The information I learned this week about academic
integrity, plagiarism, intellectual property, and alternatives to traditional
copyright practices was review of the rules that I have learned in past
classes. I have taken various writing classes that have gone over plagiarism as
a unit. I will be able to use the information to remember when I need to cite
sources. I am usually really good about citing sources, but can forget when I
need to even if I put the author’s thoughts into my own words. I will be able
to look back on the information provided this week to know when I need to cite
sources when I start to write my paper both for this class and for my other
class.
The one subject that was introduced to me this week was
copyright rules. I was not familiar with the rules before reading the
information for this week so it was informative to read. I have not had any
problems with citing sources and plagiarism in the past. The information
provided this week will help me remember the rules in the future. There are so
many rules to remember about plagiarism and copyright, but the practice that I
have done in writing literature reviews in the past year helped me learn the
rules. Now they come somewhat naturally to me. The only area that I have
problems with is actually citing sources and how to format it especially if the
sources are not already cited.
I also agree that the information was very informative. I believe this assignment really helped students to be a little more keen as to how the cite the sources they use. With plagiarism having so many guidelines to it, I believe it is very easy for students to make simple mistakes, I found that I have issues with quoting the sources within my papers since I like to paraphrase everything,but I'm working on that . I'm glad that you were able to identify your problem areas as well.~Shainna Blyden
ReplyDeleteHello Allison
ReplyDeleteI see that you have been well informed to some of the issues that we read about last week. I was aware of academic integrity, but after reading about what plagiarism really means. I felt a little guilty, I don't think that I have been giving credit where credit is due sometimes, I will have to cite it no matter how I rearrange the wording. I am happy to see that you shared the fact that, you have got to where you are, on the subject of citations by practicing. I was very surprised that I did not answer some
of the quiz questions correctly. I saw that you were also surprised by the information given to us about copyright rules. Keep up the good work
Eloise Gene-Black