Content of the Process Essay in the Portfolio in COMM150
The Process Essay with the remainder of the Portfolio is due in hardcopy during the Lab on the following dates: |
Monday July 26 |
The Process Essay does three things, which are also shown in your handout, “wks11-12_process_essay_format” --
First section: Example primary section headings could be: “Avoiding Plagiarism”; or “Crediting Sources”
1. Explain the way in which you would be careful to avoid plagiarism.
2. Describe the procedures, such as APA rules, for providing in-text citations and References. What (and whom) do you identify in an in-text citation and in a Reference.
3. Explain the need for crediting sources, whether you quote or paraphrase content from a source.
(If you use the one required source in this section, remember to paraphrase content from the source. Alternatively you can quote a maximum of one sentence from the source. In either case you should credit the source in an in-text citation and in a Reference. Do not use a source, which appears in a handout.)
Second section: Example section headings could be: “The Purpose of U.S. Copyright Law”; or “Copyright Protection and the Rights Given to Authors/Artists”
1. In your own words describe the purpose of U.S. Copyright Law and the five rights given to authors/artists.
Do not copy content from a handout!
(If you use the one required source in this section, remember to paraphrase content from the source. Alternatively you can quote a maximum of one sentence from the source. In either case, you should credit the source. Do not re-use a source that appeared in a handout.)
Third section: Example section headings: “How I would Use Fair Use Criteria;” or”Following the Fair Use Guidelines “
a. Identify each of the Fair Use Criteria.
b. Explain what a fair use and an illegal use is for each Fair Use Guideline in your own words.
c. Provide an example of how you would follow each of the four Fair Use Guidelines in your work at the College, or in your workplace. A better score is obtained with examples of how you would follow the guidelines in the workplace for which you are training.
(If you choose to use the one required source in this section, remember to paraphrase any content in the source. Alternatively, you can quote a maximum of one sentence per source. In either case, you must credit the source. Do not re-use a source that appeared in a handout.)
Where can I go for the Content for the 1st Section about Avoiding Plagiarism?
In the first section of the Process Essay describe how you would avoid the charge of “plagiarism.” First you might define the word. Then you should describe the need to provide credit for any source from which you take content, whether you paraphrase or quote. In a research essay you need also to credit a source at which the reader can confirm any facts that you state. Describe your use of a standard for crediting sources, such as the APA standard. Explain how you would create in-text citations and References. What do you place inside an in-text citation and inside a Reference?
You acquired much practice in using the APA standard in your earlier essays. You can look at the handouts for those essays in order to refresh your memory about how to credit articles and Web sites. Also you can read the pages in your textbooks, Research Strategies, and APA Style Guide. Your handouts for the format of the essays identify relevant pages in those books.
You can use a source about plagiarism and intellectual honesty from the Internet in the first section of the essay, or in the other two sections. Do not re-use a source in any of the handouts or from an earlier essay. The Web has hundreds of great sources on intellectual or academic honesty.
What is the Content for the 2nd section about
U.S. Copyright Law, and the Rights Given to Authors & Artists?
U.S. Copyright Law, and the Rights Given to Authors & Artists?
In the second section of the Process Essay, summarize briefly the purpose of U.S. Copyright Law, and the five legal rights provided by the law for authors and artists.
Use your own words. You can paraphrase content from the handout, “wk10_plagiarism, copyright.” Do not copy/paste the content from the handout. Alternatively you can find many Web sites about copyright law. If you use an Internet source for the second section of the Process Essay about copyright, remember that you must cite the source properly in-text and in a Reference. If you take a sentence literally from an Internet source, limit the quotation to a maximum of one sentence. Do not use a source, which appears already in a handout. Use your search skills to find your own information about copyright law and the rights given to authors and artists. The Web has hundreds of fine sites about copyright law and the legal rights of authors and artists under that law.
What is the Content for the 3rd Section
about Following the Fair Use Guidelines?
These are the four Fair Use Guidelines, which we discussed in an earlier class:
The Fair Use Guidelines of Copyright Law:
· The purpose of the person who borrows the material
o Acceptable purposes: Teaching, research, news reporting
o Illegal purposes: Making money form the sale of a work; not giving credit to author of original work
· The amount of the material to be used
o Acceptable amount: Small quantity; portion is not crucial to entire work
o Unacceptable amount: Large or entire work used; the part of the original to be used is crucial to the new work’s success
· The nature of the material to be used
o Acceptable nature of the material to be used: Factual; important to education
o Unacceptable nature of the material to be used: Very creative work (art, music, literary, film, plays, fiction)
· The effect of a person’s use of the material in question
o Acceptable effect: No major impact on the market; user legally owns a copy of the original work
o Unacceptable effect: Could replace the selling of original work; many copies made, or used for a long time, or made available on the Web.
In our class on plagiarism and copyright we visited a good Web site with a checklist, which can be useful for your discussion of the Fair Use Guidelines -- Fair Use Analysis Worksheet . Use the worksheet to help you paraphrase fair and unfair uses under the four factors of Purpose, Amount, Nature, & Effect on the market.
In the third section of the Process Essay identify the four criteria (factors) of the Fair Use Guidelines. Identify a sample fair use and a sample unfair use for each of the criteria – My Purpose in taking someone’s material; the Quantity I want to use from someone else; the Nature of the material, which I am interested in taking from a source; and the Effect on the market, when I use particular material, which someone else created.
Do not copy and paste a list, which appears already in the class handouts or in a Web site. Paraphrase each guideline. Describe in your own words a sample fair use and a sample unfair use for each of the guidelines. A better score is awarded for explanations of how you might follow the Fair Use guidelines in a workplace.
Your one required citation inside the Process Essay can appear in this third section of the Process Essay. Find and credit a source, which does not appear in your handouts, or a source to which they link. Use your search skills to find your own information. Remember that an in-text citation requires a corresponding entry in a list of References.
How do I Create the List of References and Credit an Image?
The Process Essay must have at least one Reference. Use a source in any of the three sections of the essay. Be sure that the source is not copied simply from an instructor’s handout. Also do not repeat a source to which the handouts link. The Internet has thousands of great Web sites, which you can find by using the appropriate keywords, phrases, and search strings, such as – “intellectual honesty”; “academic honesty”; “plagiarism”; “U.S. Copyright Law”’; “copyright law AND “rights of authors”; and “fair use guidelines.” Do not use the Wikipedia as a cited source. The Wikipedia can serve simply as a place to get an overview of the topics in the essay.
A sample list of References for a Process Essay is shown, below. The student, Tim Tebrow, who created the list of two References, acquired an image, which he copied, pasted, and cropped on his title page. The student cited the image in-text below the Right corner of the image on his title page. He used parentheses, as we do normally for in-text citations, such as – (Sentara Hospital, 2008).
Then Tim provided a full Reference for the image from the Sentara Hospital in his list of References. A Reference requires the name of the image. If your image does not have a name in Flickr, then you should provide your own description of the image. A description is placed in brackets without italics. Your textbook, APA Style Guide, provides an example on p. 27 for citing an image. The textbook uses the date of retrieval. That date is omitted in the current APA standard.
This student provides a second Reference for the single, required Internet source. He used the second Reference to cite a source used early in his essay in the section about avoiding plagiarism.
