High School

After reading "How to Avoid Plagiarism" from your reading assignment list, evaluate the following passages from a sample paper. Decide if the author properly credited the source in each instance.

Passage from an article from John Hopkins University:

"The World Wide Web offers information and data from all over the world. Because so much information is available, and because that information can appear to be fairly 'anonymous,' it is necessary to develop skills to evaluate what you find. When you use a research or academic library, the books, journals, and other resources have already been evaluated by scholars, publishers, and librarians. Every resource you find has been evaluated in one way or another before you ever see it. When you are using the World Wide Web, none of this applies. There are no filters. Because anyone can write a Web page, documents of the widest range of quality, written by authors of the widest range of authority, are available on an even playing field. Excellent resources reside alongside the most dubious. The Internet epitomizes the concept of Caveat lector: Let the reader beware."

Kirk, E. (1996). Evaluating information found on the Internet. John Hopkins University, The Sheridan Libraries. Retrieved on September 15, 2009, from http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/, para. 1.

For each sentence, circle "Correct" if the decision was correct and "Incorrect" if it was incorrect:

1. The Internet contains information from all over the world. Because there is so much information available, much of it anonymous, it is a perfect example of the concept of let the reader beware.
- Correct / Incorrect

2. Kirk cautions readers that although there is much information that can be accessed on the Internet from a variety of sources and places, they need to realize that this information did not go through the same evaluation process that articles in academic publications go through. "The Internet epitomizes the concept of Caveat lector: Let the reader beware" (Kirk, 1996, para. 1).
- Correct / Incorrect

3. The Internet contains information from numerous worldwide sources.
- Correct / Incorrect

Answer :

The author of the sample paper made correct decisions in all the sentences provided. They properly credited the source in sentence 2, where they provided a direct quote and included the necessary citation information.

Based on the information provided, we need to determine whether the author of the sample paper properly credited the source, which is the passage from an article from John Hopkins University.

Analyze each sentence from the sample paper and decide if it illustrates a correct or incorrect decision by the author.

1. The Internet contains information from all over the world. Because there is so much information available, much of it anonymous, it is a perfect example of the concept of let the reader beware.
- Correct. This sentence correctly identifies that the Internet contains information from all over the world and emphasizes the concept of "let the reader beware." The author does not need to credit the source for this general statement.

2. Kirk cautions readers that although there is much information that can be accessed on the Internet from a variety of sources and places, they need to realize that this information did not go through the same evaluation process that articles in academic publications go through. "The Internet epitomizes the concept of Caveat lector: Let the reader beware" (Kirk, 1996, para. 1).
- Correct. This sentence properly credits Kirk (the author of the passage from John Hopkins University) for the idea that the Internet does not go through the same evaluation process as academic publications. The author provides a direct quote and includes the necessary citation information.

3. The Internet contains information from numerous worldwide sources.
- Correct. This sentence is a general statement about the Internet and does not require a specific citation. It is not necessary for the author to credit the source for this statement.

- The author of the sample paper made correct decisions in all the sentences provided. They properly credited the source in sentence 2, where they provided a direct quote and included the necessary citation information. The other sentences were general statements that did not require specific citations.

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