{"id":3318,"date":"2013-02-13T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:45:28","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Example 1: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Plagiarize<\/span> the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University who studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York and Houston 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: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Plagiarize<\/span> the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Corcoran, an economist at New York University, researched the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. He concluded that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 3: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Plagiarize<\/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<p>Professor Corcoran, an economist at New York University, researched the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. He concluded that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28points. (Ravitch 270-271).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 4: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Properly 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<p>According to economist Sean Corcoran, value-added scores are unreliable in the sense that the ranking a teacher receives varies by year (Ravitch 270-271). <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 5: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Properly 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<p>Based on Ravitch\u2019s analysis of economist Sean Corcoran\u2019s studies, she argues \u201cA teacher who gets a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking the next year.\u201d (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0<em>The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education<\/em>. New York: Basic Books, 2011. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example 1: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University who studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York and Houston 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318"}],"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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}