plagiarism exercises - Luzerne County Community College

PLAGIARISM EXERCISES
(Pearson/Longman)
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM (1) Provide clear attribution of outside sources; this can be done with
parenthetical citations, lead-in or signal phrases, or a combination
thereof. Attributions may contain the name of the author and that
individual's professional affiliation or the name of the organization that
provided the information for your paper. Introductory phrases such as
"Sheila Costas observes" or "According to the President's Initiative on
Race" clearly identify your source and incorporate the information smoothly
into your paper. To learn more about attribution and to test your
knowledge, go to Attribution (2) Identify all words and phrases taken from sources by enclosing them
within quotation marks, unless those words or phrases are commonly used
expressions or clichés. To learn more about quotes and to test your
knowledge, go to Quotation Marks (3) Follow all quotations, paraphrases, and summaries of outside sources
with appropriate and complete citations. You may omit a citation only when
the information that you have included in your attribution is sufficient to
identify the source in your bibliography and no page number is needed.
Citations should immediately follow the material being quoted, paraphrased,
or summarized. To learn more about citations and to test your knowledge, go
to Citation (4) Use your own words and sentence structure when you paraphrase. A
paraphrase should capture a specific idea from a source but must not
duplicate the writer's phrases and words. To learn more about paraphrasing
and to test your knowledge, go to Paraphrase (5) Be certain that all summaries and paraphrases of your sources are
accurate and objective. You must clearly distinguish your own views and
ideas from those of your sources. To learn more about accurate and
objective representation of sources and to test your knowledge, go to
Loyalty to Source (6) Include all of the sources cited in your paper in the Works Cited list
that follows the body of your paper. Be sure that all of the required
information for each entry is accurate and complete. To learn more about a
References list and to test your knowledge, go to Works Cited (7) Provide documentation for all visual images, charts, and graphs from
printed or electronic sources. Be certain to accurately record the URL for
Internet sources so that your citation will be correct. Images, charts, and
graphs require documentation whether they are "pasted" into your paper as
illustrations or summarized within the text of your paper. To learn more
about documenting visuals and to test your knowledge, go to Citation for
Images
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____ ATTRIBUTION Read the excerpt below and the example of plagiarism that follows it. When
you are familiar with the issue, test your knowledge with the six practice
exercises. ORIGINAL SOURCE
What accounts for the government's ineptitude in safeguarding our privacy
rights? Is privacy regarded by ordinary citizens and public policy makers
as a trivial right unworthy of their attention? Or are we powerless victims
of technology that has stripped away our privacy without our ability to
recognize what was happening? (Spinello 9) Works Cited Spinello, Richard A. "The End of Privacy." America 4 Jan. 1997: 9-13. Example of plagiarism: The greatest threat to privacy may be our failure to recognize that it
is being eroded by the very technology that many regard as beneficial,
particularly the use of computers for commercial transactions. Electronic
money transfers and credit card purchases over the Internet expose
important private information about our finances to unscrupulous hackers.
"[A]re we powerless victims of technology that has stripped away our
privacy without our ability to recognize what was happening?" (9). What's wrong?
There is no lead-in or signal phrase that provides attribution to the
source (in italics), and no author is identified in the citation. Correction: The greatest threat to privacy may be our failure to recognize that it
is being eroded by the very technology that many regard as beneficial,
particularly the use of computers for commercial transactions. Electronic
money transfers and credit card purchases over the Internet expose
important private information about our finances to unscrupulous hackers.
Journalist Richard A. Spinello raises this question when he asks, "[A]re we
powerless victims of technology that has stripped away our privacy without
our ability to recognize what was happening?" (9). Unfortunately, it may be
ignorance, not apathy, that is creating the problem. Or The greatest threat to privacy may be our failure to recognize that it
is being eroded by the very technology that many regard as beneficial,
particularly the use of computers for commercial transactions. Electronic
money transfers and credit card purchases over the Internet expose
important private information about our finances to unscrupulous hackers.
Journalist Richard A. Spinello asks whether we have become "powerless
victims of technology that has stripped away our privacy without our
ability to recognize what was happening" (9). Unfortunately, it may be
ignorance, not apathy, that is creating the problem. What's right?
Both examples provide a lead-in or signal phrase that identifies the
source.
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PRACTICE #1
You have written a research paper on how advertisers use magazines and
other media to guide consumers' choices and have used the following
paragraph from an article that addresses issues related to your subject.
The article is by Eric Haley, a professor in the Department of Advertising
at the University of Tennessee, and Anne Cunningham, a professor in the
Manship School of Communication at Louisiana State University. Before
handing in your paper to your instructor, you realize that you have
neglected to include lead-in or signal phrases or page number citations to
indicate the source of your material. First, read the paragraph from the
original source. Then, correct the excerpts that following by adding the
necessary lead-in or signal phrases and the appropriate page number
citations.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Another way an advertiser can influence magazine content is by requesting
that specific material be included to showcase the marketer's product.
Examples of this practice are product placements and editorial mentions of
the product within editorial content (Haley and Cunningham 176).
Haley, Eric, and Anne Cunningham. "Readers' Perspectives on Advertising's
Influence in Women's Magazines: Thoughts on Two Practices". Mass
Communication & Society 6.2 (2003): 175- 190.
(1) Correct the following excerpt:
Excerpt 1 Buying ads in magazines is an obvious way advertisers bring their
products to the attention of consumers. "Another way an advertiser can
influence magazine content is by requesting that specific material be
included to showcase the marketer's product." (2) Correct the following excerpt:
Excerpt 2 When you read a magazine, you may notice that the pictures
accompanying articles contain recognizable products, including some with
the brand names showing and other whose brand is likely to be familiar to
readers. The pictures are providing "product placements" that act as ads
even though they appear to be parts of the articles. (3) Correct the following excerpt:
Excerpt 3 Advertisers may choose an even more indirect way to get their
products noticed by readers. They can encourage "editorial mentions of the
product within editorial content," so that readers think they are getting
an editor's opinions and ideas when they are actually getting an
advertiser's message.
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----------------------------------------- ANSWERS
(1) Does your response include the following three elements?
1. A lead-in or signal phrase to indicate the source.
2. Quotation marks before and after the quotation.
3. A citation immediately following the quoted material.
Your correction is likely to vary, but here is a possible response:
Buying ads in magazines is an obvious way advertisers bring their products
to the attention of consumers. According to Eric Haley and Anne Cunningham,
"Another way an advertiser can influence magazine content is by requesting
that specific material be included to showcase the marketer's product"
(176).
(2) Does your response include the following three elements?
1. A lead-in or signal phrase to indicate the source.
2. Quotation marks before and after the quotation.
3. A citation immediately following the quoted material.
Your correction is likely to vary, but here is a possible response:
When you read a magazine, you may notice that the pictures accompanying
articles contain recognizable products, including some with the brand names
showing and others whose brand is likely to be familiar to readers. The
pictures are providing what Haley and Cunningham call "product placements"
(176) that act as ads, even though they appear to be parts of the articles.
(3) Does your response include the following three elements?
1. A lead-in or signal phrase to indicate the source.
2. Quotation marks before and after the quotation.
3. A citation immediately following the quoted material.
Your correction is likely to vary, but here is a possible response:
Advertisers may choose an even more indirect way to get their products
noticed by readers. As Eric Haley and Anne Cunningham point out, they can
encourage "editorial mentions of the product within editorial content"
(176), so that read