1.
Last
summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the
rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate
pizza at Gino's East.
This does not need to be cited, as it is a first
person’s experience.
2.
Americans
want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice,
ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody.
This statement should be cited as it appears to
be from another source other than the writers, and it is stating opinion about
other than himself.
According to (provide the source) Americans want ....yada yada yada ;o)
3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think
their teachers assign too much homework.
The writer states his
opinion (not requiring citing) but put in a statistic that may be common knowledge.
Since, it is only one sentence. I will go with, not cited, assuming that 57% is
common knowledge. The author could have said “over half” instead of giving a
statistic.
3.
Martin
Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a surfacy
type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal
with root causes.
4.
Needs
to be cited, it is a summary of the above article. Author could paraphrase, and
add citation.
5. Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's
"white power structure" left African-Americans there "no
alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham
Jail" para. 5).
This one is good. It introduces the author, as well as citing the
quote from from the article.
5.
In
"Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy
saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in
Birmingham, your statement fails to express a similar concern for the
conditions that brought about the demonstrations."
Needs to be cited; because of use of direct quotes to an article.
Introducing the author is not enough here.
I would add the page numbers behind the quote.
7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the
ocean.
This one is fine.
8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for
peaceful meetings.
The statement needs to be cited. The statement implies the author is speaking
for others without proof, and referring to himself.
I think Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather
for a peaceful meeting.
Plagiarism Summary: Students need to be aware that improper
citing still equals plagiarism, it is very important to properly use the rules
of citation. Any use of anyone’s intellectual material without acknowledgement is
plagiarism. The rule of thumb is if you did not create it, give credit to the
source that did. You don’t need to cite your own ideas and experiences, as that
is a primary source. If you summarize an
idea of someone else’s it needs to be quoted. Always cite any statistics, charts,
tables and graphs. Same goes for images,
photos, or graphics that are not yours.
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