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Guideline on Copyright, Citation, and Plagiarism

  PART 1: RATING DOCUMENTATION OF SOURCES 1)          F       I rated this passage F because although the documentation looks correct, the source is used out of context or contrary to the meaning in the original text. 2)          D     This passage has documentation, but it is not used clearly or correctly. The sentence about George Washington should either be cited (clearly from a different source). Also, in the Works Cited section, “Civilization 3” should be italicized. 3)          B       Was the Notes on the State of Virginia a separate reference in the Works Cited section? If so, it is missing information to set it apart as such. The first sentence of this passage needs a citation, but it did not come from the Ellis paragraph, which means yet another source on the Works Cited section.   Ellis was noted in the Works Cited but not cited in-text.   I could also have gone with a C rating on this one. 4)            A      A few words may have been changed here or there in thi

Evaluation of Information and Annotated Bibliographies

  PART 1: SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE EVALUATION Article Citation in APA Style Short, K. R., Kedzierska, K., & van de Sandt, C. E., (2018). Back to the future: Lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 8 , Article 343. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00343 Descriptive Annotation: In this article, the authors review the main causes of the severity of the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. Specifically, they address how the virus attacked the human hosts, genetic factors that may have impacted the degree of fatality of the virus, and how the immune system in differing demographics was associated with mortality rate. The authors conclude their article with a discussion of how understanding past pandemics can help prepare the world for future pandemics. Evaluative Annotation: ·        The article was printed in 2018 and is quite up to date regarding current understanding of the epidemiology of the H1N1 virus that killed over 50