Saturday's Email to the Class

Hello Everyone- I am a bit more than half way through your annotated bibliographies and am finding that many of you did not use your own words. Some, not at all. APA style is not done. Kellie is the only one so far who did APA style correctly(so far, from the ones I have read).

I want to give grace in this situation-plagiarism is a big deal. It still counts as plagiarism if you wrote the first sentence of the paragraph and then pasted in the abstract to the article. For all of the use of someone else's writing, I see few quotation marks. That includes the DSM V-TR.

This was a very simple assignment. You will be using it for your paper.

I suggest you go back and have a look at your work and decide whether or not you have done any of the above and want to make sure you get full credit for your work because seriously, I have three ZEROS sitting here. No credit. Others, not much better than a zero.

You are welcome to bring in revised work on Monday...no grace past Monday as we have run out of time. There should be no questions at this point, we discussed it in class. Not doing so could have a serious impact on your grade. But, plagiarism should have a serious impact on one's grade.

The citations need to be APA style (link in your syllabus if you are confused) and the summary of the article needs to be a paragraph (at least) IN YOUR OWN WORDS. When you use someone else's words, even a few words, quote them.

If you will be bringing in new work on Monday, please drop me an email to let me know...I will be happy to avoid wasting my time on work that is not yours.

Thank you for your quick response to this.

KH