Ok, I'm usually really bad with English related things. But, one thing that I was constantly drilled in high school was how not to plagiarize. Most of what was said in the article "What is Plagiarism?" I had previously known. The only new thing was the idea of a footnote. I've always seen them while reading, but have never had to do them myself. I never realized it was a way of citing your sources. I have always just been used to using MLA format. Besides that however, I had already known what was being said. I knew what constituted as plagiarism: not mentioning the source in a citations, using another person's words (whether that be the entire paper or just a short phrase), not using quotations when quoting a source (which seems pretty self explanatory).
The next article, "How to avoid Plagiarism" drilled me on the necessity of footnotes or some other form of citations. This one gave a lot more specific examples. It had the same basic idea of the previous article that I read, so it felt very repetitive. But because of the topics importance, I understand why we had to read both.
If I ever am confused when writing a paper, these articles will be very helpful.
Hey Sam! (:
ReplyDeleteYa, I agree with you most of the stuff in the plagiarism article I already knew. The footnotes thing was also something new to me. Before I didn’t know making a footnote is a way of citing your source just like you all my teachers required MLA form. The rest of the articles were both repetitive and they were both about things I already knew such as citing, paraphrasing and so on. The articles were very repetitive I guess because they wanted to emphasize the points they were making. For the most part the articles were helpful and taught me a couple things about plagiarism.