Plagarism

• Review Walden University’s policy on plagiarism on the
  university’s website. Consider the definition of plagiarism and specific
  actions characterized as plagiarism.
• Review the course media program “Walden University: Introduction
  to Scholarly Writing: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity.” Think about
  how you might follow academic integrity guidelines to avoid plagiarism.
• Review Chapters 1 and 6 of the course text, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, and review the Plagiarism 101 website, focusing on how to avoid plagiarism.
• Read the original passage below.

Doctors, whose first allegiance is supposed to be to their
patients, have traditionally stood between drug company researchers and
trusting consumers. Yet unless there is evidence of misconduct (the
deliberate misrepresentation of something as fact by someone who knows
it is not), it is very difficult to discover and virtually impossible to
prove that a piece of biomedical research has been tainted by conflict
of interest. No study is perfect, and problems arise in the labs of even
the most conscientious and honest researchers. Although biomedical
research incorporates rigorous scientific rules and is often critically
scrutinized by peers, the information can nevertheless be warped—by
ending a study because the results are disappointing; changing rules
mid-study; not trying to publish negative results; publicizing
preliminary results even with final and less positive results in hand;
skimming over or even not acknowledging drawbacks; and, especially,
casting the results in the best light or, as scientists say, buffing
them (Crossen, 1994, pp. 166–167).

• Next, read the following passage, which was written by a student
  who wants to use this source in a paper and is trying not to plagiarize.
  Assess the student’s work for plagiarism:

“Consumers must trust that the research that has gone into the
manufacture of new drugs is safe. But it is hard to know if a conflict
of interest between doctors, researchers, and the drug company
stockholders has tainted the results. Biomedical researchers incorporate
strict rules of science into their work, which is examined by peers.
Yet the resulting information can be warped for five reasons: ending a
study too soon, not publishing negative results, publishing results too
early, skimming over or ignoring drawbacks, and ‘buffing’ the results by
showing them in the best light” (Crossen, 1994, p. 167).

Submit a 1- to 2-page paper that includes the following:

• An explanation of how to recognize plagiarism
• An explanation, including a justification of your
  explanation, of the extent to which the student plagiarized the original
  source (first passage) in the above (second) passage
• Two sentences from the passage you think are clear
  examples of plagiarism and an example of how to rephrase them in your
  own words or an example of a direct quote, which uses source material
  word for word, with proper use of quotation marks and a standard APA
  citation
• A specific explanation of how to avoid plagiarism in your own writing