Sunday, December 2, 2012

Blog 9 Plagiarism Tutorial - Yuhang Yi

The Online Tutorial presents 10 typical plagiarism cases. For each case, the websites provides several options and the best solution.

On question 6, it discusses an opposite plagiarism situation in which you doubt your professor has used your work on his class without your permission. This is definitely considered to be a plagiarism, which is the right answer. It is an interesting case because students don’t involve in plagiarism like usual; instead professor commits it. The solution explains that every paper you have written done belongs to you no matter it is an in-class or published work. This helps me understand my possession of my work and my protection of my work. It ensures me that I have the right to accuse my professor for plagiarism even thought it is very sensitive.

The last 4 questions are more complicated. There is a clear issue on question 8 which introduces a resource using from Internet. It states that you directly post a cut and pasted online article for your assignment. The lack of reference list absolutely leads it to be a plagiarism. The explanation of this question notes that Internet always “sending ideas and articles quickly to interested people”. Therefore, this issue again warns me to be aware of online resource using and always remember to paraphrase, to cite and quote correctly.

In general, those ten questions refresh my mind of plagiarism and those vivid examples help me to understand much easier.

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