Do you need to cite yourself if you are reusing you own material?

[GoingUp]

So we had a semester long project in my info security class. 10 page, report. Part A of our take home is "create a case study based on your project, discuss the problem, industry segment, etc"

Its a really stupid question b/c its basically "rewrite everything you already wrote for the report"

So I just basicly cut and pasted from my report into my take home final.

Do you think I can get in trouble for this? Do I need to cite my own previous report from class?

 

[AFB]

Why not

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Why not

because its crap that I already wrote, and im resubmitting it. why do i have to cite myself?

 

[remagavon]

If you wrote the material for another class then yes; basically if it was a different semester's work- then yes you need to cite yourself. It's actually considered plagurism if you use some old work without citing yourself. It's very stupid.

 

[SurgicalShark]

It will look professional and it is a common practice.

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On a different note, scientist at NASA/other govt agencies were at trouble over citing their own work again and again to create impression that their work was widely read. If you know, it matters how much time somebody has cited your work as a reference!

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: remagavon
If you wrote the material for another class then yes; basically if it was a different semester's work- then yes you need to cite yourself. It's actually considered plagurism if you use some old work without citing yourself. It's very stupid.

I wrote the material for the same class this semester.

 

[Anubis]

cite it anyway, you can get in trouble for plagerizing yourself, i know its stupid but it happens

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Anubis
site it anyway, you can get in trouble for plagerizing yourself, i know its stupid but it happens

argh. thats what I thought

 

[Reel]

If you have no other citations, I would do it informally and inline:

As found in my earlier research this semester, "blah blah."

If you are citing other material, I would just slap it in a formal citations page.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs

Originally posted by: Anubis
cite it anyway, you can get in trouble for plagerizing yourself, i know its stupid but it happens

argh. thats what I thought

why argh?

it takes like 3 lines to cite yourself at then end of a paper

i guess if you do footnotes its a b!tch but then dont use footnotes

 

[DrPizza]

how the fvck do you plagiarize yourself?!
Look up the definition of "plagiarize" - every definition I've ever read says it's passing someone else's ideas off as your own.

There's nothing wrong with citing your own works... but an absence of citing your own works is NOT plagiarism.

 

[maziwanka]

you do have to cite previous papers even if written by yourself

 

[DrPizza]

Oh, and if you quote from your own works, you don't need the quotation marks.
But, if you use the quotation marks, the reader will expect a citation to the original source. If you don't cite yourself in such an instance, it will lead to confusion for the reader, but will not be plagiarism. (provided the quotation of your own material came from your own thoughts)

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
how the fvck do you plagiarize yourself?!
Look up the definition of "plagiarize" - every definition I've ever read says it's passing someone else's ideas off as your own.

There's nothing wrong with citing your own works... but an absence of citing your own works is NOT plagiarism.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. From a teacher no less.

From Marriam-Webster Dictionary of Law (1996)

Main Entry: pla·gia·rize
...
transitive verb : to copy and pass off (the expression of ideas or words of another) as one's own
...
intransitive verb : to present as new and original an idea or work derived from an existing source

Your definition is the transitive verb definition of plagiarizm. However, you can plagiarize yourself with the intransitive verb definition. People have been kicked out of school for plagiarizing themselves.

As I said in another thread:

Read this from plagiarism.org

"The Self-Stealer"
The writer "borrows" generously from his or her previous work, violating policies concerning the expectation of originality adopted by most academic institutions.

Go to google.com and do a search for "self-plagiarism" and you will see many other sites agreeing that copying your own paper is considered plagiarism.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: DrPizza
how the fvck do you plagiarize yourself?!
Look up the definition of "plagiarize" - every definition I've ever read says it's passing someone else's ideas off as your own.

There's nothing wrong with citing your own works... but an absence of citing your own works is NOT plagiarism.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. From a teacher no less.

From Marriam-Webster Dictionary of Law (1996)

Main Entry: pla·gia·rize
...
transitive verb : to copy and pass off (the expression of ideas or words of another) as one's own
...
intransitive verb : to present as new and original an idea or work derived from an existing source

Your definition is the transitive verb definition of plagiarizm. However, you can plagiarize yourself with the intransitive verb definition. People have been kicked out of school for plagiarizing themselves.

As I said in another thread:

Read this from plagiarism.org

"The Self-Stealer"
The writer "borrows" generously from his or her previous work, violating policies concerning the expectation of originality adopted by most academic institutions.

Go to google.com and do a search for "self-plagiarism" and you will see many other sites agreeing that copying your own paper is considered plagiarism.

Wow. I stand corrected.
I never in a million years would have suspected that.