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8 Class Famous Plagiarist 1 How to Teach the Famous-Plagiarist Research Report Composition Project in 8 Classes Copyright 2011 by Bruce D. Bruce Cover Photograph © Kurhan | Dreamstime.com Introduction This document describes a composition project that I have successfully used during my years of teaching at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The composition project is to write a research paper on a famous plagiarist of the student’s choice. The Famous-Plagiarist Research Report is useful because it teaches the students useful skills: • How to Recognize and Avoid Plagiarism • What Can Happen in the Real World When Someone is Caught Plagiarizing • How to Do Research • How to Use the MLA Format Teachers are welcome to evaluate this assignment to see if they want to use it in their own classes. Teachers are welcome to adapt this assignment as desired. Important Disclosure The students’ papers that appear in this document are copyrighted by the students who wrote them. This document refers (especially in Class 1) to Ohio University’s Alden Library and resources available there and at the library’s Web site. I hope that your school has similar resources. 2 Free Resources Be aware that you can go to Lulu.com and download these relevant documents as free pdfs: Composition Project: Writing a Famous-Plagiarist Report http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/composition-project-writing-a-famous-plagiarist- report/15834830 This document includes samples of my students’ work. Other free documents for teachers and student are available at my storefront at Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/brucebATohioDOTedu 3 Table of Contents Class 1: Assign Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper …………………………………………….. 6 What Do I Have to Do for the Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper? (1,250-2,000 words) Notes on Plagiarists Class 2: Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued……………………………………… 19 How Do I Organize a Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper? How Do I Cite an Article from an Online Database Such as Academic Search Complete for My Works Cited List? How Do I Cite a Short Work from a Web Site Such as Slate for My Works Cited List? “Joe Biden: Plagiarism Is No One Time Thing,” by Caroline Rahtz Class 3: Homework #1 Due Today: Topic & 2 Sources & Brief Outline of Your Research Paper……29 Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued Academic Search Complete InfoTree Subject Resources Titles, Ledes, and Thesis Statements Evaluating Sources Why Wikipedia is Not a Good Source Why the Web Can Be a Bad Source Class 4: Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued; Short Quotes (MLA)…………… 40 Plagiarism—What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It Ethics Short Quotations (MLA) How Do I Cite a Print Book for My Works Cited List? How Do I Cite an Online Video for My Works Cited List? How Do I Cite an Entry (Such as a Definition) from an Encyclopedia or Dictionary? Class 5: Homework #2 Due Today: Annotated Bibliography of the Sources of Information……….. 51 for the Data in your Research Paper Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued Long Quotations (MLA) Write a Good Conclusion Class 6: Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued……………………………………….. 59 Quotation Marks An Important Note: Quote Accurately Tips on Writing Good Beginnings Citing Sources •••Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper Checklist #1 Class 7: Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued ……………………………………… 71 MLA Format for an Academic Paper •••Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper Checklist #2 Class 8: Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper, Continued ……………………………………… 77 Peer Review of Research Paper •••Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper Checklist #3 Catching Plagiarism Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper Peer Review Sheet 4 The Most Important Things I Have Learned from Writing ………………………………….. 88 the Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper Appendix A: How Should I Use Quotations When Using the MLA Format? …………… 90 Appendix B: How Do I Write A Works Cited List? ………………………………………. 95 Appendix C: How Do I Use In-Text Citations in My Papers? ………………………………… 116 Appendix D: How Do I Introduce Quoted Material? ……………………………………. 119 How Do I Introduce Short Passages of Quoted Material? ………………………… How Do I Introduce Long Passages of Quoted Material? ………………………… Appendix E: How Do I Use the MLA Format for Academic Papers? ………………………… 130 Appendix F: Some Important Things I Have Learned……………………………………. 131 Appendix G: Academic Honesty…………………………………………….…………………… 133 Appendix H: Fair Use……………………………………………………………….…………. 136 Appendix I: Some Common Rules of Writing……………………………………………… 137 How Do I Use Affect And Effect? ……………………………………………………… 137 How Do I Use Amount And Number? ……………………………………….……. 138 How Do I Use Apostrophes to Show Possession? ……………………………………. 139 Use Brackets for Editorial Insertions……………………………………….……..…. 140 Capitalize the Names of Holidays ……………………………………….……..…. 141 Use a Colon Between Two Independent Clauses When the Second Clause………. 