EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers

EXERCISE APA 2–2Avoiding 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’s sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

Table 8.1 lists the main reported causes of accidental death or injury for seven traditional peoples for whom summaries are available. All seven live in or near the tropics and practise at least some hunting and gathering, but two (New Guinea Highlanders and the Kaulong) obtain most of their calories by farming. . . .

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We note first that Table 8.1 makes no mention of the main causes of accidental death in modern Westernized societies: in descending sequence of death toll, we are killed by cars (Plate 44), alcohol, guns, surgery, and motorcycles, of which none except occasionally alcohol is a hazard for traditional peoples. One might wonder whether we have merely traded our old hazards of lions and tree-falls for our new hazards of cars and alcohol. But there are two other big differences between environmental hazards in modern societies and in traditional societies besides the particular hazards involved. One difference is that the cumulative risk of accidental death is probably lower for modern societies, because we exert far more control over our environment even though it does contain new hazards of our own manufacture such as cars. The other difference is that, thanks to modern medicine, the damage caused by our accidents is much more often repaired before it kills us or inflicts life-long incapacity. When I broke a tendon in my hand, a surgeon splinted my hand, which healed and regained full function within six months, but some New Guinea friends who experienced tendon and bone breaks ended up with no or improper healing and were crippled for life.

From Diamond, J. (2012). The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? New York, NY: Viking.

[The source passage is from pages 278-79; the second paragraph begins on page 279. The table is from page 279.]

Excerpt from The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? New York, NY: Viking. Reprinted by permission.

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 1 of 10: Diamond (2012) noted that the causes of accidental death and injury for seven groups of traditional peoples are mostly environmental, such as falling trees, animals and snakes, and drowning (Table 8.1, p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 2 of 10: Diamond (2012) pointed out that traditional societies tend not to have the same main causes of accidental death as modern Westernized societies: “cars, alcohol, guns, surgery, and motorcycles” (p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 3 of 10: According to Diamond (2012), while most accidental deaths in traditional societies are caused by natural events, most accidental deaths in industrialized societies are caused by “hazards of [human] manufacture” (p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 4 of 10: Of the seven traditional peoples listed by Diamond (2012), six groups are susceptible to death and injury from falling out of trees or from trees falling on them (Table 8.1, p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 5 of 10: Diamond (2012) addressed the question of why traditional peoples are more likely to die in natural accidents than people in modern societies: we exert far more control over our environment, and we have access to modern medicine (p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 6 of 10: Diamond pointed out that not only do people in Westernized societies have better access to lifesaving medical treatment, but they also have more control over their environments and are therefore less likely to be killed in a natural accident.

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 7 of 10: As Diamond (2012) explained, “The cumulative risk of accidental death is probably lower for modern societies, because we exert far more control over our environment” (p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 8 of 10: Death by trees, either falling from one or having one fall on a person, is one of the major causes of accidental death worldwide (Diamond, 2012, p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 9 of 10: One major difference, Diamond (2012) explained, is that thanks to modern medicine, the damage caused by our accidents is much more often fixed before it kills or permanently incapacitates us (p. 279).

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EXERCISE APA 2–2 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 10 of 10: Diamond (2012) illustrated his argument with a personal experience: “When I broke a tendon in my hand, a surgeon splinted my hand, which healed and regained full function . . . , but some New Guinea friends who experienced tendon and bone breaks . . . were crippled for life” (p. 279).