{"id":5265,"date":"2014-02-15T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:29:49","slug":"5265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2014\/02\/5265\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Step 1: Plagiarize any portion of the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But it is difficult to trust any performance rating if the odds of getting the same rating next year are not better than a coin toss.<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2: Plagiarize any portion of the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I personally find it difficult to believe any performance rating if the chance of getting the same rating in the future are virtually random.<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3: Plagiarize any portion of the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, with a citation the original source (using any academic citation style). Remember, even if you include a citation, paraphrasing too closely is still plagiarism.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to trust any rating of teacher performance when the odds of getting the same rating next year seem 50\/50 at best (Ravitch 271).<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 4: Properly paraphrase any portion of the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in your own diction and style, and include a citation to the original source.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to Ravitch, these performance ratings lose their credibility when the sharp year to year fluctuations in teacher standards are taken into account (Ravitch 271).<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 5: Properly paraphrase any portion of the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in your own diction and style, supplemented with a direct quotation of a key phrase, and include a citation to the original source.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ravitch claims the performance rating system to be highly unreliable, noting that it is, &#8220;difficult to trust any performance rating if the odds of getting the same rating next year are not better than a coin toss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Works Cited<\/p>\n<p>Ravitch, Diane.\u00a0<i>The Death and Life of the Great American School System<\/i>. Revised and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Expanded ed. New York: Basic, 2010. Print.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Plagiarize any portion of the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. But it is difficult to trust any performance rating if the odds of getting the same rating next year are not better than a coin toss. Step 2: Plagiarize any portion of the original text by paraphrasing its structure too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2014\/02\/5265\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265"}],"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\/735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}