Michael Arnold
Samuel Ofori
CHE 113-018
Experiment 10
January 24, 2017
Avoiding Plagiarism
Purpose
To prepare writing a lab report without plagiarizing in order to avoid academic sanctions, for not just this class but all papers in other classes and in the future.
Procedure
1. Explain what a scholarly journal is and give an example of a scholarly journal.
• A scholarly journal is a piece of work written to inform an audience about the scholar’s research and their findings from their research. An example of a scholarly journal would be “Journal of Volcanology.”
2. Read the article provided on Canvas and write a summary using in-text citations and references.
• The article states that organic chemistry is not the easiest class for everyone. “The failure and withdrawal rates for Organic Chemistry have been known to be quite high,” (Mooring, 1972). A thing becoming more common is the flipped classroom. This is where, “traditional classroom activities become homework, and what is traditionally homework is done in the classroom,” (Mooring, 1972). The main premises behind the idea of the flipped classroom are social constructivism and cognitive-load theory, which both focus on lowering the work load for each individual (Mooring, 1973). The article then compares the learning environment for the traditional and flipped classroom. The researchers then held studies to figure out whether the flipped classroom was better than the traditional classroom. The found that, “this first implementation of a flipped course at this institution was a success,” (Mooring, 1981).
Mooring, Suazette; Mitchell, Chloe; Burrows, Nikita. “Evaluation of a Flipped, Large-Enrollment Organic Chemistry Course on Student Attitude and Achievement.” Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 93, Issue 12 (2016): Pages 1972-83. Web. Date Accessed 24 January 2017. https://uk.instructure.com/courses/1884339/files/86843962/download?download_frd=1
3. Choose a chemistry topic that interests you.
• RNA synthesis
4. Find a journal article on the subject and create a full citation.
• Kametani, Yukiko; Iwai, Shigenori; Kuraoka, Isao. “An RNA synthesis inhibition assay for detecting toxic substances using click chemistry.” Journal of Toxicological Sciences, 39, 2 (2014): Pages 293-9. Web. Date Accessed 24 January 2017. http://ezproxy.uky.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=95106860&site=ehost-live&scope=site
5. Write a summary of the article using in-text citations.
• DNA lesions can pose a serious problem during both the process of replication and transcription (Kametani, 2014). Unfortunately, it is very hard to detect when a lesion is causing harm or acting benign. Using known chemical substances, scientists have tested to see if these chemicals enable the lesions to do harm or no affect the processes of replication and transcription. The scientists found that they were able to see correlations between use of chemicals and the inhibition of RNA synthesis (Kametani, 2014). This means that the scientists can use these same methods with other substances on different cells to help determine toxicity of certain substances. “These data suggest that this method might be used to estimate the potential risk of chemical substances in differentiated mammalian cells, which are the most common cell type found in the human body,” (Kametani, 2014). The goal of the article was to allow readers to know about this process and how the scientists found success with it.
Analysis
1. French, April; Soult, Allison; Savas, M. Meral; Botha, Francois; Brock, Carolyn; Griffith, Charles; Hood, Darla; Kiser, Robert; O’Conner, Penny; Plucknett, William; Sands, Donald; Vance, Diane; Wagner, William. “Scientific Writing and Integrity.” General Chemistry II Laboratory Manual 2017 Edition. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil, 2017. Pages 51-58. Web. Date Accessed 24 January 2017. http://www4.chem21labs.com/labfiles/36194_34_FrenchA_9098-6_W17_WEB_Ex10..pdf
2.
Rivera-Delgado, Edgardo; Recum, Horst. “Using affinity to provide long-term delivery of anti-angiogenic drugs in cancer therapy.” ACS Publications, Volume 10, Issue 1021 (2017): Page 6. Web. Date Accessed 28 January 2017. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b01109
3. At the University of Waterloo, in Canada, a scientist along with one of his students were caught plagiarizing. The duo had been publishing work that was being conducted by MIT and the University of California in a collaborative project. The research stolen was “advanced battery technology” (Munro, 2012). The original scientists published their findings on their own websites after being approved for publication. The Canadian scientist and student published “unaltered text without appropriate references” (Munro, 2012). The original owners of the research said the job was “a cut-and-paste job” (Munro, 2012). The punishment for the Canadian scientist and student was not too extreme. The University of Waterloo removed their work and also previous publications by the couple after realizing that plagiarism had occurred in those pieces as well.
Article accusing of plagiarism- Margaret Munro. “Top Canadian scientist and award-winning student caught in ‘blatant plagiarism’ of text.” National Post. September 11, 2012. Web. Date Accessed 28 January 2017. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/university-of-waterloo-researchers-issue-retraction-and-apology-after-using-u-s-experts-text-and-information
Article with plagiarism- (no longer exists along with many other works by the two scientists)
Original article- Bazant, Martin; Squires, Todd. “Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena.” Elsevier, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2010): Pages 203-13. Web. Date Accessed 28 January 2017. http://web.mit.edu/bazant/www/papers/pdf/Bazant_2010_COCIS_preprint.pdf
Conclusion
I have learned that plagiarism is an extremely serious offense. The negatives far outweigh the positives in plagiarism and it is in no way worth the risk to ever plagiarize in either this class or any other piece of work for the rest of my life.
Works Cited
• Mooring, Suazette; Mitchell, Chloe; Burrows, Nikita. “Evaluation of a Flipped, Large-Enrollment Organic Chemistry Course on Student Attitude and Achievement.” Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 93, Issue 12 (2016): Pages 1972-83. Web. Date Accessed 24 January 2017. https://uk.instructure.com/courses/1884339/files/86843962/download?download_frd=1
• Kametani, Yukiko; Iwai, Shigenori; Kuraoka, Isao. “An RNA synthesis inhibition assay for detecting toxic substances using click chemistry.” Journal of Toxicological Sciences, 39, 2 (2014): Pages 293-9. Web. Date Accessed 24 January 2017. http://ezproxy.uky.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=95106860&site=ehost-live&scope=site
• Rivera-Delgado, Edgardo; Recum, Horst. “Using affinity to provide long-term delivery of anti-angiogenic drugs in cancer therapy.” ACS Publications, Volume 10, Issue 1021 (2017): Page 6. Web. Date Accessed 28 January 2017. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b01109
• Margaret Munro. “Top Canadian scientist and award-winning student caught in ‘blatant plagiarism’ of text.” National Post. September 11, 2012. Web. Date Accessed 28 January 2017. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/university-of-waterloo-researchers-issue-retraction-and-apology-after-using-u-s-experts-text-and-information
• Bazant, Martin; Squires, Todd. “Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena.” Elsevier, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2010): Pages 203-13. Web. Date Accessed 28 January 2017. http://web.mit.edu/bazant/www/papers/pdf/Bazant_2010_COCIS_preprint.pdf
• French, April; Soult, Allison; Savas, M. Meral; Botha, Francois; Brock, Carolyn; Griffith, Charles; Hood, Darla; Kiser, Robert; O’Conner, Penny; Plucknett, William; Sands, Donald; Vance, Diane; Wagner, William. “Scientific Writing and Integrity.” General Chemistry II Laboratory Manual 2017 Edition. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil, 2017. Pages 51-58. Web. Date Accessed 24 January 2017. http://www4.chem21labs.com/labfiles/36194_34_FrenchA_9098-6_W17_WEB_Ex10..pdf