Friday, March 19, 2010
plagurism do's and don'ts/ Unit 4
Well, I think that plagurism is so easy to do when you don't know the rules. I don't think I have ever had any reference to just how extensive plagurism can go until this class. I was a bit astonished at how careful you have to be. I can understand though. If someone had taken my words and used them as their own, I would probably confront that person and make it known that their "ideas" were actually my ideas. I think with some practice I can begin to get the hang of avoiding all the possibillities of plagurising someones work. Besides that, it was actually a bit hard to find particular documents to back up my thesis statement, which was about proper nutrition, exercise, and diets for pregnant women. I tried many different word combo's and it took forever just to find one or two I could actually use. Bummer. But, I did it!
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I some times use others ideas because they have great ideas that I did not think of. They said it great and I could not come up with anyting better. Sorry if I have borrowed anyone's stuff as you can tell from this blog, my thoughts are not very thrilling on there own.
ReplyDeleteMaria
I too have used information from other sources. However, I do try to include the source of my information, so the original author get the credit due. And I also paraphrase as well as possible, the information I use. I too have used general information that is open to the public.
ReplyDeleteSome good sources might be the .gov and .org sites, as well as the Health Dept sites.
Here is a link you might want to review
ReplyDeletehttp://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp001.cfm
You can search for all kinds of information on nutrition and pregnancy.
Good luck, and congratulations!!