ok so i just got home from chicago, its 1am, and im exhausted from a 3hr drive so bare with me on this post.
I started off with the article by Price. She starts off by going through scenarios of plagiarism and why and how people do it. Being a teacher, she goes through how she has changed her methods of teaching about plagiarism. I feel that she goes through a lot of what i already know about plagiarism like; how to write in my own words and giving appropriate credit to the author of another piece of work i might be using in another paper. I liked how she incorporated her main points in some of her pages with larger printed side texts in the paragraphs. It emphasized what she really wanted to get out to the readers. This is an extremely long article and i did not get all of it done. But i do understand her main points.
Then the article by Zwagerman is again about plagiarism. He begins by saying it is a rhetorical analysis. I liked how he talked about internet plagiarism and how we now like to cut and paste what we read on line into our papers but this is still considered plagiarism if not cited correctly. This author, like the last, went into the teacher's point of view on plagiarism and how it affects the learning and teaching in the schools today. The way his paper is set up allows the reader to flow with his ideas smoothly. And i feel that his point is clearly made with each paragraph. As with the last i did not finish because it is now 1:11am and the computer screen is looking quite blurry at the moment. This paper did make sense, however, and i again fully understand the act of plagiarism is very wrong and should be avoided at all costs.
Goooooood night :)
one of the main points made throughout these papers is that plagiarism is not always cut and dry. So avoiding them at all cost can be quite difficult. Depending on how strictly you define plagiarism you can trace it back to any information you have ever taken in and processed. This would make most of the literature created plagiarized. But obviously we can not have all of these distinguished authors accused of plagiarism so everyone who is a credible writer is exempt from the plagiarists damnation. Sadly this leaves only the student body to live with the constant threat of failure looming over our shoulder.
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