Hippiekinkster
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ORIGINAL: Brain I thought it was pretty obvious I didn't write it so I never expected anyone to think of it as plagiarism. I'll be watching more closely how other people post articles. It's not obvious at all. I could not find your first paragraph anywhere in the attributed article. Without actually reading the article, the reader naturally assumes that the first paragraph are your words. After the first paragraph, you emphasize "Scott Walker Kills His..." by using large text, but, since there are no quotation marks, the reader once again assumes these are your words, and you bolded it and used a large type size for emphasis. The reader has no way of knowing that this sentence is actually the Title of the article. Similarly, the text following the bolded title has no quotation marks. Unless the reader clicks on your HTML link at the end of the post, he has no way of knowing that those words are not yours. You provided a link at the end of your post, but there is no way to determine if there is any relation between the link and the rest of your post. A mandatory orientation class I took back in 89 at the U of Houston included using the library resources, and how to quote and attribute when writing papers. You can also find this info, IIRC, in The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Here is an example: "Citation of another work; the direct words are enclosed in quotation marks." Joe Blow, "How I Write Shit", New Yorker, Dec. 2020 vol. XX pp 20-25 (or, in an online attribution, the hyperlink) Then I follow the quote and attribution with my comments. I occasionally cooment above the quoted material, followed by the citation and then the attribution. Parapharasing the above: Joe Blow said that when he cites a work, he puts direct words within quotation marks. A paraphrase does not require quotation marks. Do you follow?
< Message edited by Hippiekinkster -- 3/26/2011 4:15:33 PM >
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