Sunday, February 27, 2005

Jeenie - the plagiarism tutorial

Through the site of the plagiarism tutorial, I surely confirmed what plagiarism is. Using and copying of proper quotation marks, crediting the source and putting my paper in my own words is not plagiarism because I reveal to credit the source and paraphrase by having other words. However, we have to be aware that unintentional plagiarism also is a serious academic offence. Student who committed plagiarism may be punished various ways by intentional or unintentional plagiarism – for example, redo the assignment, fall the assignment, fail the class, and be dismissed from the university. Moreover, a plagiarism website provides the tips of avoiding plagiarism. They advised to have an enough time for taking research, document your sources.
(http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/document.html)
If some paraphrasing sentences are in doubt as plagiarism, we have to get a advice from professor or librarian. I also learned not only the difference between paraphrasing and quoting including doing both properly but also something when to cite, what to cite, and how to cite – the author, title, page number, and other information. However, if we state “common knowledge”, we may not be need to be cited.
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/cited.html
This plagiarism website definitely helps me understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid plagiarism by introducing to incorporate information using quotations or paraphrases. Moreover, interesting animations lead me to learn and think about plagiarism, proper citation, paraphrasing, and quotation. This site seem to be easy to contact and tutorial enjoyable.

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