Academic Honesty Exercises

Summary: In groups and alone, practice skills for ethical citation of other's writings and ideas.

Goals:

• Practice skills for ethical citation.
• Gain experience with citation styles from the humanities, the sciences, and social studies.

Due: 

• Part A is due Monday, September 15 at 5 p.m.
• Part B is due Thursday, September 18 at 8 a.m. (in class)
• Part C is due Thursday, September 25 at 8 a.m. (in class)

Assignment

In-class exercise (Tuesday, September 9)

You will work in teams of 3-4 to complete the exercises in the Academic Honesty booklet. Each group will start with a different exercise.

• Group 1 will start with paraphrasing and MLA style (p. 29).
• Group 2 will start with using block quotations and Chicago style (p. 30),
• Group 3 will start with using snippets and APA style (p. 31).
• Group 4 will start with using an idea from a source and APA style (p. 32).

The Grinnell College Writing Lab (http://web.grinnell.edu/writinglab) provides links to a number of useful online resources, including resources about citation styles. I also have a copy of the The College Writer's Reference which you can browse.

Please type your response to the assigned exercise during class. Include the list of works cited. Please also include links to any helpful resources you find for your citation style. 

When your group is done with your assigned exercise, please flag me down so I can look at your work. Once I have approved it, print 14 copies of your response to the printer named Duerer so you can share your response with me and with the other groups.  Then, go on to look at the other exercises.

Part A (due Monday, September 15 at 5 p.m.)

Use APA citation style for the following exercises. 

Please complete these exercises on your own. However, you may ask for help (from peers, from me, from the Writing Lab) to understand APA citation style. If you do so, you must acknowledge that help.

1. Write a paragraph that paraphrases the section "Do Templates Stifle Creativity?" from They Say, I Say (p. 10-12). Put the source in proper format for a works cited list.

2. Use only the top two paragraphs of p. 164 in "Main Street and the Railroad" to write a paragraph that includes a block quotation. Put the source in proper format for a works cited list. (Note that this is a book chapter. The Library of Congress copyright information is on the second page of the handout.)

3. Write a paragraph using snippets from p. 22-24 of Suburban Nation. Put the source in proper format for a works cited list.

4. Try your hand at citing an idea from another source. Use the section "Getting What We Wished For" from Bruegmann's article "How Sprawl Got a Bad Name." Put the source in proper format for a works cited list.

Part B (due Thursday, September 18 at 8 a.m.)

Revise your responses to Part A to use MLA citation style.

Part C (due Thursday, September 25 at 8 a.m.)

Revise your responses to Part A to use Chicago Manual of Style (Social Studies/Scientific) citation style.

What to turn in

Type your responses, including the works cited. Please 1.5- or double-space the document and use at least 1" margins.

Print these out and either bring them to my office (Part A) or to class (Parts B and C).

Evaluation

I will evaluate yourwork on the serious with which you take the assignment and the correctness and consistency of your citations.

Janet Davis (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)