Blog #7 issue 1

Technology makes students plagiarize. As we all know, technology like computer and internet were developed very well in the recent few decades. In the old days, students don’t have much convenient resources like we do, they always get information by reading books or asking others. Which means when they want to plagiarism they don’t have so much to resources and it is not easy for them to find what they need in books. However, nowadays students are able to surf the internet to get any info they want. What’s more, if they have a laptop or smartphone they can even gather info anywhere anytime. That’s the technology changes, they changed the way we learn the way we live; it has an impact change of our life. In the article “Technology makes plagiarism too easy”, the author Forrest Mims III discussed how technology makes people easy to plagiarize others’ intellectual property. He used the word “unprecedented” to illustrate the technology changes and he reports that with the help of internet some students just “cut and paste” the info they get to finish their schoolwork. Same thing happened in that Harvard Cheating scandal, Lauerman reported “electronic communication”, believed by school, made the plagiarism possible. Harris, cited by Lauerman, analyzed that with students’ internet age grow they gradually change the way they look at intellectual property. That means, not like the older generation, students don’t respect intellectual property much. When the internet plagiarism became more and more frequent, some people stop making original works. As a result,things get worse and worse.

Self Reflection

  Although I am a native speaker of Chinese, my writing in Chinese is mundane enough that my Chinese teachers always graded my works under average standards. Due to lack of careful observation about life, my writing about depicting scenes is particularly terrible while argumentation seems much easier to me. Moreover, in Chinese writing, we have to use more depiction measures to interconnect scenes with characters’ minds and motions. I have not mastered this complicated approach after years of practice. In contrast, English writing focuses more on narrative to present objective truth and express personal opinions. At the same time, English writing is not that much easy to me because English is my second language. Sometimes I can not wholly express my feelings with suitable words because when I remember English words, I only connect the link between the word and its Chinese translation to try to be familiar with much words as soon as possible while I should put the words back to original sentences to better understanding of the usage of words.

Making my digital story script is a long period. Based on the outline I firstly finished, I recalled whole story and presented it in public. To many people, the outline looks like a redundant and time-consuming task, but I think it is useful because following the steps in outline, I can tell the whole story without any neglections. I would apply this approach in my future writing.

After the study of the disadvantages of plagiarism, I realized the importance of obeying students’ codes. I would cite and quote original source at the proper times in my writing to avoid plagiarism.

Blog 7 argument paragraph

  We have focused on the plagiarism for several weeks since the academic year began. We have to admit that the plagiarism and copyright infringement is a popular topic recently. Some students do not know how to finish their assignments or they just want to finish their tasks "efficiently";therefore, they may copy others' work. Nowadays, more and more international students coming to the US for study, so the plagiarism will become an issue which they also should care about; however, a lot of foreign students could not fully understand the rules because of their culture or knowledge background. Therefore, "how to let these foreign students fully understand rules like Honor Code" become a big question which no educational facility can avoid. The first article "cheating across culture" showed us that some business school students who failed to acknowledge the Honor Code got serious punishment. The author Elizabeth Redden points out that this situation definitely due to their educational background which seen copy as a respect to the original source. Solutions must be figured out before things get worse. The author Elizabeth Redden suggests special orientation for international students to help them overcome this problem. However, this problem is not only occur in the international students, but also happened in the Harvard University. Recently, the news that 125 Harvard students were accused cheated in the exam drug our attention back to the plagiarism. Cheating and plagiarism become a topic which no one can afford to ignore.

