The tutorial contains ten confusing situations which we may
encounter in our academic life. It tries to give you a concept of plagiarism
with choice and explanation. The options may come from true case and also we
should pay attention to. For example, the fifth question described a situation you
forget the origin of source which used in your paper and provide three
solutions. This question is about scientific paper and it is similar to the
physics course I currently enroll in. For me, I selected A at first; however, the
explanation argues that in the scientific paper, citation should contain the
origin author and the title, otherwise, we will in trouble. Actually, internet
technology grows so rapidly these years, it should be pretty easy to find the
source; therefore, I may give up that source without identity. Moreover,
getting a new source is also the highly recommended option provide by the
tutorial.
Question from 7~10 seems to
be more complex, such as the tenth question which shows us two paragraphs and
asks us whether the second one plagiarized or not. I read these words carefully
and found the second paragraph is pretty good with great paraphrasing; therefore
I click “no” and shocked when I saw the explanation. The second paragraph still
plagiarized because of not showing the author of the source. It is an obvious
mistake to cite without acknowledging original author; however, this little
detail is so easy to be ignored. I never thought that authors’ names were paid
so much attention. I will definitely put author’s name in my citation in the
later essays.
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