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Offline RationalThought110

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Plagiarism
« on: November 13, 2007, 09:30:50 PM »
I have to give a paragraph summary of an article and then give an analysis of how the event(s) in it will affect things. 

Databases like ProQuest already provide a summary.  So is it wrong to use some of the same content in a summary that a database like proquest uses? 
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Offline Eliezer Ben Avraham

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2007, 09:34:19 PM »
Quote from: RationalThought110 on November 13, 2007, 09:30:50 PM
I have to give a paragraph summary of an article and then give an analysis of how the event(s) in it will affect things. 

Databases like ProQuest already provide a summary.  So is it wrong to use some of the same content in a summary that a database like proquest uses? 
just be sure to use different wording and sentence structure.
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Offline Dr. Dan

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2007, 11:47:04 PM »
plagerism is bad...mmmkay? They can fail you out of class if you get caught..mmkay?  And getting expelled is bad..mmkay? It's bad to be expelled...mmmkay..
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2007, 12:03:12 AM »
Darn, I thought this was a thread about Martin Luther King Jr.  ;)  The best and easiest way to get around this is simply to quote/state your source.  No problems there.  Every author does it... :)
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2007, 12:05:19 AM »
Quote from: dannycookie57 on November 13, 2007, 11:47:04 PM
plagerism is bad...mmmkay? They can fail you out of class if you get caught..mmkay?  And getting expelled is bad..mmkay? It's bad to be expelled...mmmkay..

Note that mmmkey is different than mmm-hmm :-)
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2007, 12:11:19 AM »
Quote from: dannycookie57 on November 13, 2007, 11:47:04 PM
plagerism is bad...mmmkay? They can fail you out of class if you get caught..mmkay?  And getting expelled is bad..mmkay? It's bad to be expelled...mmmkay..

Cookie boy:  Don't be so saracastic.  He's just asking a question. mmmmmkayyyyy
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Offline MassuhDGoodName

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2007, 12:28:07 AM »
Just put an asterisk at the end crediting the source of your material, and you won't have to worry.

p.s.--never seemed to hurt Senator Joseph Biden's career!   :::D
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2007, 12:42:16 AM »
Quote from: RationalThought110 on November 13, 2007, 09:30:50 PM
I have to give a paragraph summary of an article and then give an analysis of how the event(s) in it will affect things. 

Databases like ProQuest already provide a summary.  So is it wrong to use some of the same content in a summary that a database like proquest uses? 

Its like using any major referencing footnote and acknowledge and site for source its not  plagiarism . Exactly the same way you would write any report of Uni or Collage.

But if you now the events, then doing your own work is better of course.

 
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