Donald Hillis
Lib 115
1. Last summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate pizza at Gino's East.
The Example in one was writing their own experiences and where they were going and doing so I do not believe any citation was needed.
2. Americans want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody.
This is paraphrasing the Constitution of the U.S.A. so it most definitely needs to be acknowledged.
3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework.
Where the person got that 57% of High School students think they have too much homework needs to be to be explored. What study? Who wrote it? Where is it printed?
4. Martin Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a feigning type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes.
In Martin Luther King’s ‘letter from Birmingham Jail’ is how the person in number four should of wrote his letter. Than cited in full citation. Like this MLA style
King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton, 1997.1854 – 66.
Or like this APA
5. Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's "white power structure" left African-Americans there "no alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail" para. 5).
Same with this one.
6. In "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham, your statement fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."
Again cite it!
7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean.
No citation needed
8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings.
According to the constitution of the U.S.A.
I am not sure if I have learned anything new this week in the class both of my Eng. Teachers were big sticklers on plagiarism so they made us study a lot of material on it. And if in question cite it! I am not sure about this whole Fair use clause in the copyright laws. Because like I stated in the forum that HOPE picture is just a painted replica of the photograph and should fall under copyright laws. Anyway I hope to avoid all plagiarism in the future.
Hi, Donald:
ReplyDeleteThank you for your efforts and honest summary. I wanted for students to consider plagiarism/copyright in real life and how that is sometimes different then academic settings. I'm totally on board with your english teachers, if you are not sure, cite it. I think common knowledge is some what hard to determine therefore citing the US Constitution proves to your reader that you are aware of the origin and gives your argument weight. One slightly more positive spin I try and put on it, your essay will be so fascinating that the reader will want to dig deeper and you provide the evidence and road map for your subject through citing and a bibliography. It's worth it to give credit to the authors as evidence of your research as well.
Cheers,
Andrea