Blog #8

When i visited stadium first time, i just played many things outside of the stadium and watch a football game in a bar because i have no ticket but everything like around the stadium, mood, people and game is fun. Next week, i bought 2 tickets and went to stadium with my friend. It was much more fun than i thought. I didn't take many pictures because i have no idea about DST and i concentrated and enjoyed the situation. Even though i have not many pictures and videos, i decided to write and make a Digital Story Telling because i want to introduce the football game and go with my classmates. The most interesting thing while i do my assignment is the fact that i can make a movie. As it was my first time, It was little bit challenging but most interesting. Especially playing with pictures and my recorded voice was really amazing. On the other hand it was most difficult thing. I had ever not used a movie maker or imovie. so i had to ask in the class. But as i do several times i can make a movie easily. Making a DST and writing academic is similar in plagiarism. Both of them should contain the sources. Importance of selecting subject is similar too. Different thing is how express the subject. In writing author rely on only words but DST can use picture, music, voice and so on.

As i made DST, i try not to disturb intellectual property. To do this i made credits in the back of video. I learned how i express my sources when i make a video.

Blog8# mengxiong liu(patrick)

    In my digital story.First i need to do is get a outline of my

story .What i need to say and what kinds of photos i need to put on

it .At the time i write my outline .I put my memory together into a

story .By the way ,I enjor the time on organize the memory.At that

time ,i feel more about my lifetime.One years ago ,i just a little

boy sit in classroom ,But now i'm a freshman of ohio state. I will

never forget what's happen in this year.Then i'm ready to search the

photo in website or my own photos.That is the most interesting thing

is search photos.Because i have a long time not see my photos,that

can help me to awaken recollection with my firends. The next step is

 make a movie .I think that part is the most challenging step for me

.I really have no idea how to put music in it .I follow the way that

teacher teach me .But it still not work.I think DST is focus on

personal story,but academic essay is more serious than DST.People

can tell their own story in DST,But the arguement point is necessary

in academic essay .

     In my DST,i make a list of the website where i download in

internet. I respect the intellectual property.I have learn lot in

this class ,and i know how important that i use citaion in paper.

#8

I like Digital Story telling project, because it is new experience for me, it’s not academic, let me remember old happy days and force me to learn a new application on my Mac which is iMovie. Because I have traveled to Auckland, New Zealand, so I didn’t have difficulties to get picture for my project and the picture from the web was from google.com, which allow us to search fast whatever we are looking for. I was interested in telling my story in attracting the attention of watchers; therefore, I rewrote my story several times. The challenge was how to combine the picture I have to fit with my story and find good picture from the Internet fit to my story also. There are many similar aspects between writing an academic essay and DST. First of all, the transaction in the DST is movement and in writing it is words. Second, avoid plagiarism in both of them. The different is DST is alive and writing is boring.

To avoid plagiarism in DST is very easy because you create your own ideas and story from your mind. I used some picture from the Internet and it is not mine so put the like for the picture to have the permission to use the picture. I learned to give credit to the owner of the things. We have learned a lot of plagiarism rules; therefore, it was easier for me to avoid it in DST.

#8 Jaehoo

When I started my digital story project, I had no specific plan that will support me to finish this project successfully. I did not have lots of real pictures that illustrate several important scenes and my feelings about some interesting situations. I had only one real picture. Because I did not have lots of real pictures, I began to search pictures through internet. Mostly I tagged pictures from google web sites. I attempted to find pictures drawn by pen or pencile, because I did not want to tag pictures from other people. Therefore, most of pictures in my video are cartoon or picture drawn by pencile and pen. This project was really fun to me. When I tried to find pictures that illustrate my story, it was hard but also fun. In my opinion, this project is really challenging project, and also different meaningful project from academic writing project and essay assignments. Most academic writing and essay assignments should be organized and I should follow the steps. In those writings, I cannot reveal my feelings to some topic, rather I should write like I agree or I disagree with this topic because of several reasons and facts. It is really bored and hard to write creative essays. However, this digital story project does not have specific rules or steps. I can reveal my feelings and thinkings in many ways. I think this is the major difference between essay assignments and video project.

