{"id":3376,"date":"2013-02-14T22:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2013-02-14T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:40:14","slug":"plagiarism-is-no-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/plagiarism-is-no-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism is NO GOOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Example 1:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University, studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. 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><em>Example 2:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An economist at New York University, Sean\u00a0Corcoran,\u00a0studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. In his results 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><em>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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University who\u00a0studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston,\u00a0the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points\u00a0(Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to NYU economist Sean Corcoran&#8217;s findings, there is a flaw in the teacher evaluating system in New York City, therefor causing a teacher&#8217;s ranking, compared to others, to fall anywhere from\u00a0plus 28 or minus 28 points (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After studying the teacher evaluation systems in New York and Houston, NYU economist Sean Corcoran reported &#8220;that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was either plus or minus 28 points&#8221; (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example 1:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University, studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. He found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points. Example 2:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by paraphrasing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/plagiarism-is-no-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plagiarism is NO GOOD!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"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\/3376"}],"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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}