PLZZZZZ HELP!!!! PLAGIARISM...... only 8 questions...?

Question

the questions below has to be decided whether or not they are running the risk of plagiarizing. Answer Yes if you would need to document, or if it is not necessary to provide quotation marks or a citation, answer No. If you do need to give the source credit in some way, explain how you would handle it. If not, explain why.

situations:

1. You are using an editorial from your school's newspaper with which you disagree.

2. You use some information from a source without ever quoting it directly.

3. You have no other way of expressing the exact meaning of a text without using the original source verbatim.

4. You want to begin your paper with a story that one of your classmates told about her experiences in Bosnia.

5. The quote you want to use is too long, so you leave out a couple of phrases.

6. You really like the particular phrase somebody else made up, so you use it.

7. You are writing new insights about your own experiences.

8. You mention that many people in your discipline belong to a certain organization.

can sum1 pleeeease answer these questions.....

Answer 1

It is very important to understand what plagiarism is before you attempt to answer your questions. As I teach in a university in the UK, I have seen students from India initially struggle to understand this concept because back home as we have been learning by rote and reproducing text book passages in our written work.

Plagiarism is when you are asked to submit a coursework assignment and end up copying from a book word for word without citation ( that means referencing or acknowledging the author)(answers question 2). Harvard referencing is the system commonly used here. US universities use other systems such as APA etc. Referencing is important because anyone who reads your essay will know where you have got your ideas from and how you have critiqued existing work. The reader can then look up the original work for reference.

Even changing a few words here and there using the thesaurus in MS Word still means the idea is not yours and you have snitched it from some author's work. If a student thinks Google is great to help roll out a super assignment - let him think again! It is the best tool for the lecturer to catch out the culprit and then .... murky waters and deep trouble! UK universities have strict rules and can even expel a student for plagiarism. The bottom line is reference or provide a citation for everything that is not your idea or concept. The only things you don't need to reference will probably be your own experiences (which answers question 7). Even common and general knowledge need not be referenced.

When you quote word for word from a book or journal article ,it should be placed within quotation marks (answers question 3). Remember that you can't copy more than 4-5 lines at a time. For question 5, if you want to leave out some phrases then you substitute them with an array of dots so that the reader knows that something was left out. It is always better to learn how to paraphrase or write the same concept in your own words and not forget to reference as it is still not your idea.

For question 8 , you have to provide the statistics and it will be primary data as you will have checked out the number of people.

I will let you work out the rest for yourself. Look at .ac.uk or .edu sites for more on this concept.

Best wishes

Fareena

Answer 2

1. y if you quote it directly

2. n

3. y

4. y if you qoute it directly

5.y you fill in the blanks with an ellipsis (...)

6.y

7. n, you're quoting yourself

8. Depends on where you get the info...if you know, then no. If you have to look it up then you must cite the source.

Citations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citations