Saturday, March 13, 2010

Thought of Plagiarism Assignment#1

Previously i didn't know if plagiarism is too bad. After reading this writing, i got to know many writers over the world have been considering the problem serious and important. As an amateur writer under the graduate school we should think this is very important. Culturally in Korean society the pro-writers has had no a big voice about plagiarism until now. But i realized that many other universities and organizations have argued this matter through this writing.
According to Kyoto Yamada's writing, plagiarism is a kind of stealing(Kolich,1983:143) and cheating(Murphy,1990:899). And so we should consider authorship important. We also should think about how to avoid copying others' ideas and words.
In this writing there are two main methods to solve it. One way is to use paraphrasing and the other is to lead the students to the inferential thought processes. But as a novice writer, those ways are absolutely difficult to approach. I also read the wonderful samples here. That sample was so fluent a writing. In my thought in order to write in that way we should know a lot a various knowledges about one theme or story.
To get an inferential thinking habit, we ought to be used to anological study habit. In my thought, this semester is one step to reach that goal. In spite of all these difficulties, we should not permit forgiveness of plagiarism to ourselves because plagiarism is the act of stealing of other writers' creativeness and endeavors. I think a habitual creative thought and anological reading are one way to avoid that.


What prevents ESL/EFL writers from avoiding plagiarism?: Analyses of 10 North-American college websites (Kyoko Yamada)
Assignment #1

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Jeonga :) . . . sorry to take so long to comment--you know it was my administrative mistake.

    anyway, I am glad you are aware that the differences exist and trying you best to meet the western way at least half way and trying NOT to hurt authors . . . it goes much deeper, but after that first step the rest is easier, no?

    cheers,
    e

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