Assignment 16: Plagiarism

These days, the Internet has makes it SO easy to find information on all sorts of subjects.  It has also made copying and pasting that information into class assignments a snap.   Unfortunately, copying and pasting words from the Internet (or books, magazines, etc.) is considered plagiarism.  Plagiarism is stealing other people’s ideas without giving them credit.  The only way to avoid plagiarizing is to give credit to the person or place you found the information.  Look at the slideshow below for more information.

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Finally,  answer the following questions in your blog:

1.  Give an example of when YOU (yes, you) plagiarized and explain what you could have done differently.

2.  Go to Techbrarian’s Student Blogs page and find a quote from your favorite student blogger.  Copy and paste the quote into your blog.  Next, go to the citation machine.  Put in the information they ask to generate a citation for that quote.  Copy and paste the result into your blog below the quote.  Here’s a tutorial:

 

3.  Here are 3 quotes.  Plug each one in (one at a time) and write which are plagiarized and how you know:

I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

My life is like a gigantic piece of beef jerky.  Hard to get through, but worth every moment.

I heard that your dreams came true. Guess she gave you things, I didn’t give to you.