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The most important things I learned is how wide the range of plagiarism is. Ar the beginning of the class I just believed that I know everything about plagiarism and I would never accuse by it. However, I was totally wrong. At that time, plagiarism for me is just about copy other's homework, forget cite the resources, and use whole paper without credit. After learning the situation Marita and Aurora, I recognize that we should not only cite some statistic data, but also the abstract ideas. Moreover, we should mark different with other's ideas. I know deeply about the plagiarism. Farthermore, I learn that out ideas may be weak without evidences. I try to refer other's idea to strong my ideas and it works well for my paper. However, I found really difficult for me to find the evidence to prove my statement on opposite. I can't deny that it really help us to thinking completely. Although I improve my logical thinking, I still have to work on my writing skills and word accumulation.

For my DST, I really had a hard time to work for it. At the beginning, I have no idea what topic I want to write about. Finally, I decide to write a friendship story. I have no confident finish the job perfectly. I desire to make my file like a experts level. I was so pressure that even refuse to begin my work. However, the process of making film was really interesting, which release my nervous. I gradually realize how stupid and childish my worry is. That is because the aim of film is to show our real emotion and feeling instead of capability showing off. As a result, I work for the basic step, I choose the pictures and edit my record. Putting them together. I feel pretty satisfy with my work.

Blog 6 by Shengnan

The most important topic in EDU 106 is plagiarism. I have learned how to avoid plagiarism and how to cite other sources properly. For example, in Lives on the Boundary, the author, Mike Rose presents a situation in which a student is involved in the boundary of plagiarism. By the example that Marita is accused by plagiarism, I know that I can’t combined some words and sentences from old encyclopedia. When I want to use other’s ideas or points, I should paraphrase the original sentences. Paraphrasing is really a difficult problem for me, I always have some mistakes about verb tense and propositions. In the future writing study, I will do my best to avoid these mistakes.

For my argument assignment, I think the most difficult challenge is how to find proper examples and other sources to support my argument, especially find a specific case. I spend much time to find enough proper examples for my argument essay.

I cost the whole quarter to finish my digital story. At the beginning of the quarter, I worked for my script to make sure my story is interesting. Then, I recorded for my story. I recorded three times in total to let me satisfied with my voice. At last, I found interesting and proper pictures on the Internet to make my digital story understood by audiences easily. Fortunately, when I finished my project, I love it. I believe I do my best for it!

blog 7 by chaoyi

The most important skill that I have learned in this cause is why and how to properly cite the sources.  Now I know how to use the sources to support my argument. For example, we should use quotation marks to cite the article name while type the book name use italic. The most challenging skill is the work cited. The improvements of my grammar and writing skills are due to the practices. During the continuously practice, I gradually get the feeling of writing and remember the grammar and verbs that I misused before. The tutorials did help me a lot in the aspect of grammar and syntax in writing. I still need to work on the way to find accurate quotations to support my opinion.

When I received the comments from professor, I fixed the errors and tried to understand the reasons. Then I went through the article and found some sentences that can be improved. People’s opinions of the script mostly focused on the organization and the content, like telling more about the reason why the government wants to resist Cantonese. I used the pictures following the time order. In different time period, I used the transition words to connect two paragraphs. The story is good as far as I am concerned, but the music seems to be too weak and the pictures are too much Chinese for comprehension. I have written some explanation in the video to translate the main idea of each photo.

Blog 7 Writing Self Evaluation

What have been some of the most important things you have learned about plagiarisma and academic writing in this class? Give specific examples. What was the most important and/or challenging skill you learned in composing the argument essay? Further, how have your grammar and self-editing skills improved? What has helped you to improve your grammar and syntax in writing? What areas of your writing do you still need to work on? Write a paragraph about the process of making your digital story. How did you go about revising your story script? How were people's comments helpful in revising your story? Be specific. How did you use different types of pictures and transitions to improve your visual flow? At the end of your DST process, how satisfied are you with your project? Comment in terms of the criteria: purpose, engaging, visual, voice, and detail. Do you wish you had written anything differently in your script?

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Did anti plagiarized program can help to weed out plagiarism
or it only complicated the problem by making the students and the faculty
members reaching a close end with no solution. A less known program called write
check is in the hands of students to help them to check their work from plagiarism.
The instructor Tabarrok believes that the write check program is only sending a
wrong message to students by “telling them what not to do in spite of telling them
what to do” so the students will not try to depend on themselves to avoid the
plagiarism and they will not be able to find a new conclusions or a new ideas.
also Tabarrok said this software “it teach you to obey the letter of law, but
not the spirit of law” because this program will check the submitted written
paper for the properly paraphrasing ,quotation and citation and additionally it
check for the grammar ,style of write and the spelling .
The companies which are invented the turnitin or write check
is not trying to help to prevent the plagiarism problem in the world but they
are trying to get a profit from this serious issue. Thus the software detection
was not the solution to this problem,as Panagiotis
Ipeirotis agrees that in his essay which named ”why I will never pursue
cheating again” because when people are feeling fear from anything they will
not be able to progress or giving anything to that field . consequently the
academic field will turn form a place to
giving knowledge into a prison to the students and the faculty members .Thus people
will not be able to be creative .

Blog 6 by Wangqian Huang

According the article from what we have discussed before, I learn that many students in college are familiar the policy of plagiarism, but they still do it on purpose. Therefore, my issue is how to avoid plagiarism on campus. I found out that plagiarizing papers and essay is a common phenomenon around my classmates, so I wonder what is the mainly reason to encourage them to plagiarize. After I read an article “How to avoid retractions for plagiarism: Advice from a radiology journal editor(and arXiv)” from “http://www.scoop.it/t/plagiarism” I understand that there are many problems, which stimulate this issue. Also, from my own opinion, the reason of this problem is from many aspects, such as study pressure, less efficient punishment and student’s quality. From the resource mention, professors could try to use “turnitin” and other tools to help them check whether students plagiarize or not, because those tools could improve the efficiency of checking. In a result, student will careful to do it. According my experience, I insist that students are all afraid to get involved into this situation. I believe it will definitely help school to reduce plagiarism phenomenon.

blogger-6 by juming li

With the development of the Internet, there are more and more materials put online. Student can search useful materials for their paper.  Sometimes student use the Internet materials for their paper. This problem is a general thing in China. According to SINA website survey for university student life, Most of student have ever copy Internet materials for their paper. They don't regard this behavior as plagiarize. 

Why student like copy the Internet materials, I think teacher should find a way to solve this problem. Firstly, student has not told this behavior is plagiarized before they enter the university. Secondly, professor doesn't give their a best way solve their assignment. Thirdly, this is a good way for their assignment because it is hard find by professor. Actually, the plagiarism behavior not only from student and it is also reflecting on society. I think people should find a good way to solve this problem, because this behavior is not ethics.