Computer Science Tutorial

Academic Honesty Exercise

Due: Tuesday, September 28

This exercise asks you to demonstrate your understanding of elements of citation, quotation, and paraphrasing by using specific source to answer the following questions. All citations should follow the APA style outlined in The College Writer's Reference, Third Edition by Toby Fulwiler and Alan R. Hayakawa, Prentice Hall, 2002.

  1. Read the Grinnell College Policy on Academic Honesty from the Grinnell College Student Handbook.

  2. Read Judy Hunter's Exercise on Citation and Paraphrase.

  3. Complete Section II in Judy Hunter's Exercises, basing your work on the following passages. For each part, you must use appropriate attribution following APA style. Also, you must compile a Works Cited for this exercise, again following APA style.

    1. Paraphrase: Write a paragraph that paraphrases the first part of Section 4.6 in Copeland's book, starting at the bottom of page 79 and continuing through the paragraph after the numbered list on page 80. Also, include a full citation for this material in a list of Works Cited.
    2. Block Quotation: Go to the home page for the Mathematics and Computer Science Department (http://www.cs.grinnell.edu), then click on the link for ``The Mathematics Local-Area Network (MathLAN), and then on the link for MathLAN workstations. This page provides biographical material for various famous mathematicians, computer sciences, and physicists for which the MathLAN workstations are named. About halfway down the page, find a link for Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, for whom our Web server is named. Use this material to write a paragraph that includes a block quotation.
    3. Snippets:3 Construct your own paragraph using snippets, based on the Web page obtained by going to the home page for the Mathematics and Computer Science Department (http://www.cs.grinnell.edu) and clicking on the logo at the top of the page.
    4. Using an Idea: Write a paragraph that uses an idea you got from Copeland's Section 8.8.

  4. Sign and return the Statement on Academic Honesty at Grinnell.

You must use word processing software to prepare your assignment, and you must run a spelling checker on your work. (The exercise will not be accepted if it contains obvious spelling errors which would be caught by a spelling checker.) You must turn in 3 copies of your exercise, as printed by the word processing software on a laser-quality printer.


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base assignment created August 23, 1997
last revised September 28, 2004
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