Assignment Purpose: This assignment will give you some practice in determining n

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Assignment Purpose:

This assignment will give you some practice in determining not what constitutes plagiarism.

Assignment Description:

The following paragraph is from an article titled, “Hydraulic Fracturing Overview:
Growth of the Process and Safe Drinking Water Concerns” in the March 1, 2012
issue of Congressional Digest:

The use of hydraulic fracturing continues to increase significantly, as more
easily accessible oil and gas reservoirs have declined and companies move to develop
unconventional oil and gas formations. Hydraulic fracturing is used for oil
and/or gas production in all 33 U.S. states where oil and natural gas production
takes place. According to industry estimates, hydraulic fracturing has been applied
to more than 1 million wells nationwide. (p. 71)

State whether or not the following sentences have plagiarized the passage. If they did plagiarize the passage explain why it is plagiarism?
a. As of March 2012, hydraulic fracturing has been applied to more than 1 million
wells nationwide.
b. Hydraulic fracturing has become more prevalent nationwide. More than one million
wells have been created.
c. According to the Congressional Digest (2012), more than one million wells in the United
States use hydraulic fracturing (p. 71).

Activity from page 85 of Hosier, A., Bullis, D., Bernnard, D., Bobish, G., Holden, I., Hecker, J., . . . Jacobson, T. (2014). The information literacy user’s guide: An open, online textbook. Retrieved from http://textbooks.opensuny.org/the-information-literacy-users-guide-an-open-online-textbook/ , Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0

Explanation / Answer

Sentences A and C are the example of PLAGIARISM and the sentence B is free of plagiarism

STATEMENT a) In this statement the partial content of the passage is copied directly and in an intent to make it look like the writers work

STATEMENT b) In this statement the writer undoubtely read from the same passage but comprehend the information and given an analysis in his own words, Thus it is free from plagiarism

STATEMENT c) In this statement writer does not bother to explain the things but directly pointed to the passage and copied the information directly from passage,

Plagiarism is the act when you try to show that the text or documents that you have provided are yours .Plagiarism shows no research just writing the content as you have read.

What plagiarism does not include is you to read the passage and then comprehend it in your own language to show some effort of research that you have done.

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