This video digital story project is kind of free assignment that we can create and appear our feelings and thinkings without limiting rules, but it requires students to use intellectual property to avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct. We have been learning academic misconduct and plagiarism since long time ago. We should used intellectual property at the end of this project. I used lots of pictures from internet sites, not from my own picture. It means I required to write reference resources to complete this project without any misconduct or against academic rules. I almost used over 25 pictures from internet. Mostly, I did reference resources and posted at the end of the video except few pictures. While I was doing this project, I realized that I should do posting or writing copywrite not only when I write essay and writing assignment, but also when I do video project and any other project if I use resources from internet, book, or even other people's opinions. As a result, I learned a lot of things again, and this project remind me again to do reference resources!

Blog 8 # Chanho Park

I have found my pictures in the army on the website that I joined for the commemorative army camp in the past. The most interest things I felt is that I could see and feel a lot of my life time at that time. Obviously, spending two years in my life time in the army is not quite good, however, I can say it was really good to know how treat etiquette to older people than me and for build up my ego for better living a life. The things like these remind me to have strong mind to make my own way to live a life. The challenge things, whereas, was that I should do what I could not convey military words meaning well into English because there is no specific terminology in English for various Korean military glossaries. I was regret that there was no exact way to explain well the words in every detail for more fun to know. The similar thing between working digital story and writing an academic essay is that I should keep write with the copyright manner such as put a credit or resource comment in order. This is why I should have keep considerations for distinguishing that which one is mine, and which one is others’. Contrary to this, the different thing is that when I work digital story, I do not needed to consider with subjective view because of it is not required to objective point of view like academic manner. In other words, I can freely work based on my experience in the past, not in constrained by formal boundary.

While I work digital story, I could not ignore without license even if it was really good picture or music. The things I have been studying is about plagiarism and forbidden copying from other's work. Also, I have learned a lof of using intellectual property that I should not plow with other people's work like put a comment or credit for distinguishing the copyright. Althought copying a work without obtaining permission may appear to be an easy way to accomplish the work, but such unauthorized copying can frequently viloate the right of the author or publisher of the copyrighted work.

Blog #8 Digital Storytelling and Academic Writing

In this blog, you are to reflect on the work you have done all quarter on the digital story project which focused on a personal instead of academic topic. In your first paragraph, summarize the process(blogging, searching pics, etc.) you used for producing your digital story. What parts of it were most interesting and which parts of it were more challenging. How was it similar to writing an academic essay?e How was it different?
Then, in a second paragraph, discuss what aspects of intellectual property usage you have to consider in the process. What did you learn about the use of intellectual property from this process?

Blog #7

Through those ten questions about plagiarism. The first question and the second question are pretty interesting me because I always confuse about the common knowledge and what is wrong in rewriting my old paper or copying the sentences from my own paper. The first question asks me that I found out I had a same assignment as last time. And it was a longer paper than last time. So if I added a few sentences from my old paper, was I plagiarizing from myself? What I would do for that? I chose to ask the teacher whether I can revise my old paper and got permission from the teacher that I would not get in trouble for doing that. I used to don’t think that much about plagiarism. I don’t think copy the sentences from my own work is plagiarism. Because it is my own work, it is written by me, why I can’t put my old opinion to the paper. But I realized that I don’t learn anything from just copy the old sentences and put them into my longer paper. I should be respect to my assignment and my instructors, because the purposes of the assignments are made for helping me to think and learn.

For the second question, it is about whether we should cite the common knowledge or not. I have a similar experience when I was in high school. I just learn about breast cancer during the class, and we need to make a presentation for that. But all I knew about the information of breast cancer are all from the textbook. So I didn’t put any reference and citation in the end of my PowerPoint. I was assuming everybody knows where were those information came from. But I got a warning from my teacher said even it was from textbooks, they still need to be cited. Those two questions attracted me when I first read this tutorial. It was a challenge for me to adapt to plagiarism when I was in high school, but I am glad that I learned those from my high school.

