Plagiarism

Safe Practices: An Exercise

1. Correct and requires no citation as it is a personal experience.

2. If the information is taken from a source a citation would be needed. If by chance this was taken from an online resource or book of some source a citation would defiantly be needed telling where the information is located in correlation to the bibliography and the location of the info gathered in the bibliography.

3. There is absolutely no citation of where the statistic came from. Also I would rewrite the citation by putting  "According to ______, "57%  of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework."(___)

4. This seems to be a good paraphrase as long as long as there are parentheses at the beginning and end of the paraphrase.

5.  Another great paraphrase of the passage to me this one looks fine the way it is and no improvements would be necessary.

6. This info has no citing as to where it would be located to in the bibliography or to the starting work.  A parentheses  at the end of the paraphrase with (King, para 5) i would believe would suffice to citing the source.

7. This info would not need to be cited as it is personal info.

8. I'm not sure if this would be needed to be cited as it seems common sense to me as I am American and know my rights. If this were to be sent to other countries or something along those lines and i was not sure if the receiver would know the bill of rights as i do.



By reading the resources on plagiarism from the Clark online library, I believe i have improved my skills of documenting resources and noticing plagiarism. I feel like the idea of COP: Collect, Organize, Punctuate is going to stick in my head as i cite sources from now on. The concept is very easy to grasp and understand and lays out a great guide map on where to start and end. If i were to practice using COP more (as i believe i will in this class), The use of citations in schooling and academics will be a piece of cake from here on out.