Friday, February 13, 2009

Plagiarism

For the next few weeks, we're going to be talking about plagiarism, about what it is, and how to avoid it.

Today in class, I want you to read some definitions of plagiarism:
Plagiarism.org
Wikipedia (notice esp. self-plagiarism)
OWL
Exercises

Classwork/Homework then consists of:
  • Find one of the articles you will be using for your paper
  • Open your blog and start a new post
  • Create a link to that article at the top of the post
  • Cut and paste a paragraph from the article that you feel includes the main thesis of the article
  • As in the exercises above, demonstrate plagiarism of that paragraph in a made up paragraph of your paper
  • Then demonstrate how to properly quote and/or paraphrase that paragraph for use in your paper. (HINT: a proper quote includes an introductory phrase like "Smith argues", the quote, and then analysis of the quote.



3 comments:

  1. hey, Dr. Frantz I just wanted to inform that I posted both the assignment.

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  2. hey looking back at your post I think I misunderstood the assignment and I tried to link the site but for some reason it wouldnt work so if you can explain to me how to do it again that would be great and I will redo the whole thing. Thanks.

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  3. I just did the assignment over again if you would like to look at it agian its not a new post its the same one just revised

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