plagiarism tutorial

   From the website esl.osu.edu/staff/bloch/plagiarism, there are 10 confusing questions. The online tutorial describes 10 different situations about plagiarism happened in our academic life. From the question 3~6, I felt confused about the question 4 in the beginning, which is challenging to me. There are always a lot of discussion group in the campus, group work is good for our study. In the discussion group, we were asked to discuss our paper before we starting writing it. Then, each member will provide their own useful ideas for group work. The question arises from that should we cite their ideas in our paper as we cite a quotation from a paper?

  In my opinion, I selected Yes. Although the team work cares team effectiveness by sharing ideas, the most important point is intellectual property that we need to write down them in the paper. Moreover, if we do not cite them, it will cause the plagiarism. Because it has another problem" personal communication". In order to avoid plagiarism, it is important to cite the ideas from group members. It is an interesting question, because plagiarism is not clear in the group work. Therefore, it is challenging to me, but do the citation will be safety. Finally, the online tutorial taught me a lot of situations should be focused on and we need to pay attention to them.