2. Icebreaker ActivityScenario: reviewing five or six websites oncontraception quickly, then using what you learned towrite up a paragraph on the topic to submit forhomework in your sociology class. 3. The Ethical Use of Sources 4. DocumentationSystem of citation used to give credit to the creatorsand authors of images, ideas, quotations, andorganization of ideas that you incorporate into yourown work.Examples of documentation styles: MLA, APA, andChicago. 5. The Unethical Use of SourcesPlagiarism: using the ideas, words, or organization ofideas of others without giving credit.Misrepresenting or distorting a source to make yourargument look better or because of confusion overthe use of sources within the source itself. 6. Back to the ScenarioScenario: reviewing five or six websites oncontraception quickly, then combining everything youlearned to write up a paragraph on the topic to submitfor a homework assignment in your sociology class.Share your responses. 7. Scenarios: Ethical or Unethical?A. Cutting and pasting four sentences from a Wikipedia article into a paperB. Copying another students answers from a workbook assignmentC. Including this factalmost 40% of Americans believe the country is headedin the right directionfrom a nightly news video clip that you saw online in apaper.D. Working through a set of homework equations with three or four membersof your math classE. Including the quotation To be or not to be: that is the question, identifiedas coming from Shakespeare, in a paper on suicide 8. Unethical A, B, CEach of these examples is an example of cheatingbecause the person ultimately represented the worksubmitted as his or her own. 9. EthicalD and EOption D is an example of collaborationworkingtogether to learn.Option E is cites the source (Shakespeare) and relies oncommon knowledge (most people know that thequotation comes from Shakespeare). 10. Next StepsDo a web search on MLA and APA documentation tolearn more about these styles of citation.Try a citation machine like Son of Citation Machine orNoodleTools to work through the mechanics ofcitation.Take a look at the Purdue OWL website ondocumentation for more information and practice..