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The rules are everywhere not only in sports but also in plagiarism. Plagiarism has always been a big issue and it obviously still is a hot potato in many areas.  As the range of plagiarism is widened, people have founded the reason why people are plagiarized. Generally, the breach of rules, cultural difference and lack of morality are grounds causing plagiarism. However, above all things, people are guilty of plagiarism by violating the rule which tells how to cite and give a credit for authors. Stanley Fish, in news article “Plagiarism is not a big moral deal “, describes significance of following the rule as to quote source from others. He demonstrates the similarity between golf and plagiarism which has strict and clear rule. Moreover, he stresses that people should follow the rigid rules to avoid plagiarism. Also, through this article, Fish added the punishment if they do plagiarize. Furthermore, this contention is supported by the article “Harvard Says 125 Students May Have Cheated on a Final Exam” written by Richard and Jess. According to the Harvard’s student handbook, it emphasize that students must abide by the honor code and they are supposed to be well-informed of the code case by case; department, assignment or class. In the opposite sense, the news article “The Culture of Deceit” written by Patricia McGuire points out the integrity when it comes to plagiarism. In terms of education, he evaluates the morality and which needs truth and integrity for the higher quality education. What is more, McGuire mentions that those quantities can bring them to the true leader in the society as well.  

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  Plagiarism is a hot topic which is in the education. Especially, international students have this problem. However, there are a lot of reasons for international students to have plagiarism. For example, Elizabeth Redden in " Cheating Across cultures" points out some issues come up in some ways: educational systems, language barriers and educators do to guide international students well. Moreover, Petra Crosby as cited by Elizabeth Redden, adds knowledge could present in different situations, some almost same words to be a sentence may be have different meanings. Therefore, it is a point in language barriers, also in cultures. And it is unconscious. Regardless, Chinese educational system is substantially different from western educational system. In China, use some beautiful sentences copied on the internet could make the article better and get a good grade, but it is called copyright infringement in USA. Besides, Jonathan Zittrain in "Salon.com" said "Unconscious copying may still run afoul of the law". In other words, use someone else's work instead of writing where they are from is plagiarism, whether there is a conscious or conscious, it "still run afoul of the law".    

  In contrast, plagiarism sometimes could be forgiven. Alan Brown finds that" source amnesia", from his words" When most of us copy others unintentionally, there are minimal consequences beyond irritation on the part of the plagiarized individual". Therefore, just some common problems not "run afoul of the law".

Blog7 Issue paragraph --Yalin Chen

Blog7-- issue paragraph

By Yalin Chen

The fundamental reason of International students’ plagiarism is a moral deal instead of the cultural differences. Plagiarism is discussed by people in academic study since a long time ago. Nowadays, it is especially prevailing among international students because they are easily to involve plagiarism. However, these students are intentional to commit plagiarism; they know the serious consequence of plagiarism, but they risk the punishment of being suspended by schools to get better grades. It is a moral deal and they choose to commit. Nevertheless, in the “Cheating Across Cultures”, Elizabeth Redden analyses the reasons of international students’ plagiarism. She claims that the cultures differences, like the differences of educational systems are the main reason to explain their plagiarism. However, even under a same educational system, plagiarism is still unavoidable. Recently, Richard perez-pena and jess bidgood reported that 125 students have cheated on their final exam. Even the students in the Harvard, one of the most famous universities, can not avoid plagiarism. Consequently, students understand plagiarism clearly and the culture differences or language barriers are the excuses for absolving from punishments. Therefore, it is essential to learn the most fundamental reason of plagiarism and trying to figure out this issue on a right way. Schools should mostly focus on changing their mind of plagiarism, like to emphasize the importance of a game’s rules, which are claimed in the Stanley Fish’s article, “Plagiarism is not a big moral deal”. The rule are the key to continue the game and the academic integrity are the guarantee for students studies. 

