Steroids continue to be a major problem. In fact, “Reported cases of steroid use by athletes skyrocketed last year by an incredible sixty percent.” (33).
In this third example, the problem is that the author’s name is missing in the citation. The author’s name is only emitted from the citation when several citations from the same author appear subsequently in a paragraph. In such a case, a writer can write both the author’s name and page number in the first citation but omit the author’s name and only cite the page in the subsequent citations until another author is cited. In this case, since there are no following statements, both the author’s name and page number have to be included in the citation. For example, Steroids continue to be a major problem. In fact, “Reported cases of steroid use by athletes skyrocketed last year by an incredible sixty percent.” (DeFord 33).
- Steroids continue to be a major problem, with reported cases of use by athletes rising sixty percent in the past year (DeFord 33).
The writer has simply rearranged and summarized the author’s original statement in the statement above. As such, the statement is plagiarized. Fixing the statement requires paraphrasing; for example, Steroids continue to be a major problem. Evidently, data shows that steroid use among athletes in the previous year rapidly increased by sixty percent (DeFord 33).
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