Chapter 309. Exercise MLA 2-5

309.1

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Exercise MLA 2-5
Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
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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’s sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

The conversations in the [James Fenimore] Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears. To believe that such talk really ever came out of people’s mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man’s mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.

From Twain, Mark. “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.” Selected Shorter Writings of Mark Twain, edited by Walter Blair, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, pp. 227-38.

[The source passage is from page 236.]

Question 309.1

Correct. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed the exact words from the source in quotation marks and identifies the author in a signal phrase and the page number in parentheses.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed the exact words from the source in quotation marks and identifies the author in a signal phrase and the page number in parentheses.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
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Question 309.2

Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. The student has paraphrased the source without using its language or structure and has credited the author and cited the page number on which the ideas can be found.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
Correct. This sentence is acceptable. The student has paraphrased the source without using its language or structure and has credited the author and cited the page number on which the ideas can be found.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
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Question 309.3

Sorry. This sentence is plagiarized. Although the student has credited the source with a signal phrase and a page number in parentheses, the student paraphrases the source too closely, using the same or similar words (seldom, faithfully, stick, wander) and borrowing the sentence structure from the source.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
Correct. This sentence is plagiarized. Although the student has credited the source with a signal phrase and a page number in parentheses, the student paraphrases the source too closely, using the same or similar words (seldom, faithfully, stick, wander) and borrowing the sentence structure from the source.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
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Question 309.4

Sorry. This sentence is plagiarized. The student’s paraphrase uses language from the source without quotation marks (irrelevancies, embarrassed, relevancy) and a sentence structure that is too close to that in the source. In addition, the student does not credit the author of the ideas or the page number on which they can be found.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
Correct. This sentence is plagiarized. The student’s paraphrase uses language from the source without quotation marks (irrelevancies, embarrassed, relevancy) and a sentence structure that is too close to that in the source. In addition, the student does not credit the author of the ideas or the page number on which they can be found.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
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Question 309.5

Sorry. This sentence is plagiarized. The student has used language from the source (modern ears, wandered all around and arrived nowhere) without enclosing it in quotation marks.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
Correct. This sentence is plagiarized. The student has used language from the source (modern ears, wandered all around and arrived nowhere) without enclosing it in quotation marks.
For more help, see section MLA-2.
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