...sources is not easy especially when the essay requires the writer to provide some type of evidence. It makes the assignment frustrating and difficult for the writer to come up with ideas. Even though constructing some words can be challenging it does not mean a writer should not give credit to the author instead provides the readers with information that is not supported. He or she leaves the reader knowing the writer plagiarized and was dishonest in his or her academic work. This leads to the writer being penalized for plagiarism, which is the dishonesty of a person ruining his or her reputation by cheating and stealing any form of work from other people, as well as academic dishonesty that is the person losing the...
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...them off as the product of one’s own mind” (Black & Nolan, 1990, p. 1150). Stated another way, plagiarism is the pilfering of another’s hard work, while taking the credit for oneself. ‘The word ‘plagiarism’ comes from the Latin word plagiarius, which means ‘kidnapper.’ Writers commit plagiarism when they ‘kidnap’ someone else's work without acknowledging the source” (Hooker, 2006). First of all there are countless explanations for why a student may plagiarize, in some cases students are just plain lazy and don’t want to go through the creative process, exerting the meticulous hard work that good writing requires. There are students that suffer from poor time management skills failing to realize the amount of study and research required to deliver a genuine analysis. Likewise there are those that persist in poor note taking habits, leaving out important bits of information here and there causing confusion when it’s time to put it all together. Additionally there are students who are unaware of proper citation technique (What is Plagiarism?, n.d.). Meanwhile, plagiarism falls into one of two categories, one is intentional plagiarism, and the other is unintentional plagiarism. In the case of intentional plagiarism the writer or student knowingly uses the work of someone else, without citing the source or giving credit to the original author, to include internet paper mills, and commonly take place in the case of the lazy student or when the student has poor time management habits...
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...a victim yet is to monitor your credit and keeping your information safe. We talked about not only making sure your information is safe when you’re out in the public, such as only carrying one credit card when you really need it, not carrying your social security card and birth certificate just to name a few, We don’t need to have these things with us everyday. Just keep the common things you need with you every day, like your drive’s license, one credit card, just to be safe. Don’t carry your checking account if you don’t need to write a check because again someone could take that information and really start writing checks that aren’t yours and can start causing a lot of damage down the road. Another things is when you’re checking credit, make sure that you’re checking it on a regular basis. You can get one free copy of your credit report from each of the three credit bureaus each year. So if you want to check that systematically, you could pull your first one from Equifax, and then three or four months later pull the next one from Experian, and then three or four months later pull the next one from Trans Union. So keeping up to date with what’s going on is key when preventing or avoiding identity theft. Another thing you can do if you’re not using your credit, let’s say you already have your house, car, and you’re not actively seeking credit, just put a freeze on your credit. That’s one thing you can do, so if someone’s trying to get credit in your name, you get that phone...
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...Chapter Two: Staff Writers & Story Editors STAFF WRITERS – AN OVERVIEW “Staff writer” is a specially defined entry-level position with specific MBA provisions that allow showrunners to hire you at a minimum of cost and risk. You are on virtual probation to prove yourself a viable member of the in-house team. Currently, you won’t receive an on-screen credit as a staff writer on most shows unless the Company agrees with the WGA to certain conditions. (Call the WGA Credits Dept. if you have questions.) Through WGA rules, you are given a week-to-week contract, which can run six, 10, 20, or 40 weeks. The shorter the guarantee, the more you will be paid per week. If this is your first professional writing job, your employer may have opted to hire you at a lesser amount as part of the WGA incentive plan to encourage showrunners to hire brand-new writers. (See Appendix 6 for contract minimums.) The key concession in accepting a staff writer position is that, unless negotiated otherwise, you will not be paid extra for scripts you write for the show, even though everybody above you is paid full script fees on top of their salaries. The usual arrangement is for you to be hired to write one script, with your script fees being credited against your weekly salary. If you are lucky enough to write more than one script, your script fees continue to be credited against your weekly salary. If, at the 18 end of your tenure on the show, you have earned less in weekly salary than you would’ve...
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...Essay mill From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An essay mill (also term paper mill) is a resource that allows customers to purchase an original piece of writing on a particular topic. Customers provide the company with specific information about the essay, including: a page length, a general topic, and a time frame with which to work. The customer is then charged a certain amount for each page. [1] Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Products and services 3 Legal status 4 Criticism and controversy 5 Strategies for combating academic fraud 6 See also 7 Further reading 8 References History[edit] The ideology behind term paper mills can be dated back to the mid-nineteenth century in which "paper reservoirs" were located in the basements of Fraternity Houses. Otherwise known as "Fraternity files". these essay banks were practices in which students shared term papers and submitted work that had been done by other students.[2] These essay banks inspired the commercialization of ghostwritten essay-writing practices. As early as the 1950s, advertisements were circulating college campus that described services that included ghostwritten work for dissertations, theses, and term papers.[2] In conjunction with this practice, the changing attitudes of students in the 1960s and 1970s started to stray away from diligent and engaged course work because they saw an emphasis on the benefits of community involvement. A new focus on activities outside of the classroom took away from...
