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Plagiarism in college writing
Paragraph Practice 1
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For each of the questions below determine whether the author has correctly documented the source material.
Source material: "The need for bilingual voting grew out of the experiences of many minority-language citizens who were treated poorly at voting sites and were often flatly denied their lawful right to vote. Their experiences mirrored those of many African Americans who were discouraged from voting by literacy test requirements, poll taxes, and other tactics of intimidation. Policies of this type were aimed at preventing vulnerable segments of society from gaining the power of the vote and thereby undermining the control that the more advantaged classes had over them. With the current attack on bilingual elections, these tactics continue." (Susan J. Dicker, Languages in America: A Pluralist View. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 1996; the quotation is from p. 173)
Many minority-language citizens were treated badly at voting sites and flatly denied their lawful right to vote (Dicken 173) __1__ (documented correctly/revision needed). This is similar to the treatment that many African Americans experienced when they tried to vote __2__ (documented correctly/revision needed). According to Dicken, such policies were designed to prevent "vulnerable segments of society" from "undermining the control that the more advantaged classes had over them" (173) __3__ (documented correctly/revision needed).
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