Hello Everyone:I'm sorry about the blog that I posted the other day. My mind was not on Plagiarism that day, it was on the people of Haiti and it still on the people of Haiti.
I been reading about plagiarism for the past couple days. How it is wrong to use someone else work and take credit for it. I found this statement in, Writing Research Paper, A Guide to The Process, by: Stephen Weidenborner, Domenick Caruso, and Gary Parks, Seventh Edition (2005). I wanted to share this with all of you. Avoiding plagiarism is not just a matter of avoiding consequences, it is a matter of practicing ethical responsibility and establishing your own credibility as a writer. The purposes of carefully documenting all borrowed material in your paper include the follow:
1)Giving credit where credit is due: You must acknowledge the work of researchers who have gone before you. (If another writer were to use an interesting idea from something you had written, you surely want your work acknowledged as it source.
2) Telling your readers where you find more information about your topic: You may have raised some question that would send curious reader back to your sources for answers. Or a reader might want to verify your interpretation of what you read, for instance, someone might want to be certain you had not quoted out of context.
3)Giving knowledgeable readers some idea of how authoritative a particular statement is: Let the reader know whether the author of the source is an expert in the field or simply a reporter summarizing recent developments for the general public.
4) Providing the date of initial publication: The date that your source was originally Published is important because information changes through time. Magazine articles and book may be reprinted, so you must record the original publication date (as opposed to the date an article was posted electronically, or the year the book was printed). For instant Sigmund Freud spent more than forty years developing the psychoanalytic theory of personality, and over that period he revised some earlier idea considerably. Therefore, a well-informed reader might want to know just Freud made a statement that you quoted in your paper. For this reason, you must be careful to find out the year the source was first published.
5) Giving an overall sense of how thoroughly you carried out your research: The list of works cited reveals at a glance the range of your investigation of the topic, the notes indicate how thoroughly you have read the sources.
There are so many book on Plagiarism and they all given different source about what plagiarism is. To me it all boil now that Plagiarism is wrong no matter, what way you see it.
I hope to hear from you!
