{"id":3406,"date":"2013-02-15T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2013-02-18T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:56:32","slug":"the-dangers-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/the-dangers-of-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Objective:<\/strong>\u00a0In order to avoid plagiarism, one must first learn how to plagiarize. Each of the five paragraphs: the first three show different ways of plagiarizing, while the last two demonstrate how to paraphrase properly.<\/p>\n

Example 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/p>\n

Ex. 1: <\/em>Diane Ravitch says that\u00a0Sean Corcoran, an economist at New York University, studied the teacher evaluation systems in New York City and Houston. She says he found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points.<\/p>\n

Example 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/p>\n

Ex 2:<\/em>\u00a0Ravitch uses results from an economist named\u00a0Sean Corcoran from New York University, who studied teacher evaluation systems and found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points, to prove that the scores were unreliable for others to judge the actual performance of the teacher.<\/p>\n

Example 3:<\/strong>\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.<\/p>\n

Ex 3:<\/em> Ravitch uses results from an economist named\u00a0Sean Corcoran from New York University, who studied teacher evaluation systems and found that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points, to prove that the scores were unreliable for others to judge the actual performance of the teacher.<\/p>\n

Works Cited:<\/p>\n

Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, Revised and Expanded Edition.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Basic Books, 2010.<\/p>\n

Example 4:\u00a0<\/strong>Properly paraphrase\u00a0from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, and include a citation to the original source.<\/p>\n

Ex 4: <\/em>Through her own interpretation of Sean Cocoran’s analysis of teacher evaluations, Ravitch affirms that the “margin of error” when evaluating teachers in New York City is too high to accurately evaluate the teachers, and proves to be too inconsistent when comparing the scores over the years [1].<\/p>\n

[1]:Diane Ravitch,\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, Revised and Expanded Edition\u00a0<\/em>(New York: Basic Books, 2010), 270-271.<\/p>\n

Works Cited:<\/p>\n

Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, Revised and Expanded Edition.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Basic Books, 2010.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In her novel, Diane Ravitch confirms that the system used to asses teachers is very unreliable and has too much of a gap to accurately evaluate them. Ravitch uses economist Sean Cocoran’s assertion that\u00a0\u201cthe average \u2018margin of error\u2019 of a New York City teacher was plus or minus 28 points\u201d in order to prove that the system used in very inaccurate and unreliable [2].<\/p>\n

[2]:Diane Ravitch,\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, Revised and Expanded Edition\u00a0<\/em>(New York: Basic Books, 2010), 270-271.<\/p>\n

Works Cited:<\/p>\n

Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, Revised and Expanded Edition.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Basic Books, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Objective:\u00a0In order to avoid plagiarism, one must first learn how to plagiarize. Each of the five paragraphs: the first three show different ways of plagiarizing, while the last two demonstrate how to paraphrase properly. Example 1:\u00a0Plagiarize\u00a0the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. Ex. 1: Diane Ravitch says that\u00a0Sean Corcoran, an economist at New … Continue reading The Dangers of Plagiarism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}