Tuesday, December 6, 2011

#9 Response to plagiarism article

In the article we read about plagiarism, it becomes clear that the issue of plagiarism, is not exactly set in stone. What is acceptable, is not clear as well as Turnitin.com's readings of plagiarism. The girl did not intentionally pull word for word out of her sources and into her paper. The main issue was that her work was not sited correctly but she plagiarized a 9 page paper over 53%. That's over four pages of quoting directly from the source. They were not her words, they were the sources. Plus she did not cite the sites in both the work cited as well as the citations throughout the paragraph. She only cited the sources in the work cited. Even if she did summarize from a source though, she must still cite that it was someone else's idea.