Ok. This article is about plagiarism. The author basically touches on the major points of plagiarism and how people continue to do this. In the beginning paragraph she identifies two main ways people plagiarize; because of having no ethics or simply by accident. I feel that more often it is done by accident. When we have to write these huge research papers for classes it is common to overlook simple errors like this. I really think that the person that has the guts to actually copy someone else's work and call it their own is just ridiculous. Just write your own work.
Near the end of the paper it gives advice for students and faculty. I like how she did this by giving lots of options and resources for both the student and teacher. It gives a better way to help write a paper with sources without having to plagiarize.
I liked how she referenced quite a lot of other authors in her text to help prove her point about this topic. The article continues on to explain patchwriting, positive plagiarism, and policies helping to prove of the academic dishonesty of plagiarism. I have read many things about plagiarism so i did not finish the whole article. But it did have a lot of good main points and views about plagiarism.
I completely agree with you on the subject of accidentally plagiarizing. The way i research mainly has me reading a bunch of information then i figure out what is important and type out the ideas in my own words. I like this method because it helps me learn about the topic better then just copying and pasting a quote. But my method sometimes can lead me to accidentally plagiarize but as long as i catch it I can reword and try again.
ReplyDeleteThis article did have some good main points, I'd probably say that about 60% of those who plagiarize do it by accident. Because of the sheer amount of research being done these days in all fields of study.
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