{"id":1264,"date":"2012-02-17T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:23:56","slug":"1264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/02\/1264\/","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Example 1:\u00a0Plagiarize<\/span> the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An economist who studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points. In other words, a teachers who has ranked at the 43rd percentile compared to his or her peers might actually be anywhere between the 15th percentile and the 71st percentile.<\/p>\n

Example 2:\u00a0Plagiarize<\/span> the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sean Corcoran was an economist at New York University who studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. He found the average margin of error for a New York City teacher in these evaluation systems was plus or minus 28 points.<\/p>\n

Example 3:\u00a0Plagiarize<\/span> 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

Sean Corcoran was an economist at New York University who studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. He found the average margin of error for a New York City teacher in these evaluation systems was plus or minus 28 points (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n

Example 4:\u00a0Properly paraphrase<\/span> 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

Proving the imperfection of the teacher evaluation system, one economist found that the margin of error in the evaluation system for New York was plus or minus 28 points. This meant that, even if a teacher was ranked in the 43rd<\/sup> percentile, he or she could actually be between the ranks of the 15th<\/sup> and 71st<\/sup> percentile (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n

Example 5:\u00a0Properly paraphrase<\/span> 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

Because of the large margin of error in the teacher evaluation systems, and the fluctuation of scores, the author says, \u201cit is difficult to trust any performance rating if the odds of getting the same rating next year are no better than a coin toss\u201d (Ravitch 271). Clearly, the current system is not an accurate one.<\/p>\n

Work Cited<\/p>\n

Diane<\/a> Ravitch,\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System.<\/em>New York: Basic Books, 2011, pp. 270-71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Example 1:\u00a0Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. An economist who studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points. In other words, a teachers who has ranked at the 43rd … Continue reading Plagiarism is Bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"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\/1264"}],"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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}