KP290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Secondary Source, Intellectual History

• School: WLU
• Department: Kinesiology & Physical Education
• Course: KP290
• Professor: Kimberley Dawson

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How do we look at referencing: descriptively academic convention, prescriptively university policy, set of rules that can be used against you unless you choose to become informed about proper referencing/plagiarism. In the wlu academic calendar, plagiarism is listed with: cheating, submitting the same piece of work, or a significant part thereof, for more than one course, buying or otherwise obtaining term papers. Why do we cite sources: academic reasons. Intellectual history fi(cid:374)d out ho(cid:449) people (cid:271)uild ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396)(cid:859)s thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g o(cid:396) findings: citations document how our collective knowledge base takes shape over time. If it(cid:859)s a g(cid:396)oup assig(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, the othe(cid:396) people i(cid:374) (cid:455)ou(cid:396) g(cid:396)oup (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e affe(cid:272)ted: ex. they can receive the same or similar punishment. If you get the assignment from someone else (ex. a student who has done the assignment) s/he can be affected. It can affect your current scholarships and your ability to apply for future ones.