{"id":1160,"date":"2012-02-16T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2012-02-16T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:19:28","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Example 1: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~ He found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 2: Plagiarize the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~The value-added scores also change between years. A teacher who receives a specific ranking one year is likely to get a different ranking the next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 3: Plagiarize the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, and include a citation. Even though you cited it, paraphrasing too closely is still plagiarism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~There will always be a degree of uncertainty in these rankings, some of which will reveal \u201creal\u201d performance changes (Ravitch, 270-271).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 4: Properly paraphrase from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, and include a citation to the original source.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University, generated a study where he investigated the teacher evaluation systems in New York and Houston. His research led him to find that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points (Ravitch, 270-271)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 5: Properly paraphrase from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, add a direct quote, and include a citation to the original source.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~Based off Corcoran\u2019s findings on teacher evaluations, Ravitch draws the conclusion that a teacher whose ranked in the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> percentile might have peers that rank\u201c\u2026anywhere between the 15<sup>th<\/sup> percentile and the 71<sup>st<\/sup> percentile\u201d (Ravitch, 270-271).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example 1: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. ~ He found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points. Example 2: Plagiarize the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word. ~The value-added scores also change between &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}