Plagiarism Tutorial

On the Online tutorial webpage, there are tutorial questions which are focused on examples which most students would be embarrassed and confused when they face with complicated situation related to plagiarism. This webpage help students formulate a concept of plagiarism with examples.

On the question number 4, this question is about the plagiarism which could be caused naturally in daily life. We share our opinion and thought by making a conversation with peers. It does not matter whether the topic is serious or not. There are not actually specific rule for this. I think that I cannot cite all the opinions because it is really hard to remember where the opinion from in the big discussion group. Also, unwritten opinion cannot be considered as a plagiarism. However, since there are some people regard it as a plagiarism case by case, it is needed to cite them as “personal communication”. Moreover, it is important to reveal that it is from discussion group and let lecturer know about it before handing the paper.

On the question number 8, this question looks simple to answer the question. It is based on what the plagiarism is and it is the most embarrassed one I was confused about it before I grasped an idea of plagiarism. When I do the paper in South Korea, I was not aware of copying and pasting and this was the one I was used to do in my assignment. Since teacher did not mention about why and how to cite the original source, I did not feel and learn the importance of citing. However, the class in the OSU changed my conception about original source I use. Now, I know I should put the reference list in my paper.

This tutorial was helpful to have a concept of plagiarism more clearly with situation and practices. Furthermore, detailed explanation about the answer made me understand about plagiarism.