III. How Not to Plagiarize
B. Types and Examples of Plagiarism
Type 4: Pattern, Organization, or Structure of Arguments and
Ideas If you adopt the structure or organization
of an author's argument while expressing it in your own words,
you must cite the author, or else you are plagiarizing.
Example
Original Source
I have found many reasons for believing that with more nuclear
states the world will have a more promising future. I have
reached this unusual conclusion for three main reasons. First,
international politics is a self-help system, and in such
systems the principal parties determine their own fate, the
fate of the other parties, and the fate of the
system...Second, nuclear weaponry makes miscalculations
difficult because it is hard not to be aware of how much
damage a small number of nuclear warheads can do...Third, new
nuclear states will feel the constraints that present nuclear
states have experienced.
[From: Kenneth N. Waltz, "More May Be Better," in Scott D.
Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons:
A Debate Renewed (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,
2003), 44.]
Plagiarism
Reasons that nuclear weapons may increase stability include
the self-help nature of international relations, the reduced
danger of miscalculation due nuclear weapons' greater
destructiveness, and the fact that as more countries become
nuclear powers, they will be deterred from using their weapons
just as existing nuclear powers have been.
Proper Acknowledgement
According to Kenneth Waltz, nuclear proliferation increases
stability due to the self-help nature of international
relations, the reduced danger of miscalculation due nuclear
weapons' greater destructiveness, and the fact that as more
countries become nuclear powers, they will be deterred from
using their weapons just as existing nuclear powers have been.1
1Kenneth
N. Waltz, "More May Be Better," in Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth
N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 44.
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