Plagiarism Tutorial by Chaoyi

Question 2:

If students need to write a research paper about an aspect that they do not know much about except some common sense from the textbook, how could they properly cite the knowledge? This is a typical situation because students are going to learn something they do not know. In the way, the study may often reach the area that students have never been taught. This is the high time to learn something new. According to the answer, the safest way to avoid plagiarism is to acknowledge the source where you get the information.

                From this question, I learned that citing is a necessary part of a paper. Students are learning something that already found by the previous talents in the past. So the existed knowledge is mostly published by certain material. Common knowledge is obviously a part of the knowledge and probably is written in the books. That is why students need to cite this information with acknowledging.

Question 8:

                If students copy the words from the internet, is it a kind of plagiarism? This situation is also very common in students’ academic lives because the information on the internet is too easy to access. Additionally, students consider the data on the website to be official and accurate.

                From the answer, I learned that the information on the internet is also a kind of intellectual property. When students copy the words from the web, it is also considered to be “stealing” others ideas. Even though it is a good way of learning and reading the material from the internet, students should not rely on it and should have independent thoughts. Most importantly, a reference is always necessary after a quotation in the paper.