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Example 38- Undergraduate student in arts

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Source text:

As a nonprofit entity responsible for the collective good, the government is often the only institution capable of preventing this from happening. (From Okimoto, D. I. p.11)

Writer’s text:

The government is the only institution capable of preventing this from happening between MITI and the market (Daniel I. Okimoto, p.11)

Writer’s comment:

The professor recommended this book.

Student’s comment:

  1. I would put it in quotation marks. And the fact that the professor recommended the book, again I fear plagiarism, the prof would be familiar with it, so would be more likely to pick this up. (A Master’s student in Library & Information Studies)
  2. I actually think this is ok. I think you’ve already given the source. You are not putting it in quotes, but I think… to me, if one word is different, even one word, then you should not put in quote, anything that you should put in quotes is the exact copy of what said. So I think that’s fine. (A graduate in Business)

Faculty member’s comment:

  1. This is okay, because you have the person who said it… because it’s not exactly the same sentence. Just one word. (Reads the student’s text) It’s difficult because it’s not exactly the same thing, you cannot treat with quotation marks, it’s not exactly what person says. I would agree with that. At least we know that this person said this basically maybe few different words. (A professor in Education)
  2. It’s a case of slightly inaccurate quotation. The student deserves credit for citing the source, and in fact including the page reference, because in the case of direct quotation most style manuals require a page reference, so good for the student.

 

 

Example 57- Graduate education student

Graduate Students, Social Sciences, One Comment

A graduate student in counseling psychology

Source text:

These findings suggest that parental and family factors are related to the probability of successful treatment outcome. Following from that, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that addressing parental psychopathology and family functioning in treatment would lead to greater treatment response rates. Theorists have argued that because children are incredibly reliant on their family environment, an improved model of treatment would be one that is premised on an interpersonal conceptualization of youth anxiety and that aims to employ interventions at the social (e.g., familial) rather than individual levels (Barrett, 2000). Furthermore, including parents in the treatment of externalizing disorders in childhood (e.g., oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior) has been documented as beneficial to treatment success (Kazdin, 1997; Patterson, Chamberlain, & Reid, 1982; Woolfenden, Williams, & Peat, 2002).

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Example 28- Undergraduate science student

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Source text:

The compound eyes, which are the visual organs of most adult insects, are much more complicated. The whole eye has an external transparent layer called the cornea divided up into facets, usually hexagonal in form, each of which is the outermost part of a visual structure called an ommatidium. In some dragonflies there are over 20,000 ommatidia in each eye, and most of the higher insects like flies and butterflies have several thousand. In worker ants there may be a dozen or less, and the eye hardly functions as a compound organ. (p.32)

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