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                 There are two main aspects to explain the reason why students get involved in plagiarism. Actually, plagiarism happens more often in recent years. In my opinion, plagiarism is not a simple question to think about; it must be considered in the exactly situation. First, from a subjective position, plagiarism is a bad behavior so that students get in trouble because of it. Students should take responsibilities for themselves, which means that they are cheating on purpose. For example, for the Harvard Cheating scandal in which 125 students cheated on a take home- exam, Susan Blum writes in her “11 Reaction” article that “Students everywhere are trained early on to attempt to ‘get something for nothing’.” In other words, every student could be willing to cheat. In that case, plagiarism is not related to other reasons such as educational backgrounds, because they know the consequences of cheating. The pressure of studying, being short of time or other excuses are not acceptable. In my view, it is not fair fundamentally because they want to get high grades by plagiarizing. These students must get their punishments. However, everything has two sides. From objective, different situations could lead students who are not willing to cheat to be involved in plagiarism. As it was mentioned by Stanley fish, “Plagiarism is not a big moral deal.” Plagiarism is just like a rule game. The definition of the rule to a game is similar to the definition of plagiarism to study. Once you change the rule, some behaviors could be defined as plagiarism even if they were not before. In that case, the reason of some international students’ plagiarism is excusable. Especially when an international student writes a paper for the first time, from my experience, it is reasonable to use other’s opinions in academic writings without quoting them. These students who are in that case do not want to cheat at all and the reason they got plagiarism is just because the change of the rules. So, we should comprehensively consider for each plagiarism cases. I think plagiarism cannot be generalized for one reason. The best way to consider it is from subjective to objective position. In short, plagiarism is complex. 

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In recent years, plagiarism has been more commonly found, especially in those of university students. The situations and causes of plagiarism can be varied. For example, Alan Brown explains that a reason for unintentional plagiarism is the “source amnesia”. Elizabeth Redden, the author of “Cheating Across Culture”, emphasized that the international students plagiarism are mainly caused from cultural diversity by presenting the news that 34 Duke University students got penalties because of cheating. And Stanley Fish, in “Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal” believes that people plagiarize due to the unconsciousness of the game’s rule. In the article “11 Reactions to the Harvard Cheating Scandal”, Susan Blum considers that under the competitive circumstance, students would choose an easier way to complete the task. In fact, plagiarism is a common issue in academic fields. In my opinion, except for those intentional and profitable plagiarism, the main reason is different definitions of plagiarism and cultural difference. In China, my teachers hardly pay attention on plagiarism, besides, Chinese don’t usually use APA lists or carefully cite the sources. At the same time, the number of international students are keeping increasing, so plagiarism should be valued as important issue.

Blog 7: Issue 1

  It is always a critical problem that whether the plagiarism is related to the moral or not. The article “plagiarism is not a big moral deal” by Stanley fish addressed that the concept of plagiarism belongs to among cultural aspect, moral issue and rules of a game. Firstly, Fish considered Golf’s rule as a good analogy for plagiarism about a learned sin which means plagiarism is “an insider’s obsession. The author stated that golf players and fans both understand and abide by the regulation. However, in my opinion, plagiarism is not only the rule of game, but also related to the morality. For example, it is definitely illegal that someone steals something from others or use other’s thing without permission. Even though all the writers should know their rule is plagiarism, someone still cheat will demonstrate that plagiarism is related to the person’s morality. Actually, in that way, cheating and stealing are some, there are both moral wrong. Plagiarism means people want overcome a challenge but not via the unjust means.

one paragraph of whether the plagiarizing or infringing copyright

In recent time, plagiarism and copyright infringement are the very popular topics to discuss in public. There is a hot topic which is the differences between the plagiarism and the copyright infringement. Specifically speaking, plagiarism and copyright infringement can be different in legitimization which is I think is a main difference. In other words, plagiarism does not apply to the law. In “the plagiarism is not a big moral deal”, the author Stanley Fish claim that the plagiarism is a rule of the academic rules that everyone who participate in academia should follow rather than a moral issue which refer to plagiarism can be judged by the people’s stereotype. Namely, plagiarism is not applicable to the law. Moreover, in the Salon.com, the author Charles Cronin points out that there is a copyright law to protect the people’s intellectual property from being offended by other people which refer to the copyright infringement by using the music copyright infringement as a example. In contrast, other groups of people argue that the main difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism is the definition of these two behaviors. In Salon.com, The professor Jonathan Zittrain insist that plagiarism is a lie about copying from other people’s work, yet the copyright is the behavior that a people copy other’s work. In conclusion, there could numerous of differences that plagiarism and the copyright infringement have, so this topic can be continually discussed in the future.

