module1/module1s1.html
Goals for Research
1) Analyze information from different sources and compare it to your prior knowledge
2) Evaluate and begin to formulate your own ideas and critique the information
3) Write to share your perspective, ensuring to credit those who helped you build your information as well as take credit for your own work.
PARROTED PARAPHRASE
A parroted paraphrase gives the appearance of paraphrasing by rewriting of another author's ideas through the substitution of synonyms and by other minor editing while maintaining the overall structure of the source. Although such writing includes both the in-text citation and the reference, some may question whether or not this is plagiarism because it is really just a minor variation from the original source. Parroting is basically an imitation of something.
PARROTED PLAGIARISM
If you use another person's ideas with very minimal paraphrasing and do not acknowledge the original author so an in-text citation or reference is not included, then this is a clear form of plagiarism.
In your notes, differentiate the following:
Quotes: If you quote someone directly in your work, use an in-text citation and include it in your reference section.
Paraphrase: when you put someone else’s idea into your own words, you still need to include an in-text citation and include it in your reference section
Visual Materials: If you cite statistics, graphs, or charts from a study, cite the source. If you didn’t do the original research, then you need to credit the person(s) or institution, etc. that did.
Use a note-taking system such as Cornell Notes which allow you to record references and keep track to make in-text citations easier.
References - Indiana University, NSW Education Authority, Learn to listen slideshow, images creative commons
