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11 11 11 11 11 GEN 105 I love being in the
information age. There are so many
wonderful tools available that allow for making connections so much easier. I
love James Burkes work in his series “Connections” where he does just that,
seeing how things connect that seams to be just
random and out of place with each other. My favorite of his connections with
this web site helps identify and clarify you the writer from you the observer
with an un-clarified idea, hypothesis, theory, or
even proof is what is the link between baseball and the Cuban missile crisis?
Answer is in the clarifying the position of the history involved with the
power brokers. Castro’s humiliation
over not being picked up by an American baseball team turned to revenge,
turned into that political nightmare.
Any careful observer can miss any given fact and just copy those facts
into place, without understanding the ramifications of that event. The
difference between plagiarism and original work is this,
understand what the item you are writing about is. No one has ever said the truth is easily,
in fact, blind truth is one of the hardest of all things to not only deal
(I.E. use in a thinking/philosophical way)with but have to work (I.E. the
hard physical application, it is one thing to know how a vacuum works in the
lab but another to put that vacuum process
to work on a rug.) with research and plagiarism, the application of
not only knowing what a fact is, but how that fact applies to you and the
world is what an academic paper is all about, if you know what it is, then
that fact is your fact not plagiarism, unless the words you use are the words
of someone else to describe what that fact is, if you do that, and not make
careful note of it in your description then you are steeling
their idea. IF you know what that fact is, but you think someone else
describes it better, that is the difference.
It is a little
rough, but I wanted to get the thought out of my head. I will try and revisit
this again, writing it better. Shawn Coming from a point of view that with out word autocorrect and a
excellent dictionary at my ehands. My sentences and
grammar are illegible. I can say as a fact, 5 times proof reading is the only
way to go about a composition. The reason for proof reading is not
for the score in the class but the discipline of learning how to write. For those of us with chicken scratch
writing. Building the discipline is the key to success. Shawn I have no justification for
plagiarism, but some legal aspects of our culture not only justify plagiarism
but encourage it. I am very sorry to say. It can be spotted by looking for
sentences of "to prove this is your idea, beyond a shadow of a
doubt", and similar directions of legalities is what my thoughts come
from. There is also legal plagiarism when a
big company buys your patent and putts that patent in a vault. Television was
hidden in a vault till the guy that invented it his patens expired. Then the
big radio and electronic manufacturers came out with their newly patented
versions and cleaned up money wise. This kind of plagiarism happens all the
time in the American legal system. I am very sorry to say. Both versions,
either a poor I T person creates a good design and more money then their entire family has seen is talk about, who can
turn that down? Or the your lawyers are pro-bono and
or a friend who is in prelaw going against a firm. My point is,
legal plagiarism happens in this culture. I do not like it but. Shawn W4d4 bill willie your own voice For me plagiarism is a very hard thing to do, I have such a heavy personality and hard voice that I rarely think of what others have wrote. Let alone try and copy their voice. But as to how to maintain your vision and not take on the vision of another author when doing research either on the net or on the library, for others it is a difficult thing I would imagine. Just keep what you want to say firmly in your mind as you write what you want to write or say, and if you come across an idea or a paper that comes close to agreeing with you that is great but keep your own self to be true. Your own voice, what you have to contribute is a very important thing, your point of view is special, and just always remember even if another author seems like they have a better idea or way to write then you do, you have no idea how your work will be received by those that not only listen to you but want to read what you wrote. You have no right to deny your audience your voice, your point of view, your way of understanding what you have learned in the way you created it. Just think did big Willy “the bard” think or worry about his work was not up to those that he considered to be the greats? Shawn W4q2 paragraph 15 What about copy from one its
plagiarism copy from dozens or hundreds its research? As well as the 15% rules. Change
something 15% from the original and its
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