...Recognizing Plagiarism Your audience can catch plagiarism in many ways. After submission of papers, professors usually catch on to your writing style. Therefore, sentences that are written in a perfected style and does not follow your usual verbiage is more than likely to be plagiarism. Complex sentence structures and sentence fragments can also serve as other clues for plagiarism. Another clue for plagiarism is when certain paragraphs in the paper are written to perfection with no misspellings or grammatical errors. Identifying Plagiarism The student has clearly plagiarized the first two sentences in his rewording of the original author’s work. For example, by using the verb tainted in the original author’s work, the student has stolen the original idea of the author. Secondly, the following sentence by Crossen (1994), “Although biomedical research incorporates rigorous scientific rules and is often critically scrutinized by peers,” is the same as this one by the student: Biomedical researchers incorporate strict rules of science into their work, which is examined by peers. Note that the only difference is that the student has only changed the words “rigorous” and “scrutinized” to “strict” and “examined,” while maintaining the same sentence structure and flow from Crossen. Examples of Plagiarism The following are two sentences that have been plagiarized. By providing quotation marks and correctly citing the sentences, the student can avoid plagiarism. 1. But it...
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...Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Home Page » Social Issues Effective Study Habit In: Social Issues Effective Study Habit University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. I would describe my ideal study environment in my home would have to be in my bedroom with the door close. In my room it also very quiet and always set my mind at ease helping me concentrates on my assignments. I find that when I am comfortable it helps me to focus making me finish my assignment faster. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Some of the distractions that might hinder my study progress or performance from being in an online classroom are: the telephone ringing, talking on the phone, playing on Facebook, helping my nephew with his homework, cooking him afternoon snack, watching TV, I could go on but that’s just a few things that hinder me from doing my assignment. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The actions that I can to take to manage and eliminate distractions are: to stop talking on the phone for the time that I set aside for my assignment, I also can have my nephew afternoon snack already prepared. As far as the TV watching I can always catch the reruns...
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...When I was six years old, my mom asked me, how about eating a hamburger outside? and I answered “Yes!” and went out with her. But instead I went to a public health center, not fast food restaurant and got vaccinated. It was very painful and I cried. Many people may have an experience like me. However vaccinations help us not to suffer from a certain health problem and lead to an advantageous response to infection. We have had many inoculations decades such as polio, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, etc. As a person of South Korea, I have had many vaccinations. It plays an important role in living healthy. Therefore, I think that all nations should be mandatory vaccinations because it would protect individual and the nation’s health. According to Health Affairs, a journal about healthcare and health policy, a vaccine was attempted for the first time by Edward Jenner who was a doctor from the United Kingdom in 1796. During this time, smallpox spread throughout the UK. Meanwhile Jenner discovered that ranch workers milking cows everyday didn’t catch well the disease. There was a disease, cowpox that is similar to smallpox but a weaker form. When a person contracted cowpox, he or she could endure well than a person who caught smallpox and wasn’t stricken with smallpox anymore. Inspired by this realization Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine after some experiments using cowpox virus. Since then the term ‘vaccine’ began to be used by Louis Pasteur who has been called “microbial father”...
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...must need other people as sources to assist our writing. I was the child who refused to read and “un-educated” child. Boys tent to learn things more physically compare with girls, and I was the kind of child. To sit down and read would be the hardest act for me. My mother was an elementary school teacher. She retired several years ago, and she known very well about how a young child should be learning. Which means I had different education than other kids. While other students were suffering by their parents’ pressure on their grades, I was...
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...Throughout the course of the semester, my writing as drastically improved through analyzing and understanding the course goals, its objectives, the topics of the papers, and grading rubrics. Utilizing the syllabus allowed me to see what was expected of me as a writer, and how I would be critiqued in my writing, starting with the first paper which asked me to explain the moment or experience when I knew I was a part of a discourse community. At first, I did not understand what I was supposed to write. Once we talked about it in class and went over discourse community characteristics and sample papers, my paper began to flourish from draft one all the way to draft four. In draft one, I finished my paper with “I became so good with weave that...
