{"id":1180,"date":"2012-02-16T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:32:42","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-exercise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-exercise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Example 1: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A teacher who gets a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking the next year. There will always be instability in these rankings, some of which will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example 2:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A teacher who gets a ranking of an 8 in year one is likely to get a different ranking in year two. \u00a0The instability in these rankings often reflect &#8220;real&#8221; performance changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example 3:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, and include a citation. Even though you cited it, paraphrasing too closely is still plagiarism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The instability in these rankings, some of which reflect &#8220;real&#8221; performance changes, will always be present often times because a teacher who gets a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking in year two (Ravitch, 270-71).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example 4:\u00a0Properly paraphrase\u00a0from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, and include a citation to the original source.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ranking process of teachers is generally not consistent and when a teacher receives a ranking, it does not mean that he\/she will receive the same ranking the following year. \u00a0Although some of these ranking\u00a0inconsistencies are simply that, some may be showing actual performance differences (Ravitch, 270-71).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example 5:\u00a0Properly paraphrase\u00a0from 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ranking process of teachers is generally not consistent and when a teacher receives a ranking, it does not mean that he\/she will receive the same ranking the following year. \u00a0There will always be ranking inconsistencies in the process, however some of them &#8220;will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes&#8221; (Ravitch, 270-71).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example 1: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. A teacher who gets a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking the next year. There will always be instability in these rankings, some of which will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes. Example 2:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by paraphrasing its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-exercise-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"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\/1180"}],"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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}