CM 107:College Composition I

Unit 4 Seminar:

Plagiarism, APA, Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Quoting

Christine Danelski, PhD

Any questions/issues from Unit 3 before we begin?

On the Unit 3 Discussion Board?On the Unit 3 Project?

Remember it is not too late to turn in Unit 3 assignments!

Unit 4 Assignments: Reading:

The Kaplan Guide for Successful Writing: Chapter 11 “Research” and Chapter 12 “Basic Citation Guidelines”

Vanity Fair article “Shattered Glass” on real life plagiarism. This article has seven pages.

The scenario section has three pages of text about college writing.

On page 3 of the scenario webpage there is a link to a Writing Center Links article: “3.4 An Introduction to APA Citation.”

Please read them all!

Unit 4 Assignments: Discussion Board about the Stephen Glass plagiarism case. Respond to the following questions:

If you had to choose one factor that influenced Glass’s behavior at The New Republic, what would you pick? Explain why this is the straw that broke his honesty.

How could these loopholes have been avoided completely if editors had been more careful with Glass’s work? How much responsibility do you think falls on the editors?

Do you think The New Republic will ever regain its reputation? Why or why not?

As you refer to the Vanity Fair article, experiment with using the appropriate APA citations!

What is plagiarism?

What is plagiarism and how can it be avoided?

Styles of citation- APA, MLA, ASA, AMA. We use APA at Kaplan University.

Use reliable sources for citations.

Which are reliable references for an informative essay on diabetes?

A Wikipedia article?

A Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia article?

Information from your friend’s blog?

Information from a governmental agency website such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?

Information from the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)?

An article from your local newspaper?

An endocrinologist whom you interview?

Your mother?

Reliable sources are:Books, government reports, surveys, journal articles, documentaries, nonprofit publications, newspaper or magazine articles

Noncommercial websites: .edu, .gov and .org

Authored by those with professional credentials and who are affiliated with reputable organizations

Timely – recent, published within the last five years.

Why are citations required in two places?

Citations are required in two places – as in-text citation and references page citation.

What is the difference between the information given in the text and on the references page?

The Basics of In-text Citations:A Summary

Use a parenthetical citation:Stephen Glass went to a high school that emphasized high achievement and inventiveness (Bassinger, 1998).

Or use in introductory phrase:According to Buzz Bassinger (1998), Stephen Glass went to a high school that emphasized high achievement and inventiveness.

What is paraphrasing?

What is paraphrasing and why is it necessary? What is the correct way to paraphrase?

Why should we use more paraphrasing than direct quotes in our papers?

Let us get some practice paraphrasing.

 

Paraphrase this quotation from “Shattered Glass.”

“When fact-checking the stories of others, Glass established himself as the Darth Vader of Detail. No inaccuracy, however small, escaped him, and he wasn’t above warning editors of certain writers’ sloppiness” (Bassinger, 1998).

We integrate quotes into our writing by using a signal phrase or sentence to introduce our quotations.

Example:Glass was not the only professional plagiarizing. Janet Cooke, Nik Cohn, and Patricia Smith all worked for major news outlets and were caught or admitted to plagiarism over the last thirty years. According to Bassinger (1998), “none of these journalists approached the sheer calculation of Glass’s deceptions.” Glass had brought plagiarism to a new level.

Short quotations

Use a block quote format for quotes 40 words or longer.

Example (71 words):

Glass was not the only professional plagiarizing:

Janet Cooke had done it in 1980 in a Pulitzer Prize winning piece for The Washington Post. Nik Cohn, 21 years after the fact, blithely admitted to having made up most of the New York story that inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. More recently, Boston Globe columnist Patricia Smith was fired for making up parts of her columns. But none of these journalists approached the sheer calculation of Glass’s deceptions. (Bassinger, 1998)

Glass had brought plagiarism to a new level.

Long quotations

Reference page citations (full citation):

Example:

References

Bassinger, B. (1998). Shattered Glass. Vanity Fair. Retrieved from www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1998/09/bissinger199809?currentPage=all

Any remaining questions and concerns about APA citations?Summarizing?

Paraphrasing?

Direct quotations?

Reference page citations?

Anytime material from another source is used in a research project, the source must be given proper credit in the form of in-text and reference page citations!

If there is time:

Go to Writing Center Links>

3.4 An Introduction to APA Citation

Open the pdf. file

Looking ahead to Unit 5:

In this unit we will do the following:

Viewing: Review the J. Campbell interview about the hero’s journey from Unit 1.

Reading: The Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing, Chapter 18 “Understanding Grading” & Chapter 20 “Working with Microsoft Word 2007.”

“Million Dollar Murray” by Malcolm Gladewell from The New Yorker.

”‘From Homeless to Harvard’ - Liz Murray's Story” by Al Siebert, PhD

Looking ahead to Unit 5:

In this unit we will do the following:

Discussion Board:Think about the distinct points of view in these two articles. Both Murrays face the same problem, but their perspectives are worlds apart.

Consider this: how would Liz Murray define homelessness versus Murray Barr’s definition of homelessness?

What can you identify that made their seemingly similar paths diverge? Support your ideas with references back to reading materials and video to back up your claims.

Thanks for attending live seminar!

Remember all work is due Tuesday at 11:59 pm.

You can reach instructors via email or AIM. If you are my student or have a question about this seminar, chat with me before or after class via AIM: CDanelski2. My email is cdanelski@ kaplan.edu

Time management is the key to success!