WEEK 3

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
-Wilson Mizner


Hi everyone,the last week was very intresting in my Internet and Multimedia classes. Because we took a quiz about how to evaluate a web site, it was difficult for me because I didn't undersatand well about that topic. However I got seven in that quiz. The quiz was in hot potatoes program, this program I studied in my last semesters, so I knew how it works.The quiz was just in eight minutes. After that, the teacher had to go out of the class, but in that time we had to participate in the forum about Plagiarism. The teacher gave us some interesting pages to read about this topic like: http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/pg1.html. In order to complete that task we have to follow some questions such as: What is citing? Why is citing important? What is a citation? When should we cite? What does paraphrase mean? What does quotation mean?. With my partner we asked for that questions in a short paragraph that we uplate in Aula Virtual class. Our paragraph explain about those questions, so I included our paragraph here.Plagiarism is turning someone’s work as your own. In this way we have to know how to do to avoid it. Fist, we have to know what citing is. Citing is to mention the author’s ideas and to distinguish between your own ideas from other author’s. It is important because it helps to develop our critical thinking and it helps us to make a very original job, creating new ideas to share with others your own way to see the things. Second, we must do citations in our works. Citation is a way to tell the readers of the information comes from another source. It helps us to find more information about the author`s ideas to research something else. Consequently, we should cite in different situations. First, whenever you use quotes. These are short notes to recognize that a text come from another source. Second, whenever you paraphrase. It means to say something that is already said in other words. Also, whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed. Third, whenever you make specific reference to the work of another and whenever someone else's work has been critical in developing your own ideas.. In the class we exposed about APA Style (American Psychological Association). It is about the rules and conventions established for documenting sources used in a research paper. I think that is important to avoid plagiarism someone's else work.

Then, in this class I learned reading information and surfing in the net to get more ideas. Also I improve my knowledge with my partner's expositions. In that way we share our opinions about the topic with the class.

Finally, I am going to apply my new knowlege to use someone's else ideas from the internet in my homework. Because sometimes is very difficult use our words to explain something, but now I know that plagiarism is a very serious problem. In our society we should change the way of investigate to improve our critical thinking.