Citation and Academic Honesty

TUT 100.32 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman

Summary:

You will practice various strategies for using and referring to the text and ideas of others

Purpose:

 

• To help you recognize and appropriate techniques for entering the scholarly dialogue,
• To fulfill the college's Academic Honesty Exercise requirement

Expected Time:

4-6 hours

Due:

Thursday 16 September 2010

Turn In:

Type your answers to all parts below that ask you to do a task other than read. Bring 4 copies to class (you will turn in one to me and use the others with group members).

Background

• Read the Grinnell College Academic Honesty Booklet, sections 1-3 and 5.

Exercises

Paraphrasing

1. Read "Paraphrasing" on pages 20-22 of your Academic Honesty book.
2. Identify one example where the authors use paraphrasing in Wild Justice. What do you think makes this a good example?
3. Re-read the first section of Wallach and Allen's Chapter 2 entitled "An Engineering Imperative?" (pp. 25-33).
4. Construct an entry for the book Moral Machines in APA format as for a list of works cited.
5. Assume you are writing a paper in which you want to use Wallach and Allen's passage to build upon the importance of value-sensitive technology. Write one paragraph (up to five sentences) that parapharases Wallach and Allen's argument and cite your source appropriately in the text.

Using Block Quotation

1. Read "Using Block Quotation" on pages 22-25 of your Academic Honesty book.
2. Identify one example where Wallach and Allen use block quotation. How have the authors integrated it into their own words and context?
3. Skim Chapter 2 of Bekoff and Pierce to remind yourself of its contents.
4. Construct an entry for the book Wild Justice in APA format as for a list of works cited.
5. Write a paragraph, perhaps comparing or contrasting the ideas of the authors from our two texts, in which you use a long quote from Bekoff and Pierce in a block quotation style, using proper in-text citation practices.

Using Snippets

1. Read "Using snippets" on pages 25-26 of your Academic Honesty book.
2. Identify one example from either text that uses a snippet. Why do you think the authors have used the snippet you identified?
3. Write a short paragraph, perhaps showing how the two sets of authors might be in dialogue, that includes at least one "snippet" from each text, using proper APA-style citations.

Using an Idea from Another Source

1. Read "Using an idea from another source" on pages 27-28 of your Academic Honesty book.
2. Identify one example from either text that cites an idea from another source. That is, it must not be a paraphrase (and surely not a block quote or snippet). Why do you think it was important for the authors to cite the idea in the example you identified?
3. Write a short paragraph in which you develop an idea that is connected to, but not directly derived from one of the two texts. Use APA style in-text citations to give credit for the idea, but make it clear that the idea is yours, and differs from what the original authors say in the paragraph. Use the APA style of citation to produce appropriate in-text citations.

Acknowledgment