EXERCISE 36–3Avoiding plagiarism in APA 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.

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

Mass psychogenic illness, or epidemic hysteria, is usually defined as a set of unexplained symptoms affecting two or more people; in most cases, victims share a theory of some sort about what is causing their distress. Often, somebody smells something funny, which may or may not be a chemical and which may or may not be there, but which in any case does not account for the subsequent symptoms. Relapses tend to happen when the people affected congregate again. And, notably, the mechanism of contagion is quite different from what you would expect in, say, a viral illness: symptoms spread by “line of sight,” which is to say, people get sick as they see other people getting sick. Some element of unusual psychological stress is often at play. . . . Adolescents and preadolescents are particularly susceptible. And girls are more likely to fall ill than boys.

From Talbot, M. (2002, June 2). Hysteria hysteria. The New York Times Magazine, pp. 42-47, 58-59, 96, 98, 101-102.

[The source passage is from pages 58-59. The word Adolescents begins page 59.]

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