EXERCISE 54–1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

EXERCISE 54–1Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

The great and abiding fear of the South was of slave revolt. . . . For many Southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and rapine. The South was haunted throughout the war by a deep and horrible fear that the North would send—or was sending—agitators among their slaves to incite them to insurrection. That no such barbarous scheme was resorted to by the Union is a credit to the humanity and good sense of the Lincoln administration, although it was urged enough by some radicals.

From Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. 1956. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1987. Print.

[The source passage is from page 158.]

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EXERCISE 54–1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers - 1 of 5: Civil War historian Dudley Taylor Cornish observes that many Southerners were so terrified of slave revolts that the sight of armed black men filled them with fear (158).

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EXERCISE 54–1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers - 2 of 5: Many Southerners found it impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and rapine.

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EXERCISE 54–1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers - 3 of 5: Civil War historian Dudley Taylor Cornish asserts that “for many Southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and rapine” (158).

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EXERCISE 54–1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers - 4 of 5: During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration had the “humanity and good sense” not to send “agitators among [the] slaves to incite them to insurrection.”

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EXERCISE 54–1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers - 5 of 5: Although the Union ultimately sent black soldiers to the South, the Southerners’ fears that the troops would incite a slave uprising were unfounded, in part because of the restraint of the Lincoln administration (Cornish 158).