CQ Researcher: Sexual Harassment

Source: CQ Researcher

"Employment lawyers say the widespread adoption of anti-harassment policies and training programs over the past decade has led to a decline in workplace sexual harassment charges filed with federal, state and local government agencies. But plaintiffs' attorneys say sexual harassment remains a persistent and under-reported problem that boiler-plate corporate policies and training programs often fail to address. And worker-rights advocates say the numbers of charges may be declining for other reasons, including a move by employers to require potential employees to agree to binding arbitration of workplace disputes. Companies say arbitration benefits everyone by speeding up the dispute process, but workers' advocates strongly disagree." Mantel, B. (2012, April 27). Sexual harassment. CQ Researcher, 22, 377-400. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

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Newseum: What's happening today?

Want to know today's headlines from around the world? The Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C., posts more than 800 front pages from today's newspapers on its website. Ninety-two countries are represented.

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El día de los niños/El día de los libros is a celebration of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of advocating literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

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Avoiding Plagiarism

Are you finishing up a paper? Visit SWC's Writing Center (420D) and read through these tips on how to avoid plagiarism (from Facts on File Issues & Controversies).

"What Is Plagiarism?

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, to plagiarize is to 'steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as ... [your] own.' Plagiarism can be intentional or unintentional. Intentional plagiarism includes actions such as buying a paper from a Web site, copying an entire paper from another source, turning in someone's paper as your own, and hiring someone to write a paper for you. Unintentional plagiarism is less clear. The following actions are forms of plagiarism, whether intentional or not:

• Not placing a direct quotation in quotation marks. You have plagiarized if you use someone else's exact words or phrases and do not use quotation marks, even if you include a parenthetical reference or a footnote after it.

• Following another's sentence too closely. If you only change a word or two in the sentence, delete some words, or change the order of the sentence, you are plagiarizing, not paraphrasing.

• Placing parenthetical references or footnotes in the wrong place so that paraphrased material looks like your own idea.

• Using another's original idea without including a parenthetical reference or a footnote.

• Using too much of someone else's work. If most of your paper is made up of other people's ideas and words, even if you cite correctly, it may be considered plagiarism.

Plagiarism is a very serious offense in both the academic and professional worlds."

"Avoiding Plagiarism." Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, n.d. Web. 20 Apr. 2012. .

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