How to Avoid Plagiarism!!

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How to Avoid Plagiarism!! And Lots of Other
Things Youre Just Dying to Know
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Rule 1 You must give credit to the person or
source from which you borrowed an idea or
directly copied a passage. If you dont, youre
committing intellectual THEFT!!
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Rule 2 Your Works Cited page determines what
goes in parentheses. Thats so your reader can
look at the Works Cited page, quickly find your
alphabetized entries, and get all the publication
information he needs.
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Rule 3 The period ALWAYS goes AFTER the
parenthetical documentation, unless its a long
quote. Then, the period goes before the
parenthetical documentation. Example Santa
Claus proclaims that The twelve days of
Christmas are a joke (Zebras Unveiled 12).
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Rule 4 Do NOT put a comma, the word page, an
abbreviation for page, or anything else between
the last name and the page number. If no page
number is available, simply put the LAST name in
parentheses. Note If you have two titles by
the same author, place the last name in
parentheses, followed by a comma, the title of
the work, and page number(s).
Ex. (Smellypants, I Love
Skunks 23).
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Rule 5 If your Works Cited entry has no
authors name, shorten the title of the article,
web site, etc., and place it in parentheses.
Whatever words/names you used to alphabetize your
Works Cited page are the words/names you use for
your parenthetical documentation. Or, more
simply, the word or words that come first in your
Works Cited entry are the word or words that go
in your documentation. Remember Dont count
articles like the, a, or an when
alphabetizing your entries AND when documenting
sources.
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Rule 6 If you refer to the title of the work
and/or author in your lead-in to the quoted
material, you dont need to include it in your
parenthetical documentation. Just put the page
number. See example under Long Quotes below.
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Okay, lets pretend youre using the following
information in your research paper. Try your
hand at parenthetical documentation using the
Works Cited entries I give you from our class
example.
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Example One interesting story states that in
May 2000, a save-the-whales activist was forced
to call off his sailing voyage across the Pacific
Ocean, which he had hoped would call attention to
his cause. The reason was that his 60-foot boat
was damaged by two passing whales (Grogan 23).
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Example Another interesting event occurred in
June of 2000, when an 87-year-old man dropped
dead while standing in line at a government
office in Bogotá, Colombia. His reason for
visiting the office was to apply for a government
certificate to prove he was still alive (I Love
Skunks).
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Poison oak is not an oak, and poison ivy is not
an ivy. Both are members of the cashew family.
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Found in the piece by Tim Wall on page 15.
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However, it is extremely interesting to note that
Poison oak is not an oak and poison ivy is not
an ivy. Both are members of the cashew family
(Wall 15).
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Harold is a strange young man, rich, spoiled, and
fascinated with the concept of death.
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Found in Charles Q. Chois piece on p. 33.
Refer to the authors name in the lead-in.
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In his analysis of Harold and Maude, Charles Q.
Choi notes that Harold is a strange young man,
rich, spoiled, and fascinated with the concept of
death (33).
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Trepanation, also known as drilling holes in your
head, is believed to be the oldest surgical
practice in history.
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Found in the piece by Karin Laub and Diaa Hadid
on page A1.
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One ancient practice, which seems rather
barbaric, is Trepanation, also known as drilling
holes in your head, and it is believed to be
the oldest surgical practice in history (Laub
and Hadid A1).
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The Wok began as a Bronze Age Mongolian helmet
that doubled as a cooking pan.
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Found in Why Do Balloons Float Up?
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People who enjoy stir-fry cooking may be shocked
to discover that The Wok began as a Bronze Age
Mongolian helmet that doubled as a cooking pan
(Why Do Balloons Float Up?).
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Quotes within Quotes More Than One Work by the
Same Author Thirty percent of Americans avoid
public restrooms, citing fear of germs as the
primary reason. (Found in Darth Vaders My Heart
Has Been Hijacked)
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A recent study found that Thirty percent of
Americans avoid public restrooms, citing fear of
germs as the primary reason (Vader, My Heart
Has Been Hijacked).
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Francis Scott Key, author of the United States
national anthem and the words, Oer the land of
the free, was a slave owner. (Info. presented
in my personal interview with Darth Vader)
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One of the horrors in American history is that
Francis Scott Key, author of the United Statess
national anthem and the words, Oer the land of
the free, was a slave owner (Vader, Love and
Other Diseases).
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One of the horrors Darth Vader spoke of was that
Americas revered Francis Scott Key, author of
the United Statess national anthem and the
words, Oer the land of the free, was a slave
owner (Love and Other Diseases).