Blog #7

If you use information which is called "common knowledge" from book, what are you supposed to do?
should you cite it or not? I undoubtedly thought it is no but the answer was Yes. " the reason was common knowledge" is like any different sort of knowledge, so you have to cite it. I was really surprised because in Korea, plagiarism is usually about only the others by implication. when you write an essay from books, you don't need to cite the source. Korean thinks it is okay because "common knowledge" is prevailed information.
In this question, the answer is totally different from Korea. It is so lucky that i know about citing "common knowledge" before i do a mistake in any writing. It can be an issue in my school work. If i didn't know it, i would do as same style in Korea then i did a plagiarism unintentionally.

Another question that i was surprised is question number 4. it is about the group work. it says if one of your members gave you an good idea, what are you doing? the answer is you have to indicate the source. it was really interesting answer for me too. i thought since it is 'group' work, individual can be ignored but it was not. you have to express the source even though it is group project. i learned from this that if i am not sure about the plagiarism, I'd better cite it and there are many differences between my home country, Korea and America so i should learn them and understand them.

Blog 7

The Online tutorial, which is created by Dr. Bloch, is very helpful in understanding plagiarism. This tutorial is very good source of information for me because it helped me understanding properly the rules of plagiarism and how should I work in order to prevent plagiarism. With the help of this tutorial it describes different situation in front of student and it would help student to understand the rules of plagiarism properly. I found question 3 and 4 interesting. In question 3 Dr Bloch has proposed a scene in which a student found reference of the article but he is not able to find the book in which the article is stated so what should the student do does he need to cite the author or not. I would say that the student should not use the article because he is not able to find the book and if he has not read the book then there might be some ethical issues. And he would not give a proper idea about the book. The student should search for the book and if he gets the book then only he should use the idea or else he should use another idea. In question 4, I would say if you are given a opportunity to discuss about an issue before writing an essay then the whole group would discuss ideas and it would lead into reoccurring of ideas in the essay of that particular group members. The reason why I can use the ideas it is that the purpose of group discussion was that to discuss the ideas with each other. Thus the conclusion given by that particular group is going to come same. And if a student can’t do this then what was the reason for sharing the ideas in a group before writing the essay.

Thus I would say that the tutorial created by Dr. Bloch is very helpful for me, as it has helped me in understanding the proper rules of plagiarism.

Blog 7 # Chanho Park

While I was answering thru 10 different questions, I realized that there are various plagiarism cases I did not know and real definition of plagiarism. In this tutorial, my understanding of the plagiarism situation is that every academic papers such as assignments are required his or her responsibilities of processing and inventive. This is because, even if someone had perfect work on paper, if there were suspicions about the impartially contrary to others’ work, it would not be a counted as a best.

The most interesting thing in this tutorial is a question 6 which is asked that if professor has taken student’s course writing for a course, is that a plagiarism or not. I surprised that the answer is ‘yes’. The reason is that everything I write down a paper, it belongs to me, and therefore, copying a paper written for class is the same as copying a paper that is published. Also, I realized that I should fully understand my paper. This is why I think that all the students who studying in America should deeply study about plagiarism before attend any school. In addition, I was touched by question 5 which is whether do post contents with cut and paste from internet is bad or not. The answer says that the quotation should be represented in paper copy from other contents such as internet or book. Before I have learned plagiarism, I have thought put quotation or cite in writing is not only empty formalities and vanity. However, I realized the writing without a boundary between inventive idea and copied idea, there is not a real writing with learning various cases of plagiarisms in this tutorial website.

