Computer Assisted Learning
Plagiarism and its importance.
In most college courses, students often get engaged with each others ideas: we hear them in lecture and even read them in our text, infuse them in our writings and lastly even discuss them in class. It is nice to give credit where its due since Plagiarism is using another person’s ideas without acknowledging him or her as the source of that information.
A way through which students could avoid Plagiarism,
To meet this objective, you must give credit when you use; • another person’s theory, idea, or opinion; • facts, drawings, graphs, statistics, pieces of information which aren’t common knowledge; • Paraphrase of a person’s written or spoken words. • Quotations from another person’s work.
These guidelines are from the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism vs World Wide Web
A source of information so popular to students is the World Wide Web. Avoiding plagiarizing these sources has given rise to many questions. A writer must cite the source if he/she refers from the WWW. This rule applies even when you cite from the WWW a visual piece of information. Reasons about why students plagiarize; when there is some notable changes in the quality of a students work in terms of style, content, relativity and even vocabulary. Such changes are clear indications to an instructor that a student might have plagiarized maybe intentionally or unintentionally. A good example is when a student attempts paraphrasing so as to convey information but in the run fails to cite where that information was got. Also they may fail to show passages as quotations whilst conducting research for a project and later on treats it as it were a paraphrase. In some other extreme cases some will attempt to pass on their researched work as their own workings with intentions of
In most college courses, students often get engaged with each others ideas: we hear them in lecture and even read them in our text, infuse them in our writings and lastly even discuss them in class. It is nice to give credit where its due since Plagiarism is using another person’s ideas without acknowledging him or her as the source of that information.
A way through which students could avoid Plagiarism,
To meet this objective, you must give credit when you use; • another person’s theory, idea, or opinion; • facts, drawings, graphs, statistics, pieces of information which aren’t common knowledge; • Paraphrase of a person’s written or spoken words. • Quotations from another person’s work.
These guidelines are from the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism vs World Wide Web
A source of information so popular to students is the World Wide Web. Avoiding plagiarizing these sources has given rise to many questions. A writer must cite the source if he/she refers from the WWW. This rule applies even when you cite from the WWW a visual piece of information. Reasons about why students plagiarize; when there is some notable changes in the quality of a students work in terms of style, content, relativity and even vocabulary. Such changes are clear indications to an instructor that a student might have plagiarized maybe intentionally or unintentionally. A good example is when a student attempts paraphrasing so as to convey information but in the run fails to cite where that information was got. Also they may fail to show passages as quotations whilst conducting research for a project and later on treats it as it were a paraphrase. In some other extreme cases some will attempt to pass on their researched work as their own workings with intentions of
References: Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana, Colorado State University, Scott Jaschick; Plagiarism Prevention without Fear