Bellringer: Friday

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Bellringer Friday

• Put your vocabulary homework in the basket.
• Pick up the Article of the Week from the table.
  These are not due until August 19. We will go
  over the example Article first today.
• Reminder Research questions 5 are due
  Monday. You should also be doing research over
  the weekend to start collecting articles/
  information for your paper.

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Plagiarism A.K.A.What NOT To Do in Academic
Work
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What is Plagiarism?

• Plagiarism is the act of using another person's
  ideas or expressions in your writing without
  giving credit to the source.
• In other words, plagiarism is copying information
  and not giving the author credit for it.

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What is Plagiarism?

• To plagiarize is to give the impression that you
  have written or thought of something that you
  have borrowed from someone else.
• It is illegal, unethical, and if discovered, will
  result in a loss of credit for the project and
  perhaps a failure for the course.

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What is Plagiarism?

• It is never all right to copy directly from
  another writer without putting the passage in
  quotation marks and identifying the author.

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Plagiarism can take several forms

• Copying any direct quotation from your source
  material without providing quotation marks or
  crediting your source
• Paraphrasing of a borrowed idea without
  documenting the source of the idea
• Copying another paper, either from someone else
  or your own paper from a previous assignment

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You may avoid plagiarism by

• Recognizing borrowed material with an
  introduction and citing the source page number
  this is called using in-text citations
• Summarizing material by writing in your style and
  language and citing the source of the information
  
• Enclosing quotation marks around all material
  that is directly quoted and citing the source for
  the information

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Here are Some Steps You Can Take

• 1. Reread the original passage until you
  understand it. Mark important parts.
• 2. Turn the original over, and write your version
  on a separate paper WITHOUT looking at the
  original.
• 3. Check your version with the original to make
  sure that your version correctly expresses the
  information in a new way.

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Here are Some Steps You Can Take

• 4. Use quotation marks to identify any phrases
  you have borrowed exactly from the source.
• 5. Record the source (including the page) on your
  paper so that you can credit it.

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What are the Differences Between Quoting,
Paraphrasing and Summarizing?

• Quoting
• Example The fact that Americans are getting
  heavier is hard to deny the day after
  Thanksgiving. But holiday binges have little to
  do with obesity. Americas weight problem is
  directly related to everyday choices that people
  make and the circumstances they live in, stated
  Dr. Benjamin Reed (4).

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What are the Differences Between Quoting,
Paraphrasing and Summarizing?

• Paraphrasing
• Example Dr. Benjamin Reed from the New York
  Times explained in a recent article that peoples
  choices of food has more to do with Americas
  obesity problem than simply overeating around the
  holidays (4).

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What are the Differences Between Quoting,
Paraphrasing and Summarizing?

• Summarizing
• Example In a New York Times article, Dr.
  Benjamin Reed described how choices influence
  Americas problem with obesity more than
  overeating (4).

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Reading Quiz

• 1. What is the number one food allergy?
• 2. What is the most common food allergy among
  children?
• 3. From 1997 to 2011 food allergies rose by
  _____.
• 4. List two common mild allergic reactions.
• 5. In the article, our immune system is
  metaphorically compared to what?