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Other Sources Quoted in A Source The future
aint what it used to be. (In Marley and Me,
Yogi Berra is quoted as saying this.)
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Yogi Berra, the ever-wise philosophizing baseball
player, lamented what he perceived to be a dismal
future. In fact, he mourned that it aint
what it used to be (qtd. in Grogan 22).
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I know the human being and fish can coexist
peacefully.
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In I Love Skunks A Smelly Affair, George Bush
is quoted as saying this.
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George Bush, in one of his brilliant speeches on
the environment, stated, I know the human
being and fish can coexist peacefully (qtd.
in I Love Skunks A Smelly Affair).
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Alteration of Sources The Ellipsis A Tampa,
Florida, burglar who decided to rob a 24-hour
convenience store didnt know the store was open
24 hours. He cut a hole in the roof, and then
fell through onto the coffee pot just as a police
officer was buying some coffee.
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Presented in Man on Wire.
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One burglar's luck ran out when he decided to
rob a 24-hourstore and didnt know it was
open 24 hours. He then fell through onto the
coffee pot as a police officer was buying coffee
(Man on Wire).
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Perhaps one of the most unfortunate crooks was a
man who decided to rob a 24-hour convenience
store but didnt know the store was open 24
hours. He cut a hole in the roof, and then fell
throughjust as a police officer was buying some
coffee (Man on Wire).
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Alteration of Sources The Brackets The
blast was heard all the way to Canada. The
energy released was equal to 27,000
Hiroshima-sized bombs dropped at the rate of one
per second for nine hours. (Referring to the Mt.
St. Helens eruption of 1980)
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Found in Its a Beautiful Day in the
Neighborhood.
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Scientists report that The blast of the 1980
eruption of Mt. St. Helens was heard all the way
to Canada. The energy the volcano released was
equal to 27,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs dropped at
the rate of one per second for nine hours
(Zilch, et al. 244).
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Long Quotes If a quote runs to more than four
lines in your paper, set it off from your text
beginning a new line, indenting one inch (2 tabs)
from the left margin, and typing it
double-spaced, without any quotation marks. A
colon generally sets up the quote. Parenthetical
documentation follows the last line of the
quotation. The period comes before the
documentation. This is the only exception to the
rule.
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Example At the conclusion of William Goldings
Lord of the Flies, Ralph and the other boys
realize the horror of their actions
The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He
gave himself up to them now for
the first time on the island great,
shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench
his whole body. His voice rose under
the black smoke before the burning
wreckage of the island and infected by
that emotion, the other little boys began to
shake and sob too. (186) And then the
rest of your text goes back to the original left
margin. Neato, huh? And you just keep writing
your little research paper and thinking to
yourself, Wow! I could be swinging in a hammock
on some Hawaiian island right now! See? Thats
what the long quote thing looks like.
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Okay, now its your turn. Heres a long quote
for you A person with short thumbs is stubborn
a person with long thumbs has a strong sense of
purpose. Straight thumbs indicate generosity
crooked thumbs indicate selfishness. If your
thumbs are hairy, but the rest of your fingers
arent, youre a genius. If all of your fingers
are hairy, youre bad-tempered. (Found in NATO
strikes Gadhafi Offices on p. A6)
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A recent article in The Arizona Republic
discussed the fact that scholars have noticed a
relationship between a persons hands and his or
her personality A person with
short thumbs is stubborn a person with long
thumbs has a strong sense of
purpose. Straight thumbs indicate
generosity crooked thumbs indicate selfishness.
If your thumbs are hairy, but the
rest of your fingers arent,
youre a genius. If all of your fingers are
hairy, youre bad tempered.
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While some serial killers rely on violence and
the element of surprise to trap their victims,
others, like Ted Bundy, use a much more sinister
means of attack their charisma. In his book
Serial Killers, Tom Smith claims that when the
alluring Ted Bundy kidnapped two ladies from the
crowded recreation area of Lake Sammamish, his
killing reached its climax in a truly heinous
way. Rather than brute force, Bundy manipulated
his victims with his dashing magnetism and smooth
cunning, a technique that obviously worked well,
since he was able to swipe and kill two girls in
one day. Furthermore, his bold arrogance was
quite obvious in his actually telling people his
real name (194), disbelieving that he could
possibly be caught. Even more lethal than a
savage who uses force to destroy his victims is a
wicked beast like Bundy who uses enchanting
deception and the façade of good looks as his
tools of destruction.
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