Unit 2: Plagiarism

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.

      CORRECT: no citation needed for 

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.

CORRECT: no citation needed for the authors opinion

3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework.
INCORRECT: citation needed to confirm the statistic

Numbers 4, 5, and 6 all refer to the following passage from Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail":

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

4. Martin Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a surfacy type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes.

INCORRECT: need to cite where that quote is from.

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).

CORRECT: credit given to MLK and in text citation is correct

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."

CORRECT: source cited and credit given 

7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean.
INCORRECT: only an anecdotal and not cited

8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings.

CORRECT: common knowledge

citation is important and I've learned that if i plagiarize swat teams will bust in and giant robots will "Terminate" (The Terminator, 1984) those who plagiarize, and people will break into a spontaneous musical number about how to not plagiarize.
    some steps that i take to avoid plagiarism is to read over your writing whenever possible especially when you add new content, and getting other people to read over it will also help greatly. and when in doubt, Always ask your instructor or another qualified person to check your writing.