Blog 7 Issue 1

   Many reports show that more students commit plagiarism contributed mostly by international students recently. Elizabeth Redden, the author of”Cheating Across Cultures”, states that some students of Duke University were charged with plagiarism, most of them were from Asian countries. She suggests cultural difference between countries is the main reason for this issue. At the same time, language barriers international students’ faces, isolation and desperation they feel are possible reasons for this growing academic misconduct. In contrast, another famous university-Harvard University traps in academic misconduct scandal. As reported, 125 students were suspected to finish take-home exam by groups while they were asked to work by themselves. Mr. Harris, as cited by Richard and Jess, suggests the modern technology propels this phenomenon. No any geographical restrictions among students by all-pervading network. So the convenience of commiting academic misconduct is the main reason of this issue.

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Many international students in Western universities are involved in plagiarism for different reasons.  Some students pretend other’s works as their own assignment for the efficiency.  Some students are not fluent with English; so, since they have a difficulty with their works, they use other’s work without giving credits.  However, the biggest reason why international students are involved in plagiarism is that they have never learned about plagiarism policies.  Since society has become more information-oriented, protecting copyrights has become an important issue.  In this sense, Western countries built up laws for valuing intellectual works in advance; however, Asian countries have not legislated the rules yet or are about to start to establish them.  According to Alvin Toffler, a futurist and the writer of “Revolutionary Wealth”, the process of changing laws is more difficult compared to the advancement of technology and change of society.  To be specific, the laws in Asian countries for the protecting intellectual properties cannot keep up with the change of society.  It makes Asian student be unaccustomed to plagiarism rules in colleges.  On the other hand, some people maintain that a part of international students’ culture affects them to be implicated in plagiarism.  For example, Elizabeth Redden, who is a writer of the article “Cheating across cultures”, argues that international students are involved in plagiarism due to their culture.  She insists that culture of international students, especially Asian culture, considers knowledge and intellectual properties as shared endeavors.  But, it is not concerned with Asian culture itself; it is rather related with underdevelopment of laws for preventing plagiarism.

Blog 7 - Issue Paragraph-Yuhang Yi

There are several perspectives toward plagiarism since it has become a hot topic in the world. Plagiarism could be affect by culture, educational background or some other complex factors. However, Stanley Fish, a college professor claims that plagiarism should only easily be viewed a rule of game. It is partially right that plagiarism is like the rule of a sport game such as the example he gives in his article ” Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal”. It says golf has a strict rule; nevertheless, no matter how serious it is, it’s still a game. A game is used for playing. Thus, if the requirement is only following the rule, then here comes many ways to play the game. There is a group of people called ghostwriters. They are educated and trained writers who could write a essay under those academic rules. Dave Tomar, a former academic ghostwriter, cited by Dan Berrett in his article “An Academic Ghostwriter, the 'Shadow Scholar,' Comes Clean” acknowledges that he had written for a number of college students including undergraduate, master and even doctor. How could this profession come out? Why those high educated people keep hiring ghostwriters? And why do people view that as inappropriate? The reason is that plagiarism could not be viewed as a simple problem solved by the strict rule; it is an issue having a higher level which is a moral deal.

Blog#7 Issue Paragraph

Recently, the number of international students involved in plagiarism has increased more frequently. There might be numerous reasons about what cause International students plagiarism. Different culture experience is a factor of causing student cheating. For example, in China, an essay will get a great score if the writer adds many famous person’s words in my essay. Thus the different culture experience might lead to different understanding of plagiarism. Greenblatt, as cited by Elizabeth Redden in “Cheating Across Culture”, points out “many Asian students who come from education systems in which the norm is to repeat back a textbook or a professor verbatim as a sign of respect to the source of knowledge.” Furthermore, the convenient technology is another factor of student committing plagiarism. In China, it is free for downloading new books, watching movies and listening music on the Internet. People usually just put some key words in “baidu” search engine, and then they can find suitable information. The convenient Internet causes people to citing others’ opinions without quotation marks. In Daniel Luzer’s article “Plagiarism on the rise”, he presents a result of a survey from the Pew Research Center about plagiarism in college. Plagiarism in students’ paper has increased over the past 10 years, moreover an overwhelming 89 percent say computers and Internet have played a major role in the rise in stealing others work and claiming it as their own. 

