This Pass or Prepared? is brought to you, courtesy of the Social Science Research Institute Council, from their Workshop on Wednesday, June 14, 2000. Earl Babbie, whose name many of you will recognize from discussions on methods and statistics, has written an essay on plagiarism.

Based on Earl Babbie's essay, answer the following questions:

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1. Is plagiarism an issue in theory?

2. Theory is about thinking, and thinking critically. Why does that make it even more important to guard against taking credit for someone else's ideas?

3. We hate to be "picky," but there's a spelling dilemma here. Three words sound alike, but they are spelled very differently: site, cite, sight. Can you write a sentence using all three words?

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   Figurine by Rudiger Appel. Notice that you can see three effects in the animation. Either the Variation on the Kandinsky figurine appears to turn in a clockwise direction, or in a counterclockwise direction, or it appears to open and close. Can you see all three effects? Try. Fascinated? Link to Appel's site and then link to the background he provides. Scroll down until you find a link to background.

Copright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata, June 2000. "Fair Use" encouraged.