{"id":3436,"date":"2013-02-15T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2013-02-15T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:31:11","slug":"learning-to-avoid-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/learning-to-avoid-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Avoid Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original Text<\/strong>: No measure is perfect, but the estimates of value-added and other \u201cgrowth models,\u201d which attempt to isolate the \u201ctrue effect\u201d of an individual teacher through his or her students\u2019 test scores, are alarmingly error-prone in any given year.<\/p>\n

Original source:\u00a0Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Basic Books. Print.<\/p>\n

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

No measure is perfect, but the estimates of value-added and other \u201cgrowth models,\u201d which attempt to isolate the \u201ctrue effect\u201d of an individual teacher through his or her students\u2019 test scores, are alarmingly error-prone in any given year.<\/p>\n

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

An alarmingly error-prone measure, estimates the value-added and other “growth” models.” These measures attempt to isolate the “true effect” of an individual teacher through his or her students’ test scores.<\/p>\n

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Example 3: Plagiarize <\/strong>the 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

An alarmingly error-prone measure, estimates the value-added and other “growth” models.” These measures attempt to isolate the “true effect” of an individual teacher through his or her students’ test scores (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n

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Example 4: Properly paraphrase<\/strong> from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, and include a citation to the original source.<\/p>\n

Ravitch notes that, although some of the measures taken to identify a teacher’s success within her student’s test scores are considered to be effective, there are other measures that may have a margin of error (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n

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Example 5:\u00a0Properly paraphrase<\/strong>\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

Ravitch notes that, even though some of the measures taken to identify a teacher’s success within her student’s test scores are considered to be effective, there are other measures that “are alarmingly error-prone in any given year” (Ravitch 270).<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Diane Ravitch,\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Basic Books, 2011, pp. 270-71.<\/p>\n

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Original Text: No measure is perfect, but the estimates of value-added and other \u201cgrowth models,\u201d which attempt to isolate the \u201ctrue effect\u201d of an individual teacher through his or her students\u2019 test scores, are alarmingly error-prone in any given year. Original source:\u00a0Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System.\u00a0New York: Basic Books. … Continue reading Learning to Avoid Plagiarism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"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\/3436"}],"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\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}