Plagiarism...only 2 yes or no ?'s...pleeeeeeease help!?

Question

i hav 2 questions on plagarism and these r the directions:

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:

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

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

please HELP!!!

Answer 1

Quotes must be properly noted, but if you nees to leave out a phrase...just replace it with the dots.

Answer 2

A citation is to show the reader where something came from so she or he can check it out--rather like Gretel and Hansel's trail of pebbles.

If your readers should or probably will know the source, it is considered common knowledge. There is no sense of citing something that everyone probably would know--is there now?

For a typical high school paper, a good rule of thumb is that if the same piece of information can be found in three or more sources, it's common knowledge and need not be cited.

Of course, all of this depends on what your teacher has said. Therefore, there is no way anyone can answer your question.

Answer 3

Situation 1:  No, not if it is common knowledge.  If you have researched this and are using what you have found to bolster up your argument, then cite the reference.

Situation 2:  Yes.

Any time you directly quote another source in your written work, you need to reference the quote.  If you leave out some of the quote, you need to indicate that too.

Here is the rule:

You might also alter a quotation if you want to leave out parts of a quoted passage because it is long and some of the material is not relevant to your work. All omissions (or ellipsis) should be marked with ellipsis points. Use three ellipsis points for omissions of a few words, but less than a full sentence. Use four points to indicate the omission of a full sentence or more, or when the elided material concludes a sentence.

Lincoln's address emphasizes the need to work "with malice towards none . . . to . . . achieve and    cherish a just and lasting peace."

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/writing/W...

Answer 4

1.  if quotes from elsewhere then cite it: if not, then no need.

2.  Cite the quotes. For any part left out substitute with ellipsis (three dots eg ...)

Answer 5

How did you know that many people in your discipline belong to the organization? Did you get their enrollment numbers from them? Then cite it. If if is common sense, such as "all lawyers belong to the bar association", then no cite is required.

As for the quote, that is ALWAYS, ALWAYS cited. there are two ways to use a quote, first, if it is short, you put in the paper Jon Doe said "blah blah" (Doe, p. 5). If it is a quote longer then one type line you would inset it from the margin by a tab of 1" on both sides, and type and cite like below:

    "blah blah yada yada yap yap togo boo hiss snack spit"

                                               (Doe, p. 5)

If the quote is long, and you can leave out words without changing the author's intent, you can put in ... to represent a space. However, you must still cite.

The rule is: If you did not think up something strictly from your own head without help from a book, magazine, the 'net, ect. you must cite. It is better to over cite then be called  cheat and commit plagerism.

If you are leaving out words, but

Answer 6

Yes, you should document your source.  If you are doing a direct quote with parts left out, you just use a . . . to show that parts were left out, e.g.  "The president said that he  . . . bla, bla, bla."

However, if you are paraphrasing the article, you still give credit to the source, i.e. footnote or end note, but you don't use the quotation marks.