Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Research Skills: Plagiarism Activity


As we begin work on our Supreme Court Analysis Papers, we are going to start by learning more about plagiarism.  
  1. First go to this website:  http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/ Be sure to click on the red boxes to answer the questions on find out more information.
  2. Next check out this PowerPoint on plagiarism.  http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/plagiarism.aspx
  3. Now go to this site http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/plagiarismGame.aspx and play the game.  When you finish, take a screen shot.  Paste it in Word and under the picture tell me 5 things you learned about plagiarism today.  This will be graded.  If you do not know how to take a screenshot, there are directions on the Dropbox site, called, “to save a screenshot” in the AP Gov folder. Also directions on http://take-a-screenshot.org/
  4. Finally upload the document from Word with your screenshot and 5 things you learned onto dropbox.  Directions for uploading on dropbox can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/90/en (scroll down for the on the website directions).
Go to www.dropbox.com

Username: cgdelong@bedford.k12.va.us
Password: ilovegov
Folder: AP Gov, then Plagiarism Activity 

Afterwards, you can research court cases.  Narrow down to the ones you are interested in.  You could start here:  http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Landmark/Cases


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