Avoiding Plagiarism / Incorporating Quotes Meaningfully



Avoiding Plagiarism / Incorporating Quotes Meaningfully

Discuss parameters for using outside sources in your essay. Don’t get bogged down reading a lot of criticism. I want you to stay within the text as your primary source, and I don’t want you to just adopt someone else’s argument. If you would like to quote outside sources on historical context, refute something someone else says, or use a little bit of someone else’s argument, that’s fine. The preference would be that you use any sources as a jumping off point.

Remember to use RELIABLE internet sources. Google Scholar. Page 378 of CW

Discuss Penguin Reading:

• In high school, citing sources is a very low priority, and you might even make a source up to fulfill requirements. In college, this is not a game. Plagiarism does not just mean handing in someone else’s paper or copying something directly from a text. If you rephrase someone’s ideas and don’t cite the source, that’s cheating, and can result in you failing a course or even getting kicked out of college.

• Plagiarism is Plagiarism! It doesn’t matter if you do it inadvertently. Plagiarism is usually inadvertent. You start copying notes, transcribing them into your own words, and you don’t know anymore what’s yours and what’s theirs.

• Take notes carefully, use quotation marks and cite the source right then, even if it is just a web page address that you can go back to later and put in MLA formatting.

• MLA Formatting: quotation is introduced and not just dropped in. Citation goes outside the quotation marks but before the final period. Show example works cited page from one of my papers and some examples throughout.

• Summarizing: You are summing up the major idea. You might summarize an article in a sentence. Then you cite it. When you summarize something, you should not have more than 7 words in a row. If there are more than 7 words in a row, that sentence should be in quotations.

• Paraphrasing: No more than 7 words in a row. You put it in your own words, at about the same length as the original. Citing the source is not an excuse to plagiarize!

Four Points of Incorporating Quotations Meaningfully:

• Consider how the info relates to your paper

• Introduce the quotation

• Explain how you interpret the text you are borrowing. If the quote is 6 lines, your discussion of it should be six lines.

• Be accurate and detailed.

Different Ways to Quote Something: (Mrs. Dalloway Paper)

• Paraphrase

• Paraphrase using quote snippets

• Long quotation (must discuss it for the same amount of time). The last thing you ever want to do is end a paragraph with a four line quote, and then not discuss it. You can’t just plop things in.

• Using an idea

Spend any remaining time discussing the structure of the Mrs. Dalloway Paper.

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