Blog 9 Plagiarism Tutorial

From question 3 to question 6, it argues that what should do, if I can’t find the citing resource’s original. For question 3, I choose “You can use the reference as long as you cite it and do not copy the words of the article where you found it,” and I choose “ Give up on the idea and go on to something else.”  In my opinion, I won’t commit plagiarism by these strategies. When I write an essay, I will search many materials, and sometimes some of them don’t have very obvious original. This situation is entirely common. Sometimes I have to give up this material without original, because it might lead me to commit plagiarism.  This is also a challenge for me. If the material is very matching my essay’s theme, I can’t give up, and then I have to spend much time on searching the original. From this online tutorial I learned what ever I am even though professor, I can’t use other’s work without citation.

From question 7 to question 10, these questions points out the copying and paraphrasing similar with the original are plagiarism. For question 8, it asks “You were assigned to post something to a class list online. You find an interesting article on the Internet and cut and paste it in your posting. Is this considered plagiarism?” My answer is yes. I can easily points out this phenomenon is plagiarism, but some times I can’t. For example, if the author has paraphrase the original work, but he didn’t cite the specific words and the paraphrasing is very similar with the original. It’s also committing plagiarism. The ambiguous boundary of plagiarism is the challenge for me. Form this online tutorial I learned how to distinguish the appropriate paraphrasing and plagiarism. Sometimes I have paraphrase the source with my own words, but it still includes some specific words such as “amnesia” without quotation marks. It’s also a plagiarism.