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...KEVIN NGIRA 640568 LIT 3351 ASSIGNMENT HOW THE WRITER BRINGS OUT MORAL VALUES IN THE NOVEL TOBACCO ROAD The novel ‘’Tobacco Road’’ is a novel by a talented writer Erskine Caldwell. The novel gives a story of a very unique family and their inability to move on when life turns out not to be as expected. Jeeter Lester has always been, stayed and farmed the land on which his grandfather once grew tobacco, however, a lot of debts have made Jeeter more of a sharecropper on land that the owner no longer wants to farm. Jeeter has a tendency of vowing every year that he will find a way to buy the seed and fertilizer needed to farm the land, but when the time comes he gets excuses not to do the work until too much time passes and planting period is gone. Tobacco Road is a story of two faces, of giving up, a story that can either inspire the reader to work that much harder or continue to give up in the face of adversity. Jeeter has been living on the same plot of land since he came to these world, and even though his standard of living continues to decline until he and his family begin to starve, Jeeter as always stubborn refuses the idea of moving to the city to make a better life for himself and his family by working in a cotton mill. Such a life, he says, would be very hard for him to live. Alongside Jeeter’s work with farming the land is his thinking of his own death. Ada his wife is also thinking about her death. Ada’s main worry is that she does not fish life on the planet still...
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...students can insure their academic integrity. Paraphrasing isn’t simply changing a few words in the information you are trying to convey. To paraphrase effectively, one must restate the information in such a way that it is in your own words. Sometimes, you may have to borrow words or phrases because the author worded them in such a way that you can’t really convey the message without using them. It is okay to do this as long as you give proper credit to the author and their work. Using quotation marks will show that you took that information directly from the original piece of work, and properly citing the information will give credibility to your writing while giving credit to the original author. Properly citing information is another way to avoid plagiarism. When you take information from another piece of work and use it in your own, that information needs to be properly cited to show you haven’t tried to take credit for another’s work. Even when paraphrasing, proper citation needs to occur. The APA Publication Manual says that one should include page...
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...school for so long. You, like myself, are probably telling yourself that you can’t do it. You haven’t been in school in so long; things have changed so much. We all hate the thought of failure; the truth is you won’t know until you try. There are things you can do to help yourself prepare for returning to school, and I’m going to go over some that I have learned along the way. The most important thing you need to know when returning to school is yourself. You can’t be successful if you don’t know your strengths and weaknesses. By taking a look at yourself, you can get a grasp on what areas of learning you might struggle with and what part of learning should come easy. There are many factors that can influence how we learn. These factors can include your behavioral characteristics, how much life experience you have, which of your senses are most predominant and whether or not you are self-directed in your learning (Reuter, 2000). For instance, I know that I need to be shown a few times, then I need just to dive in and try it myself. If I don’t get that hands on experience, all the telling me in the world doesn’t make a difference. Knowing this, I have become better even in my career. Understanding how you learn helps you teach others. If you can spot their learning style, you will be better informed on how you should show them whatever it is you are trying to teach them. Another area that can sway your learning style is ethics, knowing where you stand ethically will help...
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...source, to commit literary theft, or to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source”(Merriam-Webster 2012). When you steal someones words and use them as your own, you are saying that the original author had nothing to do with the material and that you came up with it. A good example would be if I wrote a book about a wizard, named Harry Potter, without providing credit to J.K. Rowling who actually wrote the book. That is essentially the most basic form of plagiarism that everyone...
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...Chapter 6—Delivering Good- and Neutral-News Messages MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which of the following is an advantage of the direct pattern for a good-news message? a.|The emphasis is on the writer.| b.|The organization is persuasive and calls for action.| c.|The receiver gets the details and explanation right away.| d.|The good news in the first sentence puts receivers in a good frame of mind.| ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 86 MSC: Remember 2. What should the organization of business messages be based on? a.|the direct pattern| b.|the indirect pattern| c.|the writer’s mood and personality| d.|a prediction of the receiver’s reaction to the main idea| ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 90 MSC: Remember 3. Which statement about strategies for structuring effective good- and neutral-news messages is true? a.|The strategies should be consistent throughout your writing.| b.|The strategies vary dramatically from one company to another.| c.|The strategies can generally be applied to cultures around the world.| d.|The strategies are generally consistent among North American audiences.| ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 90 MSC: Remember 4. You are writing to ABClothes.com to request an exchange for an ordered shirt that was recently sent to you in the incorrect size. What type of message will it be? a.|a routine claim| b.|a goodwill message| c.|a persuasive request| d.|a negative news message| ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 90 MSC: Higher Order 5. How does the tone of a letter...
