Part 2: Plagiarism

1. Last summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate pizza at Gino's East.
Correct. It doesn’t need to be sited it a personal experiences

2. Americans want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody. 
Correct, does not need to be cited common knowledge

3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework.
Incorrect needs to be cited, unless they gathered there on data for the survey

Numbers 4, 5, and 6 all refer to the following passage from Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail":
You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

4. Martin Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a surfacy type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes.
Correct does not need to be cited

5. Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's "white power structure" left African-Americans there "no alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail" para. 5).
Correct in text citation

6. In "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham, your statement fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."
Incorrect needs to be cited more clearly, with an in text citation.

7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean.
Correct does not need to cited it is personal experience.

8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings. 
Does not need to be cited.

SUMMARY

This helped me understand why things need to be cited and how to do it properly. This is a good second unit it is important because a lot of people don’t understand how to properly cite information. I have been careful up to this point in citing but I think this unit made me more aware of possible mistakes I might make.