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Determine whether the student version following each original…
Determine whether the student version following each original excerpt is an example of correct scholarship or of plagiarism. If it is an example of plagiarism, use a separate sheet of paper to explain the reason and then write your own version without plagiarizing. Write the capital letter “C” if you think that the student version is correctly documented and “I,” if you think it’s not. Explain your reasoning on in one sentence.
1. Original: As the economy weakens, black-owned firms are running up against the same problems that other small businesses face: tighter credit, rising costs and stagnant revenues. But they have other obstacles to contend with, too. Some black business people say they still have trouble borrowing from large, white-run banksa charge that bankers deny has anything to do with racial prejudice.
Mabry, Marcus. “An Endangered Dream.” Time 3 Dec. 2013: 40. (Quote is from page 40.)
Student Version: In addition to the usual problems all small businesses must deal with in today’s shaky economy, black-owned firms may also face difficulties securing loans from white-run banks (Mabry 40).
2. Original: In the inner-city world of drugs, random violence isn’t what kills children or robs them of their childhood. What kills them is their position in the drug trade: These kids, some as young as eight, have become the retailers in a business that is more dependent on child labor than any 19th century sweatshop. On the street corners, those over twenty still doing business are considered “old-timers.”
Barnes, Edward. “Children of the Damned.” Life June 2008: 30-41. Print. (Quote is from page 31.)
Student Version: Edward Barnes contends that illegal drug dealing is more dependent on child labor than any 19th century sweatshop (31).
Create a “Works Cited,” page as outlined by MLA. Below you will see a list of ten works, both books and short essays. Based on the information provided, you should be able to create an MLA Works Cited. For additional information on MLA, please visit https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
1. In the President’s Secret Service. By Ronald Kessler. Crown Publishing Group in New
York. 2010.
2. Thomas J. Craughwell and M. William Phelps, authors. Failures of the Presidents.
Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press, 2009.
3. Jeff Greenfield’s book Then Everything Changed. 2011. G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publishers
in New York.
4. The Freedom Agenda: Why Democracy Promotion Failed and Why It Must Succeed. By
James Traub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers. 2009.
5. Rand Paul, author. The Tea Party Goes to Washington. New York: Center Street
Publishing, 2011.
6. The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency. By George C. Edwards, III, and
William G. Howell, editors. 2011. Oxford University Press in New York.
7. Black in the White House: Life Inside George W. Bush’s West Wing. By Ron J. Christie.
Nashville, TN. Nelson Current. 2009.
8. Another book by James Traub is called Dickens and New Historicism. St. Martins publisher in 2016.
9. A short story by Amy Tan entitled “Mother Tongue,” which is located in the book entitled Focus on Reading and Writing, Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, published in 2019 by Bedford/St. Martins, pages 590 through 595.
10. Maria Harris wrote an essay entitled “Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writer.” The essay was published in a book Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoth. Publisher’s is Heinemann, 2014. This essay is located on 24-34 of the book.
