Article 6 Response: Plagiarism

For this week's blog, we were assigned to read an article on plagiarism. It presented three examples of plagiarism from three students explaining the misuse of digital copies of information online without an author. Many high school or college students intentionally or unintentionally plagiarize because they claimed that the information online was basic knowledge or there was no author therefore anyone could use that information. Plagiarism has been increasing ever since the development of the Web; it has made plagiarism so much easier, but knowing how to paraphrase and give credit separates the intention to plagiarize.

Here is a short passage from the article:
"'If you're taught how to closely read sources and synthesize them into your own original argument in middle and high school, you're not going to be temped to plagiarize in college, and you certainly won't do so unknowingly,' she said."

This passage is important because it clearly explain how to avoid plagiarism. It might seem harder than it looks, but paraphrasing is the key. Make it into your own words and summarize! Summarizing is easy and we do that everyday from grade school even until now. I definitely know that you should always give credit where it is suppose to be given as well as the fact that plagiarism is bad and prohibit in every school. However, I feel some people plagiarize without knowing so, which made me questioned a little.