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"Whenever
you are reporting on the work of others you must be clear
about who said what. Plagiarism is the theft of another's
words and/or ideas..."
–Earl
R. Babbie
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Research
is the investigation of the ideas that will support your thesis.
By definition, it requires the inclusion of references to
other peoples' writings. This means using notes and bibliographic
information to document sources so that when you write your
paper you are:
- acknowledging
those who influenced your research
- establishing
the accuracy and authority of your sources
- enabling your
reader to locate the same source
Exercise
1. Review the definitions
and examples of plagiarism given on the Web pages below.
2. Go to the Bulletin
Board for this class. Once you are there, click on  .
Put in your name, and then briefly describe what is an acceptable
use of the following passage from The Best American Short
Stories 1989, edited by Margaret Atwood and Shannon Ravenel,
Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston: 1989.
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do we learn our notions of what a story is? What sets
"a story" apart from mere background noise,
the wash of syllables that surround us, and flows through
us, and is forgotten everyday? What makes a good story
a unified whole, something complete and satisfying in
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In Chapter 4 we
will discuss in detail more about citing sources and documenting
sources.
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