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                Plagiarism is more prevalent in education, influenced by cultural difference and its ambiguous boundary. For example, Elizabeth Redden, in his article “cheating across cultures”, addresses the issue that 34 Duke university school students were found collaborating on a take-home test. Geenblatt, as cited by Redden, argues that one of the reasons of this problem is that Asian students cannot fit in the western styles of quoting and are regard plagiarism as normal, due to the cultural difference. For my own experience, our teachers have never told us the definition of plagiarism and how to avoid it. We can use others’ academic paper without quoting and download the music whatever we like. Nevertheless, these are illegal behaviors in USA, which is extremely different from Chinese situation. Another key point is the language barrier. Students and even honor code students maybe get pressure and lazy on doing homework. Consequently, they find people or some website to help them to write essay, as included by G. Thomas Courser and Dan Berrett in their articles “Dear plagiarist” and “An academic ghostwriter, the ‘shadow scholar’, comes clean”. Moreover, freshman have trouble to define the boundary of cheating, which can also result in plagiarism. Marita, mentioned by Mike Rose, in his article “Lives on the boundary”, was accused by copying others work, punished by teacher. She acknowledged some sources, not quoting all the sentences perfectly, but endeavoring to finish assignment well, which is unconscious plagiarism. Besides this issue, cartoonists are easier to make mistakes in plagiarism, since the symbols and pictures are common, which lead them to have unique ideas. All these phenomena result from the ignorance of importance of plagiarism. Patricia McGuire, in her article “the culture of deceit”, criticizes the problem of cheating spreading in society. She points out that many children are not regard plagiarism as a big deal and find excuses for their fault. Above all, we need to explore methods to avoid plagiarism to insure the quality of education.

Blog 7 - Issue Paragraph

Write a paragraph in which you state your issue and explain it. You can choose one of the issues from class or one that you will write about in your essay. Write the first sentence as a topic sentence (not a question). Then explain the issue. Present some counter-argument on contrasting argument that fits with your issue. Then, use sources to support your arguments and counter-arguments. Be sure to use summary sentences. (Write 8-10 sentences at least).

Reflection of writing

  Nine weeks passed since the semester began, We have discussed plagiarism and written several articles in English. We talked about the tense, verb, sentence. Actually, I'm not a good writer, even write an article in Chinese could be a tough task for me because writing in Chinese style try to let student use flowery sentence and vocabulary to make their work more "beautiful". The biggest writing difference between two countries is that we usually read others' articles and remember their good verb using and sentence so that we can use them in our own work; however, these writing skill can cause plagiarism in America. We present our own experience and imagination to complete the task.

  But the American academic article is quite different from the Chinese version, we focus on the opinion, try to give more and more detail to support that, we read other's articles, cite the source and use it to reinforce our point. I took physics class this semester, at first, I did not do very well in this class, I just could not understand why my teammates wrote so much in the quiz since I have nothing to write. I confused myself and asked for the opinion from ESL professor, he told me that American always try to write more detail so that the readers can fully understand what we want to explain. Even the digital story, we need have a conclusion, then we use self-experience to present it.

Chinese writing Vs English Writing

   In my opinion, there are some differences between my Chinese writing and English writing. Firstly, when I use the Chinese to write a paper, I spend my lot of time on describing my emotional feeling about the things that surround me. Specifically speaking, I mainly focus on techniques which can polish my paper better and the content in the paper. Moreover, when we are using Chinese to write a article, I just use my own experience and sometime when I use others’ words not only in the that people’s article but also that people’s saying, I just copy them from my mind without any connections to the original author or article. This phenomenon, I think, is resulted from our attention when we are reading a book or searching a resource in Chinese.  Specifically speaking, when I read book or an article, I just focus more on the content and ignore the author’s name.