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...The genre I will choose for this paper will be classical. I will use personal references, and experiences from friends and family about the airports process towards entering. Classical best fits my writing style because it is what I am comfortable with. The majority of my papers have used this genre, and the personalization and freedom it gives me helps me to fully asses and describe my argument. Most disruptive part of traveling today is going through security. When you first step into an airport, you are greeted with a warm welcome and then the cashier takes your money. After checking in with customer service, you are directed to proceed to the security check point; where TSA (Transportation Authority) meets you. Once in line you are told to take off of your shoes, remove your belt, place electronics in bend, and last but not lease you are told to place all metal into plastic bend. Afterwards you are instructed to walk through a metal scanner and possibly may get frisk in uncomfortable places. And with that said you are so reminded of this special date September 11, 2001. That date alone reminds all Americans of sorrow and pain. Unfortunately from that act of termism we as a nation have been towered by that tragedy. f TSA regulations are changed will they prevent future acts and the cost of our rights and privacy. The audience for this paper will be travelers. People who travel need to understand why regulations are in place, and why security is needed. Know one wants...
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...2012 Research Topic: I am investigating about soft drinks and calories in order to find out the relation of these products with the obesity problems we are having in our country, and how can they be resolved with the implementation of diets or strategies that will help the people. Source #1 “Hard News About Soft Drinks”. Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter 29.4 (2011): 4. MasterFILE Premier.Web. Quote: Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter 29.4 reports, “ In a study of 2,564 people, average age 69, over about nine years, drinking diet soda daily was associated with the 60% higher rate of stroke, heart attack and death from cardiovascular causes. Even after adjusting for other factors linked to heart disease, diet-soda drinkers remained at 48% greater risk” (Hard). Annotation: This article was made by the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter which is a very popular place and well known by their studies of health, nutrition and other things related with people. The article was available and accessible in the HCC databases and was recently written on the year 2011. I choose this article because it is very rich in information about the topic I’m researching which is soft drinks and their bad effects that it causes on humans. “Hard News About Soft Drinks”, talks about the risks of consuming soft drinks, especially those diet sodas that we think they are better for us but they end up having worse effects on our bodies and health. In this research paper...
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...Meta Analysis Like many others, this essay scared me. I wanted to get a jump start on this essay so I immediately began looking for argumentative topic. I looked for one that I would enjoy writing about and I found one, Gap year. While waiting for Mrs. Bain to come over to my desk to see if my topic would work, I heard another classmate call over Mrs. Bain and tell her that she is doing Gap year. I immediately got frustrated because I had that topic chose before a came to class that day and I felt as if my topic got stole from me. As I began to look for other topics, I realized nothing was jumping out at me. I got nervous that I would get stuck with a topic that I would not like. When I sent in my Topic sheet, I decided to do it on smoking. Smoking plays a big role in my life because my father is a smoker and although he is fully functional I can see the toll it...
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...writing this as a general note to everyone. If it does not apply to you just read for your pleasure. Many of you may have never had the opportunity to write a research paper. The paper is not a speech, it is not a conversation that you have with someone, and it is not a personal letter that you are writing. Every class I seem to get one or two who write this way and write like: “First of all, we will address-------“…..You are not addressing anything. You approach a paper as a researcher—simply providing evidence without bias…You do not write the paper in first person meaning you do not use the words “I, we, me, us, you”, and so forth. Also, writing is done in present and future tense. You will not have a sentence like: “these steps would be good for any business”. This can be worded as “these steps can be good for any business or these steps may be good for any business”. Again understandably, many of you may not have had the opportunity to write a paper as this. The easiest thing to do but most people do not is to look at the grading Rubric. Liberty writes the course and deliverables; not the instructor. The paper is due Monday of week 7. No late work is accepted. This is strictly enforced for many reasons with the most basic of keeping deadlines. The deans remind us that students will have had 7 weeks to prepare a paper and procrastinating or waiting to the last minute is not favorable practice for future managers. Secondly, there will always be issues with computers, Internet...
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...Research Paper (These instructions are also attached here as a Word document) This assignment has two goals: 1) have students increase their understanding of the concept of Protecting Personal Information (PPI) and other ethical issues related to the use of information technology through research, and 2) learn to correctly use the tools and techniques within Word to format a research paper including using Word’s citation tools. These skills will be valuable throughout students’ academic career. The paper will require a title page, 2-3 pages of content with incorporation of a minimum of 3 external resources from credible sources, and a References page. You are required to use APA format and utilize the References feature in Word for the required footnotes and for the creation of citations and the References list. Note that although MS Word used Bibliography or Works Cited as the title for the References list, you will need to change the words to “References.” Good resources include the UMUC Library website, the chapters on Microsoft Word in your hands-on textbook, the Williams/Sawyer textbook, and the resources that can be found under Course Content in your WebTycho classroom: Writing Resources, the Online Guide to Writing and Research, and the APA Tutorial. A list of topics from which students can choose is provided below. Topics for Research Paper 1. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) 2. Social Engineering 3. Employee Monitoring 4. Content Filtering ...
