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.
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Read the Grinnell College Policy on Academic Honesty
from the Grinnell College Student Handbook.
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Read Judy Hunter's Exercise on Citation and Paraphrase.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Using an Idea: Write a paragraph that uses an idea
you got from Copeland's Section 8.8.
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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.
This document is available on the World Wide Web as
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~walker/courses/tutorial.fa04/writing/acad-honesty-exercise.html