   In contrast, when I use English to write an article, I pay more attention to the objective fact and less emotional feelings. Moreover, when I writing in English, I try to distinguish an appropriate word for describing a suitable situation in the paper and sometime I use wrong grammar in English.

Furthermore, in my digital story, I just try to avoid the grammar and spelling mistakes. Moreover, I try to explain my opinion clearly and try to use some ironic words in my story which can make people interesting in my story; there are less emotional feelings in my digital story.

Lastly, due to the learning of plagiarism in recent month, I come up a way to avoid it. It is my first time to know about the copying is forbidden in academic writing. The simplest way to avoid this problem is giving a respect for the original author, in other words, quoting. Also I use the paraphrasing to avoid this problem.

Writing Self Reflection-Yuhang Yi

Comparing to reading, listing and speaking, writing is the worst part in my language learning. However, I don’t hate writing; I just don’t like it. I used to write some blogs and chat with my friends online a lot through words. Those writings are causal so I can use some informal words to make them fun. But academic writing is really formal and it has many strict rules. When I was in Chinese school, most time my writing scores could above average but it still had a gap to the top. Thus, if for English writing, it just could be even worse.

The English grammar is not that hard; I think I almost understand and good at it. The problems are the writing of complex sentence and the use of vocabulary. A complex sentence is always hard to write and it is also not easy to comprehend when I’m reading. Too many clauses make me confused and lost. And for vocabulary, I just can not come out a better word so many times during the writing. For example, people always use “get”, but in academic writing, I have to use a higher level synonym such as “obtain” to show I’m an intelligent and educated person. Another vocabulary problem is how to spell specialized word or term. For those words, because I already know them in Chinese, so every time when I write in English, I have to translate them in to English. There comes a trouble which is the order difference between Chinese and English. For instance, “The Declaration of Independence”, if I write it in Chinese way, it will be “The Independence Declaration”. Another situation example, “Butterfly Effect”, it may be written like “Butterfly Influence” due to similar meanings. I could use internet and dictionary to search for them during homework. But waht if I'm take an exam? Therefore, I still need time to "enrich" my vocabulary. Such as here, I don't know if "enrich" is appropriate or common use. Or should I choose "enlarge", "extend" or other words. Furthermore, there are a whole bunch of American sayings and slangs outside I don’t know.

The digital story writing didn’t take a long time because basically I just narrated the international exchange experience. Those students’ comments did help me in some ways. I added some explanation sentences to make the story more comprehensive. And for plagiarism, I mainly knew it. And as a result of this quarter’s learning, I fully understand how serious it is and several to avoid.

And I think the more I want to learn are the usages of intext citation and reference list.

Blog 6 - Self Reflection

      To be honest,  I am not a good writer in Chinese Writing because I don't like it. When i first met composition in my primary school, it was my nightmare. I am good at logical subjects such as math, but i found that it does not work in Chinese composition, which needs a lot of imagination. I hated writing compositions and every time when I was writing my essay, I had no idea until the time was up, and then I had to rush to finish it. As an result, I didn't get good grades in my writings perhaps because I was careless and wasn't focused in my writings. When I started to write English paper such as TOEFL academic writings and ACT writings, I found that English is not as hard as i thought it would be. English writing is more logical than Chinese writing, so I don't hate English writing.  However, as my second language, my English writing is also poor in some aspects. On one hand , I am proud of myself that I can come up with a clear structure to express my opinion. On other hand, lacking of suitable or exact word to describe ideas and grammar mistakes in sentences make it really hard for me to express my ideas perfectly. I even avoid using compound sentences and aways use simple sentences instead.  Overall, my English writing still needs more practices and improvements. 
     When i was write my digital story, it was very hard for me to write a big story with so many words, Eric gave a good way to make the same work much easier - The digital story script. It helped me a lot  by leading me from one step to another. I first think in my mind in Chinese, and then translate it into English and try to express the main points. I got feedbacks, and finally with the outline I finish the digital story.
     The concept of plagiarism is deep in my mind. At the beginning of every class, I will be warned to avoid plagiarism, especially in this class. The main idea of the class is about plagiarism,  I am surprised with that  and I think this class is very useful for me to avoid plagiarism in my college life.

