Effective Communication: Research & Writing
Module 4: Process Writing
4. Ethical Writing
On-the-job writing involves much more than conveying facts about products, equipment, costs, and the day-to-day operations of a business. Your writing also has to be ethical. Writing ethically means doing what is right and fair, and it is also about being honest and just with your employer, co-workers, and customers. Your reputation and character along with your employer's image is dependent upon your course of action. It is important that you give full and complete credit to any sources you used, including resource people.
Plagiarism is stealing someone else's words (work) and claiming it as your own. At work, plagiarism is unethically claiming a co-worker's ideas, input, or report as your contribution. In a research report or paper, you are guilty of plagiarism if you use another person's words without documenting the source.
At CSU Global Campus the Schoology platform software contains a plagiarism detection feature, Turnitin assignment dropbox. When your projects are scanned by Turnitin Originality Checker, your professors will receive an originality report showing them if there were any matches to an article database, to the Internet, or to a database of other student papers and projects. If you have cited your paraphrased or quoted sources and used quotation marks around your quotes, then you are an ethical writer.
It is important to remember when you do quote another person's work to not use selective misquoting, which omits damaging comments to paint a better (but perhaps untruthful) picture. Here is an example:
Full quotation: "I've enjoyed at times our firm's association with Technology, Inc. although I was troubled by the uneven quality of their service. At times, it was excellent while at others it was far less so."
Selective Misquotation: "I've enjoyed…our firm's association with Technology, Inc. The quality of their service was…excellent."
The dots, which are called ellipses, unethically suggest that only extraneous or unimportant details were omitted (Kolin, 2006).
More detailed information can be found on this Plagiarism tutorial (http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php) website.
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