This online plagiarism tutorial introduces me to some intricate
issues regarding plagiarism, helping me to know when is considered as
plagiarism and when is not. From the question 3-6, I raise a question that what
shall I do if the criteria of the problem are ambiguous. I think this question
is challenging to me, because it does not have an exact definition, which will
make me confused. For instance, is it proper that I reuse my own old paper in a
new assignment? Is it necessary to cite the idea which was mentioned by a
member in our group? After filling out the online tutorial, I changed some
opinions about plagiarism. Formerly, I did not pay more attention to
plagiarism, thinking just acknowledge the author is ok. Nevertheless, I think
plagiarism is more severe than what I considered before. If I am not sure what
should I do, the safest methods are to ask teacher’s permission or to quote all
the original resources carefully, and otherwise, I run the risk that the
article where I take does not accurately report it.
From the last 4 questions, the question about how to avoid
plagiarism comes to my mind, which is an interesting problem to me, since if I
find the best way, I will work better on my homework and do not worry about plagiarizing.
After filling out the online tutorial, I understand more about the methods to
get away from plagiarism. For example, from question 7 and 10, I notice that
the great approaches to avoid plagiarizing is trying to abstract the main idea,
changing special terms that were stressed in articles and paraphrasing the
words and sentence structures perfectly.
Overall, I learned some new approaches through the online tutorial
which are useful in writing paper.
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