Situation

Yes/No    

If yes, what do you do? If no, why?

1. You are writing new insights about your own experiences.

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2. You are using an editorial from your school's newspaper with which you disagree.

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3. You use some information from a source without ever quoting it directly.

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4. You have no other way of expressing the exact meaning of a text without using the original source verbatim.

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5. You mention that many people in your discipline belong to a certain organization.

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6. You want to begin your paper with a story that one of your classmates told about her experiences in Bosnia.

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7. The quote you want to use is too long, so you leave out a couple of phrases.

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8. You really like the particular phrase somebody else made up, so you use it.

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