1. Avoiding Plagiarism
March 20th

2. Monday, March 20th
1. Plagiarism is ___Fill in the blank_______________ A. To attribute a comment to someone. C. To pretend to know things that you don't really know. B. To make up information & pretend it is true. D. To steal or pass off the ideas/words of 1another as your own. 2. When presenting a fact that is NOT common knowledge, always _________________. Ex: Is it common knowledge that annually there are 40,000 toilet-related injuries in the United States?! 3. Resist the temptation to __________________from websites. Take notes in your own words instead, and use quotation marks or highlight direct quotations in your notes. 4. Use ________________credible sources so all your information does not come from one place. When you synthesize ideas from many sources, you are more likely to understand the subject and be able to come up with ___________________.

3. TUESDAY- Deciding How to Cite
1. When writing about an idea, make clear ________________it is.
2. Get help! When in doubt about whether you are plagiarizing something, ask ____________________. If you need assistance citing a source, use __________________________.
EXAMPLE: A New York Times journalist has noted that the insurance industry would cover people with pre-existing conditions if the government required everyone to have insurance (Sack 4).
3. The in-text citation includes the _________________ and _________________ in parenthesis at the end of the sentence.
4. If the author of the source is not provided, use ____________________________ instead.

4. WEDNESDAY- Citing Paraphrasing
EXAMPLE: One theory suggests that a person can learn to associate a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus resulting in a conditioned stimulus response (Pavlov 101). For example, hearing my grandma ring the dinner bell always makes my brother salivate. 1. When writing about someone else’s ideas, always __________________. 2. _________ Do you need to cite a source when paraphrasing information using your own words? A. Only if the author asked to be cited. C. Yes, always. B. No, never. D. It depends on how much paraphrasing you do. SOURCE: “Aquifer drawdown, or overdrafting, and the pumping of fossil water increases the total amount of water in the hydrosphere.” EXAMPLE OF PARAPHRASE: Excessive extraction of ground water and water from water- bearing rock is contributing to the rising sea level (Egghead 65). 3. When paraphrasing, use completely _____________ wording & always _____________________. 4. If something is paraphrased in your own words, you should not use _______________________________.

5. THURSDAY- Citing Exact Words
EXAMPLE: Bruno Mars was so right when he sang, “Today I don’t feel like doing anything/ I just wanna lay in my bed/ Don’t feel like picking up my phone/ So just leave a message at the tone/ Cause today I swear I’m not doing anything.”
1. When using someone else’s exact words, use ____________________.
2. Place quotations around this source: As one might imagine, Stegner was not in favor of the American Dream, or at least not the materialistic dream of status and possessions (Benson 10).
Benson, Jackson. Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work. New York: Viking, Print.
3. The author of the source above is _______________________.
EXAMPLE: When my grandfather died, all the members of my family – men and women alike – wept openly. We have never been ashamed to cry. As Ashley Montagu writes in The American Way of Life, “to be human is to weep” (248). I am sure we are more human, and in better mental and physical health, because we are able to express our feelings without artificial restraints.
4. If the author is mentioned in a signal phrase, then only include the _________________________ in parenthesis.

6. Practice Labeling MLA Citations: Label the parts of the citation in the spaces.
Book:
Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford: Oxford UP, Print.
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Journal:
Kinkaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo 24.2 (Spring 2001): Web.
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Article:
Revkin, Andrew C. “Clinton on Climate Change.” The New York Times. 17 May Accessed 29 July Web.
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