Plagiarism

1. Last summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate pizza at Gino's East.

 I don't believe this passage needs to be cited because it is someones personal anecdote on a trip. They reference locations that are common knowledge.

2. Americans want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody.

This passage could have been cited by collecting the publishers info that got these statements and the year of publication. Perhaps they could have quoted "perfect union" if that was mentioned in the publication.

3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework.

This could also have been cited with the publishers info and where they got those stats.
4. Martin Luther King was certain that ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail", 2nd sentence) nobody would want to be contented with a surfacy type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes.

This passage was just paraphrased from the original one. It should be cited as follows above.

5. Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's "white power structure" left African-Americans there "no alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail" para. 5).

This passage has been correctly cited. The exact words King used in his letter are quoted and both the title and location of the quotes are referenced.

6. In "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham." King also says that the statement, "fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."

This passage is quoted correctly except for it combined another sentence as one whole message.
7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean.

This does not need to be cited because it is coming from a persons discovery.

8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings.

This may be cited because it is information that is widely known from the constitution.

I'm not sure if I did this assignment correctly but I have learned from this, how to cite materials from different sources. I know its easier to use the COP rule for citing my sources. Being specific with details is critical from what I read here.I learned what materials to cite and what not to cite. Basically any personal ideas and opinions don't need to be cited. I will make sure to acknowledge the sources I read and pay careful attention to how it is presented.