Plagiarism Assignment

Plagiarism Assignment Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of someone else as your own, without proper acknowledgment of the source. Plagiarism ranges from copying word-for-word, to paraphrasing a passage and changing only a few words, to quoting or paraphrasing without credit. Whether you quote actual words or use ideas borrowed from any source, you must reference the source in your essay or project. Not documenting your sources is considered plagiarism and has severe consequences. In college courses, you are expected to document your sources properly and consistently. A lot of students do not intend to plagiarize. In reality, students realize that citing sources actually helps build their credibility for an audience and grasp information significant to their topic. I learned a few tips from reading on the Purdue OWL website that can help to not only avoid plagiarism, but even improve the efficiency and organization of researching and writing. URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/03/ To find my first article, I used the PowerPoint provided on Angel to learn how to utilize the ProQuest PsycINFO database through the WSU library system. I went to the WSU library website, clicked on journal articles, then searched "Database By Subject", scrolled down to the psychology databases, and selected PsycINFO. Once on the PsycINFO search page, I checked the peer-reviewed box and I decided to search about "Placebo effects". But a few thousand results showed up in the search and after glancing at a few article titles, I was not really interested in any of the articles that came up. So I changed my search to "Placebo pills". My search came up with 347 results. I looked through the first couple pages and chose the article: Are the colors and shapes of current psychotropics designed to maximize the placebo response? I read the abstract and it caught my attention. I was very interested in how the appearance of a pill could influence a person's ideal about