Our Sample Texts

In order to avoid plagiarism one first needs to know how to recognize it. So first we’ll look at original sources from a Political Science text, a photograph from the National Archives of Canada, and a graph from Statistics Canada and then some samples, using these sources, of how plagiarism might occur in student writing and how to steer clear of plagiarizing. [Credits]

  Our Sample Text:

Hartz has argued correctly that it is characteristic of fragment societies to be intolerant of rival ideologies. Our argument is that Canada is not a fragment society, but exhibits the ideological diversity of European societies, although it has a more liberal cast. This toleration, born of the necessity to live with and listen to the other voices in the ideological conversation, has deeply affected Canadian political life. Thus, we have noted a willingness in all of the major Canadian ideologies to be open, sometimes too open, to developments elsewhere. Canadian Liberalism had, by the 1919 convention, accepted the modifications of liberalism suggested in Britain by Green and Hobhouse, and had begun to develop a form of welfare liberalism in this country. The Conservative Party willingly accepted the lead of Disraeli and the British Tory Party in the nineteenth century. More recently, it has turned its attention to the United States,… (Christian and Campbell, 1990, p.283)

  Our Sample Photograph:

"Troop Front" Canadian Mounted Rifles with Second Contingent
South Africa (Source: Canada. Library and Archives Canada.
photo # PA-028895)

  Our Sample Graph:

(Source: Canada. Statistics Canada, 2004)

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• What is Plagiarism?



• A Case Study



• Our Sample Texts



• Types of Plagiarism



• Quiz: Plagiarism



• Avoiding Plagiarism



• Quiz: Citation and Referencing



• Paraphrasing and Summarizing
  
  
  • Practice Exercise
  
  
  
• Quiz: Summarizing