Plagiarism? Are you kidding?

The video clip, ‘Plagiarism? Are you kidding?’ illustrates an argument how important to cite when they do their paper work, when it comes to plagiarism and the advantage of using other’s as well. Since he thinks that citing the original sources is like squandering of time, he minds using someone else’ information in his paper. However, the woman mentions that it would make his argument essay strong and more reader’s agreements with his statement. Moreover, in terms of how show the original track of source, the woman introduces some forms of avoiding plagiarism. Unlike his thought that he is required to paraphrase every sentence, she stresses that he can use a just main idea and he is needed own words, structure, even grammar points in the paper. As the aim of quoting, she emphasizes that an apt quotation and reference let readers more count on his idea and his writing. In addition, it indicates he is well read and make viewers recognize his idea is belongs to somebody’s.

It is certain that many people do not know the advantages of adding someone’s sources and even they do that, they mostly confused with the way to put those. I was just like the man who is talking in the video, because the paper that is full of my opinions and ideas was the most proper to complete writing paper for me. However, my statement could be more well-developed by showing specialists’ view and those surely supported my argument. Accordingly, I stand by the woman’s talk now. It is absolutely not a ‘waste of time’ to refer to the information, more importantly, complying with the rules for quotation and giving a credit for authors are strong demand.