1. Cite your Source!
Friday, August 10, 2012

2. Agenda Do Now Vocabulary or Survey (20) Citing Sources (30)
Weekly Writing Assignment (15)
Writing Work Time (15)

3. What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is Cheating.
Plagiarism is taking someone else’s WORK, WORDS or IDEAS and passing them off as your own without giving the original owner/author credit.

4. What is Plagiarism? All of the following are considered plagiarism:
turning in someone else's work as your own
copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
failing to put a direct quotation in quotation marks
giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
changing words or paraphrasing of a source without giving credit

5. What are the consequences?
At PCA, plagiarism can result in an F on your assignment, office referral, etc.
Outside of PCA, people who try publish plagiarized works can face lawsuits, loss of employment and reputation.

6. How can you avoid plagiarism?
Cite your sources!!

7. Other Reasons to Cite Your Sources?
Avoid Plagiarism ?

8. Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism
What must be cited?
All statistics, data, figures.
Words AND Ideas:
Direct quotes/words taken from a resource
Ideas taken from a resource, even if summarize, paraphrase, or reword the original source.
Basically, anything that isn’t your own idea in your own words.

9. Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism
Exceptions – Things that don’t need to be cited
Common knowledge that the average, educated reader would know without having to look it up.
Ex. Fact that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, dates of National Holidays, names of famous heroes
When in doubt, cite!

10. Check for Understanding
Do the following have to be cited?
Next Monday, January 16th is Martin Luther King, Jr. day.
Taylor Swift is a popular country music artist.
Within Memphis city limits, an estimated 26.5 percent of residents were living in poverty, up from 26.2 percent in 2009.
My cat Easter is funny, fat, and orange – just like Garfield!s

11. Check for Understanding
Do the following have to be cited?
A direct quote from a book
Information from a web page
A summary in your own words of a magazine article that you read
General information that most people know
Your opinion on current events

12. MLA Citation Rules MLA Citation Rules
MLA = Modern Language Association
Sets common standards/rules regarding how to document resources cited in a piece of writing.
Widely used in schools, universities, and publications across the world, especially in studies of humanities, literature, and language
There are other documentation styles used in science, journalism, etc

13. MLA Citation Rules You must cite your source in two different places:
In-Text Citations: in the actual writing passage when you make reference to the source.
Works Cited/Bibliography: on a separate piece of paper at the end of your paper.

14. Works Cited Page - Book Book Title: The Secret Life of Bees
Book Author: Sue Monk Kidd
City of Publication: New York, NY
Publisher (Publishing Company): Penguin Books
Year of Publication: 2002
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. New York: Penguin Books, Print.
Include the name of the city only, not the state
First line starts at the far left, but all subsequent lines below it are indented

15. Works Cited Page - Book Book Title: The Hunger Games
Book Author: Suzanne Collins
City of Publication: New York, NY
Publisher (Publishing Company): Scholastic Press
Year of Publication: 2008
Author name (last, first). Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, Print.

16. Works Cited Page - Book
Write a Works Cited Page Citation for To Kill a Mockingbird
Author name (last, first). Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Grand Central, Print.

17. In-Text Citation - Book
Much shorter than works cited citations
For books, only include Author last name and Page number
Citation made in parenthesis after the quote
Ex.
In the book The Secret Life of Bees, someone says, “If you need something from somebody always give them a way to hand it to you” (Kidd 38).
In The Hunger Games, Katniss says about Peeta, “The more likeable he is, the more deadly his is” (Collins 128).

18. In-Text Citation - Book
Write an in-text citation for this quote from To Kill a Mockingbird:
“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” - Atticus Finch, on page 144
Atticus Finch said, “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you” (Lee 144)

19. Weekly Writing Assignments
Every Friday, I will give you a writing assignment that will be due the next Friday.
You will be posting your writing assignments to a blog that we create in class next week.
Go to
Refresh your screen to see details about Today’s Writing Assignment

20. Today’s Assignment
Select one of the quotes below, and write a two paragraph response:
Paragraph 1 includes the quote and your opinion/thoughts on the quote
Paragraph 2 tells how you think this quote ties to our classroom theme – “Freedom School Classroom”
I will be looking for proper use of quotation marks and punctuation around quotation marks
You must cite the source of your quote. Use an in-text citation and a works cited section at the bottom of your essay.

21. Quotes
Jem says that the main difference between people’s status in society is “how long their family’s been readin’ and writin’.”
Atticus says “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird…Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

22. Sentence starters… In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus says
In the book To Kill a Mocking bird, Jem says
To me, this quote means
I agree with this quote because
I disagree with this quote because
This quote relates to our classroom theme “Freedom School Classroom” because

23. Homework Due Monday, August 13 Due Friday, August 17 Syllabus
Personal Mission Statement
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Due Friday, August 17
Weekly Writing Assignment on a TKAMB Quote