142 Summarizes or Explains the First After an Independent Clause, Use a Colon to Direct Attention to a Quotation….. 143 Use a Colon to Direct Attention to an Appositive ……………………………………. 144 Use a Colon to Direct Attention to a List…………………………………………. 145 How Do I Recognize and Correct Comma Splices? ……………………………………. 146 Use Commas to Separate the Items in a Series of Three or More……………………… 147 Use a Comma or Commas to Set Off Direct Address ………………………………… 148 After an Introductory Element, Use a Comma……………………………………. 149 Use a Comma and a Conjunction to Separate Two Independent Clauses……………… 150 Use a Comma or Commas to Set Off Parenthetical Elements ………………………… 151 5 Use Commas or Other Punctuation to Set Off Speaker Tags …………………………… 152 How Do I Recognize and Correct Dangling Modifiers? …………………………… 153 Use a Dash or Dashes for an Abrupt Break in the Flow of a Sentence or Dialogue… 155 Use Adjective-Forming Hyphens When Combining Two or More Words to…….. 156 Form an Adjective That Appears Before the Word It Modifies When Do I Use Italics for Titles? ………………………………………………………. 157 Use Italics for Emphasis……………………………………………………………….…. 158 Use Italics for Foreign Words ………………………………………………………. 159 How Do I Use It’s And Its? …………………………………………………………. 160 How Do I Use Lie And Lay? ………………………………………………………. 161 How Do I Use Lose And Loose? ……………………………………………………… 162 Where do Periods Go When I Use Parentheses? ……………………………… 163 How Do I Use Principal And Principle? ………………………………………………… 164 The American Style is Put Commas and Periods Inside Quotation Marks ………… 165 Use Quotation Marks for Dialogue………………………………………………… 166 When Quoting Part of a Sentence, You May Not Need to Use a Capital Letter…….. 167 Use Single Quotation Marks Within Double Quotation Marks…………………… 168 When Do I Use Quotation Marks for Titles? ……………………………………. 169 Keep Related Words Together……………………………………………………. 170 How Do I Recognize and Correct Run-on Sentences? ………………………………… 172 Use a Semicolon to Join Two Closely Related Independent Clauses…………… 173 How Do I Use Than and Then? ……………………………………………………. 175 How Do I Use Their, There, and They’re? ……………………………………......... 176 How Do I Use To, Two, Too? ……………………………………………………. 177 How Do I Use Who and Whom? ……………………………………………………. 178 How Do I Use Your And You’re? ……………………………………………………. 180 Appendix J: Some Books by David Bruce……………………………………………… 181 6 Class 1: Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper: Assign the Paper What Do I Have to Do for the Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper? Assign: Mandatory Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper. You will write a research paper using the MLA format about a famous plagiarist of your choice. • You will need five to fifteen reference sources; list them in a Works Cited List using the MLA format. • Two of your sources must come from a library online database such as Academic Search Complete. If you can’t find at least two sources using a library online database, choose another topic. • Use the MLA format. • Write 1,250 to 2,000 words (5-8 pages). • Use Times New Roman font and 1-inch margins. • Remember to double-space your papers. • Remember to hand in your early drafts. Use a 2-pocket folder to hand in your drafts. Put the early drafts in the left pocket and the final draft in the left pocket. Write “1st draft,” “2nd draft,” and “final draft” on the relevant drafts. Paper Requirements You may choose your topic for this Famous-Plagiarist Research Paper; however, your topic must meet my approval. We will be reading some interesting articles in the next few days that may give you a topic to write about and which may give you facts or ideas you can write about (while avoiding plagiarism, of course). Your Famous-Plagiarist Paper need not be huge. It will be between 1,250 and 2,000 words. Include a word count on the final draft of your paper. Use 12-point Times Roman font. You cannot plagiarize what someone else wrote. 7 You will use the MLA format. If you do, you will have a Works Cited list. You must have between five and fifteen items in the Works Cited list. Whenever a paper is written in the MLA format with in-text citations and a Works Cited list, the audience is almost always academic: either your teacher or the readers of a research journal. In this case, your reader is your teacher. You need to convince your teacher that you can write in an interesting way (writing about your personal experience helps you to do that), that you can do research, that you can use an academic format, that you can use in-text citations, and that you can write a paper using an academic format. (You may use the MLA format or the format that is used in your major.) Recommendations: • Visit <http://www.famousplagiarists.com/> online. This is an excellent site for finding out about plagiarism. • Visit <slate.com> online. Search for “Plagiarism.” Then search for “Plagiarism” together with one of the names that frequently pops up. • Google “Matthew Lesko Plagiarism” and see what pops up. • Begin doing research quickly. I recommend that you choose a topic and find a few sources and begin reading them quickly. • Part of the paper requires defining plagiarism and telling how to avoid it. You may begin writing that section as you research your famous plagiarist.
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