{"id":9959,"date":"2013-09-30T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2013-09-30T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T02:26:59","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/09\/30\/avoiding-plagiarism-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Step 0: Original text:\u00a0<\/b><b>Select what you believe to be the most important passage from Susan Eaton\u2019s book.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn <i>Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/i>, 19 schoolchildren and their families sued the state of Connecticut, arguing that the racial, ethnic, and class segregation that characterized their schools failed to deliver the equal educational opportunity promised in the state\u2019s constitution\u201d (Eaton, <i>XIII<\/i>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Step 1:\u00a0Plagiarize<\/b>\u00a0<b>any portion of the original text by\u00a0<i>copying<\/i>\u00a0portions of it word-for-word.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In <i>Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/i>, 19 schoolchildren and their families sued the state of Connecticut, arguing that the racial, ethnic, and class segregation that characterized their schools failed to deliver the equal educational opportunity promised in the state\u2019s constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Step 2:\u00a0Plagiarize<\/b>\u00a0<b>any portion of the original text by\u00a0<i>paraphrasing its structure too closely<\/i>, without copying it word-for-word.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arguing that racial, ethnic, and class segregation was the reason their schools failed, 19 schoolchildren and their parents sued the state of Connecticut in the <i>Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/i> case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Step 3:\u00a0Plagiarize<\/b>\u00a0<b>any portion of the original text by\u00a0paraphrasing its structure too closely,\u00a0<i>with a citation to the original source<\/i>\u00a0(using any academic citation style). Remember, even if you include a citation, paraphrasing too closely is still plagiarism.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19 schoolchildren and their parents sued the state of Connecticut because they \u201c[argued] that the racial, ethnic, and class segregation that characterized their schools failed to deliver the equal educational opportunity promised in the state\u2019s constitution\u201d (Eaton, <i>XIII<\/i>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Step 4:\u00a0Properly paraphrase\u00a0<\/b><b>any portion of the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in your own diction and style, with a citation to\u00a0the original source.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because educational inequality in the school systems was so evident, a large number of Connecticut residents sued the state of Connecticut in an effort to make way for, not only racial and ethnic, but also class equality throughout the school systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Step 5:\u00a0Properly paraphrase\u00a0<\/b><b>any portion of the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in your own diction and style, supplemented with a<i>\u00a0direct quotation of a key phrase<\/i>, plus a citation to the original source.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In an effort to eliminate the educational inequality within the school systems, \u201c19 schoolchildren and their families sued the state of Connecticut, arguing that the racial, ethnic, and class segregation that characterized their schools failed to deliver the equal educational opportunity promised in the state\u2019s constitution\u201d (Eaton, <i>XIII<\/i>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Work Cited:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Eaton, Susan. <i>The Children in Room E4<\/i>. New York: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 0: Original text:\u00a0Select what you believe to be the most important passage from Susan Eaton\u2019s book. \u201cIn Sheff v. O\u2019Neill, 19 schoolchildren and their families sued the state of Connecticut, arguing that the racial, ethnic, and class segregation that characterized their schools failed to deliver the equal educational opportunity promised in the state\u2019s constitution\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/09\/30\/avoiding-plagiarism-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}