1. Plagiarism How Not to Do a Really Bad Thing POS 4734 (Martinez)

2. Don’t Plagiarize! “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own” “use a created production without crediting the source” “to commit literary theft …” Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary

3. Original text In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. This sentence appeared in Iyengar, Shanto, Mark D. Peters, and Donald R. Kinder. 1982. Experimental Demonstrations of the 'Not-So-Minimal' Consequences of the News. American Political Science Review 76 (4): 848-858 at 855.

4. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else.

5. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Plagiarism; the submission is a word-for-word duplicate of the original text.

6. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission “In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else.” (Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982, 855)

7. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission “In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else.” (Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982, 855) Okay, if necessary; the submission is a word-for-word duplicate of the original text, but the text is quoted and properly cited.

8. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. (Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982, 855)

9. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. (Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982, 855) Plagiarism; the text is properly cited, but the submission is a word-for- word duplicate of the original text. The author stole the original’s words.

10. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder (1982) find a strong agenda-setting effect of television news, and suggest that the media also play an important role in telling voters which candidates deserve their attention.

11. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder (1982) find a strong agenda-setting effect of television news, and suggest that the media also play an important role in telling voters which candidates deserve their attention. Okay; the submission is in the author’s own words, and it credits the source of the idea.

12. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission A candidate for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discovers that he is not going to be taken seriously by anybody else.

13. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission A candidate for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discovers that he is not going to be taken seriously by anybody else. Plagiarism; the source is not credited for the idea, and the structure of the submitted sentence parallels the structure of the original with many of the same words.

14. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission A candidate for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discovers that he is not going to be taken seriously by anybody else. (Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982, 855)

15. Plagiarism or not? Original In a parallel way, candidates for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discover that neither are they taken seriously by anybody else. Submission A candidate for political office not taken seriously by news organizations quickly discovers that he is not going to be taken seriously by anybody else. (Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982, 855) Plagiarism; the source is credited for the idea, but the structure of the submitted sentence parallels the structure of the original with many of the same words.

16. References List Book Kingdon, John W. 1973. Congressmen's Voting Decisions. New York: Harper and Row.

17. References List Article Martinez, Michael D. 1997. Don't Tax You, Don't Tax Me, Tax the Fella Behind the Tree: Partisan and Turnout Effects on Tax Policy. Social Science Quarterly 78 (4): 895-906.

18. References List Article Martinez, Michael D. 1997. Don't Tax You, Don't Tax Me, Tax the Fella Behind the Tree: Partisan and Turnout Effects on Tax Policy. Social Science Quarterly 78 (4): 895-906.

19. References List Book Chapter Converse, Philip E. 1964. The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics. In David E. Apter (ed.) Ideology and Discontent. New York: Free Press.