Blog Post #8 BBG Chapter Seven

In Chapter seven “Integrating & Documenting Sources” the book talks about the trappings of plagiarism, how paraphrasing can be plagiarism, summarizing, and what to do to avoid plagiarizing.The dictionary definition of plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Some synonyms to this word are piracy, theft, and stealing. Plagiarism has never been associated with anything good and can have tragic and long lasting effects you can lose admission and are almost guaranteed too. The consequences far out way any foreseen benefit. Now naturally we all paraphrase and summarize but it's through not cutting and pasting that we add to ideas making them our own. Then there is always citing the work you took from. You have to give credit where credit is deserved. Now it's really important to cite sources for authors recognition because anybody can forget to cite a source or think they aren't using the ideas they saw earlier so it's always important to cite every source just in case nobody likes getting kicked out of school. The book expertly gives ways to avoid plagiarizing like in text citations and how to summarize by taking the meaning and putting it your own words and not using specific examples from the text like you may use when paraphrasing. One thing that was very interesting is the way I’ve learned to paraphrase is plagiarism at least it is if you don’t cite the ideas you’re drawing from, this is called a parenthetical citation. All this information has become very important with project two coming up and needing to accurately cite the resources I will be using.