Blog #6 by Shiqi

I like writing in my first language. However, it still bothers me when it becomes assignment of exams. In China, I only write diaries and blogs except those asked by teachers. So I'm not familiar with writing skills and format. But at the same time, I do believe that writing is the best way to express feelings and excellent experience. I was definitely poor in second-language writing including every foreign language I've learned, such as English, Spanish and French. I have no idea how to organize my thoughts and how to present my ideas precisely and comprehensively. What frustrates me more is the grammar points and vocabulary. All aspects of English writing seemed difficult to me that time. However, things are different now, after taking writing courses, I gradually have some basic ideas and how to write in English. Let me use digital story for example, firstly I wrote a outline, then I expand the whole story according to my outline, and the last step is to revise several times. Other students' comments sometimes do help me revise with the logical problem and improve my work more fun facts. What's more, I got the concept of plagiarism through the course. By discussing some articles and working on several summaries, I knew exactly what is plagiarism and how to avoid it. Even though I still forget to cite or quote sometimes, but at least I start to improve. The last but not least, I still need to work on is improving paraphrasing skills, which means more exercises on changing words and structures. In conclusion, writing is a hard task for me so far, but I have improved and I will do better in the future.

Blog 6--writing self reflection

  In fact, I'm not a very good chinese writer. I used to write paper for getting good grades in the exams according to all sorts of ways were taught by my chinese teacher. First, my teacher always asked us to read more famous books to improve writing skills and keep in memory with beautiful sentences. Then, we will practice more to make our essays better and better. However, the real feelings in the essay is the most important point. Because readers always are touched by the real feelings in the life. Regardless, touching paper without beautiful sentences also can attract readers. I'm not good at writing english paper. When I wrote the summaries before, I found that I need to take the time to organize sentences and look for some unknow words. However, I improved my organization sentences capacity and vocabulary after several weeks. Although just improved a little, I have made a progress.

  Writing the digital story script is interesting, because we will combine music, picture and words to make a different digital story from any paper we wrote in China. Despite we edited again and again, but our paper become better and better including classmates' comments. After having ESL class, I know how to cite the resource and how to avoid plagiarism. Because of educational background, know more about plagiarism is useful for my paper. Otherwise, I will always make mistakes for my writing style in China. So, I will pay attention to my paper to avoid plagiarism and improve my paper.

Blog #6 Writing Self Reflection

Without doubt, I am not a person who has not friendly relation with writing since I was young. Whenever I have a writing assignment, my head was filled up about how to start my story and complete it and I used to receive low grade for writing class as well. It made me get a kind of Trauma in Writing. So, fear of writing a paper was always followed me around, even though I write in Korean which is my mother tongue. Therefore, I can say that I was not a good writer and I was not even interested in writing. 

However, since I studied abroad, I was needed to write all the papers including in English. I was in big panic for the first time. As an example, the word order of Korean is different from that of English. Normally, in case of Korean, we use subject, object and verb orderly so that the difference between Korean and English let me throw me into confusion. Moreover, the thing English has lots of synonyms than Korean gave me a hard task to go through it as a Korean. 

Speaking of digital story, I wrote the digital story script easier than I thought, because it was not required a deep topic. I just could focus on sharing interesting experience I have with classmates. After I have classmate’s comment recommending me revise mistakes in sentences, I tried to write well-organized structure by amending those. 

About plagiarism, although I knew I should not use someone else’s source without citation, I did not have an idea how to cite in my paper. Hence, it was really good to know about plagiarism and doing citation through this English Class and it made me aware of avoiding plagiarism such as revealing the sources by putting author’s name or paraphrasing in right way.