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...round. Money is a very essential material in our daily lives. Practically speaking, all of us can’t live without having money in life. Money is business. It is important for us to know much about the business world, its structures and its essential parts. Companies usually communicate through business letter. It is needed that each member of a certain company should know how to understand at least one business letter, most importantly those inter-office memo, which is also a kind of business letter. Also those people in the company that belongs to HR and executive level are required to know how to prepare or put their ideas as well as their concerns to the company using business letter. It is important to know the parts of the business letter. Basically, the business letter contains heading which includes company or organization letterhead, it identifies the company’s image; it also includes its name, address, landline, and e-mail address, at times, there are also some additional data such as names of the top executives, and slogans. Next is the dateline, it is important to know when a letter was written to both the writer and the reader, it is unwise to assume that you and your reader will remember the exact order of events related to a particular matter, includes the date, month and year. There is some business letter that indicates notation, if the letter is personal or confidential, it may be type in all-capital letters or this notation is typed below the date at the left...
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...restriction on loans to value ratio, then they start rising their capital by investing in the commercial loans and speculative real estate, at the began it increased their assets by huge amounts, in some Texas banks it increased by 100% each year. In 1983, 35% of the banks were unprofitable and 9% went bankrupts, the federal insurance gradually run out of money and the banks continue providing bad loans until 1989 the Congress and the president informed about this problem and they interfered in it and solve by providing $50 billions to close failed banks and stop the losses, then the formed new government agency called the resolution trust corporation RTC to deal with miss done by these banks and to refunds the depositors. (1). In easy way we can say the reasons of the U.S 1980’s crisis is the absence of efficient oversight, these banks gave loans to every one without taking concern of how they will pay it back, the main reason in our view is that people could not pay back there loans. (2). The same problem arises in Japan in the 1990’s, after the U.S crisis in 1980’s, which harm the Japanese financial position a little bit, Japan start growing in unusual way, there Nikkei reached 37,189 in January 1990 from 10,000 in 1984, then in 1992 the Nikkei reach 16,000. This financial crisis caused by the over investment and inefficient judgment of the growth they saw that leads them to brag of it,...
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...necessarily have to be included in a message that conveys the you-attitude. True False 6. Wordiness means having more words than the meaning of a message requires. True False 7. Wordiness helps to clarify a message by making it concise and easy to read. True False 8. Adding words to increase you-attitude or develop a reader benefit will make a sentence wordy. True False 9. The word "you" should be used in all business messages in order to convey the you-attitude. True False 10. Long sentences, by definition, are wordy. True False 11. Revisions to sentences in order to include the you-attitude should not change the basic meaning of the message. True False 12. To best convey the you-attitude, a company should refer to a customer's order generically as "Your order" since the customer already knows what he ordered. True False 13. A sentence that focuses on the communicator's work or generosity will convey the you-attitude only if the word "you" is included. True False 14. "We" should never be used in a business situation because it focuses on the writer, not the reader, and therefore makes the reader feel excluded. True False 15. The word "I" in a written document suggests that you are concerned about the organization's problems, needs, and...
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...idea or product derived from an existing source.”( http:plagiarism.org / What is Plagiarism?) Students think it’s just copying or borrowing, but it’s much more serious. The doubt may come into mind of whether words or ideas can really be stolen. The U. S. Government says that in accordance with copyright laws these words and ideas are “intellectual property” (http:plagiarism.org / What is Plagiarism?) and are protected under these laws. Almost anything where it can be questioned if it’s ok to do is plagiarism. “Turning in someone else’s work, copying words from someone without giving credit, failing to put a quotation in quotation marks, giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation, changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit, copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not,”( http:plagiarism.org / What is Plagiarism?) all of this is plagiarism. Because plagiarism is such a broad umbrella of offenses, students think it is hard to make sure they don’t do it, but it is really easy to remedy by simply citing...
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...photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers. We advise all readers that it should not be assumed that present or future recommendations will be profitable or equal the performance of previous recommendations. The reader should recognize that risk is involved in any option or security investment, and they should not assume that any formula, method, chart, theory or philosophy will result in profitable results or equal past performances. This publication should only be used by sophisticated investors who are fully aware of the risks in options trading. A reading of the options booklet prepared by the Options Clearing Corporation is recommended before trading options. No solicitation to buy or sell securities or options is implied. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but there is...
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