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...external environment that disrupts balance. These stressors can especially increase the stress level in a person which can increase a person’s risk in developing health complications. My health behavior is my inability to handle stress. There are a few triggers that can cause me to stress out almost every day. Those stressors are: school, work, and family obligations. According to Glanz et al. (2008), stressful experience are construed as person-environment transaction, and how external stressors can impact the way a person handle stress through appraisals, primary and secondary appraisals. Stress have impacted my life for the past few months, and have affected my overall health. The most frequent problems I have crossed path with multiple times that have elevated my stress level is juggling to balance the work-school life. Working a stressful 9 hour a day job, and then coming home to catch up on school readings and homework leads to lack of sleep. I am constantly struggling to make sure that all essay and homework are done and turned in on time. It’s hard when you don’t get to spend all day working on homework. In addition, I have a family that I love, and spending time with them is very important to me, so I try to get all my work done before the weekend so I can spend Saturday and Sunday with them. However, there are times beyond my control when I have to spend my Saturday either finishing up paperwork or doing homework. According to Glanz et al. (2008), primary appraisal...
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...Introduction I´m sorry, I didn´t even catch your name, what was it? Cool, Jennifer! (Smile) Well, you probably didn´t get my name, it´s Milan! (show ID) Who I am / Why I´m here Jennifer, I´m actually a student from Slovakia, it is a small country in Europe (show slick). I decided to work with Southwestern this summer because I wanted improve my English and learn to communicate better. It´s like an exchange program, so we stay with local host families and I am staying with ____________, they are really nice! What I´m doing Jennifer, what I´m doing is showing everyone the Southwestern Advantage study system (show main slick). You might even know some families who I have been talking to (who signed up for this) (go through namelist or pre-approach – ask which grade the kids are!). I think one of the reasons I´m doing so well around here, education is such a high priority, such a high priority. In fact Mrs. _______ said that it is nothing more important to her than to get kids to college. Do you feel the same way? I´ll go ahead and show you how it works. If you like them and you think kids would use them – great! If not, whatever (smile). It just takes a few minutes, and I´d like to show it to everyone who´s at home. Let´s get everyone in here! (Stand up, show action) * What grade are the kids in? * Are the kids more As-Bs students or Bs-Cs students? * Are they involved in any sports...
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...I face a lot of challenges when it comes to creating an acceptable paper. I have a negative outlook on my writing, I write a lot of cliche things, fragment sentences are my weakness, my vocabulary is poor, and I over think what is wanted from what I write. Struggling with this introduction, for instance, is one of my major weaknesses. A lot more work goes into it than there seems. I have to think “Did I capture the attention? Does my audience know where I’m going with this paper? Is it enough to make them curious to read more?” In the beginning of the semester, my introduction basically went straight into the paper like it was the first body paragraph. It was a confusing surprise. I’ve since worked on my introductions so they give more explanation toward the overall reason for the paper. Even if it’s not the best you’ve ever read, I’m more aware of why it’s not and that there are ways to strengthen it. I’d like to believe because of how self-aware I...
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...have not had an English class since my senior year of high school, so I have not had to write many papers since then. In these previous English classes, most of the writing has been research papers. Comparing this project to previous projects in other English classes, I have had much more flexibility in the topic to write about and I feel that in this class, the project topic is much more applicable to me and my interests, being that it was about my future career. Previously, I did not have much knowledge on different citation systems, how to correctly cite, and for example,...
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... I am interested in this field because I have always enjoyed forensics and watching different shows on Investigation Discovery. I am drawn to forensic science because it allows professionals to track criminals and hold them responsible for their crimes. I have participated in mock trial for the last two years and I enjoy learning about the criminal justice system. In my senior thesis class, I wrote a twenty page paper and did extensive research on Forensic Science. While working on this project I found it interesting how crime lab professionals can put all the pieces of evidence together to catch and convict criminals. For instance, I learned that patterns of blood spatters and the shapes of blood drops tell exactly how a crime was committed. During this time, I interviewed Lieutenant Phil West and he gave me some great information about his job. The idea of putting a puzzle together is extremely thrilling to me. He also told me that he would try his best to make some arrangements so I could watch an autopsy. This report took a lot of hard work but it also gave me an opportunity to realize that this is what I want to study and learn more about. I want to be seen as a Hispanic woman who achieves her goals and is able to make an impact on the world by making it a brighter and safer place. Therefore, I plan to pursue a degree in Criminology and become a criminal investigator or a crime scene examiner. My two years at Lee Vining High School have been such a great experience and I’m ...
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