To sum up, I believe people should always aware to distinguish which one is mine, and which one is others’ when they work on paper in every single time.

blog 7 by Gina

From the tutorial that Dr Bloch prevent I found out some quite important facts that I wasn’t care enough before. One issue is about group work. The question described that in a peer group work the whole group came up a great idea, and whether it is necessary to cite the idea if it has been applied in your work. The answer indicated that the idea cannot be as an “intellectual property”, but it is better to cite it as a “personal communication” in order not to be considered as plagiarism.  From this case I learn a proper way to handle idea that work by groups. This might be a challenge because sometimes group work might hard to define. On one hand this actually include the personal work, on the other hand this might also mixed in some other people’s work. So it is not easy to define whether to cite or not. In my country we actually don’t care that much of ideas that come out by bunch of people. So we don’t have to worry about being accused as plagiarism. However as long as I learned the solution for this issue I may not have problem in it.

The second issue is about how to cite the things appear in the text book. The question mainly argues the way to give proper definition of common knowledge and to cite it or not. In the answer it shows that the safest way is to cite. This could be a huge challenge for us international student because we might have a different view for “common knowledge”. In our country I think the ideas appeared in a text book can be called “common knowledge”, and don’t have to be cited. After the correct direction given by the tutorial I will be more careful to cite any resource.

I found question 3 and 5 interesting . In question 3, Dr. Bloch proposes the situation asking what students should perform to cite the article where the author uses the idea from the other article and the source of the idea can not be found. In order to meet the situation, students can avoid the accusation by showing the fact that they cite the property. This type of problem is difficult to determine whether it can be plagiarism or not because the person who violate “secondary citation” rule should not always be punished: the reason why the pathway to the original can not be found can be the situation that the author just forgot to attribute to the original source. When I was about to write the lab report in Japan, I often use the way. I searched what I need to know from the textbook or some sources which contain what they call “common knowledge” , then I trace the original recourse from the reference lists on the textbooks.The act was not regarded as plagiarism in Japan at all, however it can be punished in US.

Next, question 5 provides the case that students forget in which article an opinion derived from a set of data. Students are expected to give up citing it directly then search the other thesis discussing a similar topic and find the answer from the article. Though it is obviously illegal to cite the meaning to the data without citation, it is difficult for me to understand why we need to give up citing that only because of forgetting where the interpretation comes. If you remember the data belongs to some article, it should be allowed to cite it with showing such as “this interpretation to the data was cited, and it is not my idea.”

blog 7

After I finish doing those ten questions online (www.esl.osu.edu/staff/bloch/plagiarism), I feel its very avail. For example, the question 3 describes the secondary citation. It is talking about citing article from another article and you can’t find out if it is copy from the original article. I never hear it from my country so I think it is a very interesting topic. In China, where I come, even though it’s incorrect to cite others’ views word by word, many college students download many pieces of paper online and use them in their paper without changing the words. This behavior in America would be regarded as plagiarism and the students who did it would get punished. However, many Chinese students always get rid of this punishment because professors always ignore this problem so that students could graduate easily. So, it is sometimes difficult for us to remember the rules of the plagiarism and sometimes we would easily use others’ ideas without explaining whose idea it is. So it is a little different. It is not a strict plagiarism but if you take the citation, it will have highly risk.

Question 4 is mainly talking about using other’s idea. This question ask about if some times I discuss with a group and I am interesting in someone’s idea, can I cite the idea like I cite the idea from a paper. In my opinion, we can not use other people’s idea directly. If you want to use it, you must cite it as you cite other normal paper or you can explain that this idea is your group’s idea. I don not think it has a big challenge because if you cite it as “personal communication”, you can easily avoid the plagiarism. I do not want to get in trouble so I would like to change another idea and in this way, other people would not consider it plagiarism.

Blog 7 Junghyun Hong.

 In the “The Plagiarism Tutorial”, Dr. Joel Bloch presents 10 questions of plagiarism to help understanding plagiarism. The questions ask us how we think that it is plagiarism or not in 10 situations. The most interesting questions were 1 and 2. I got new information about plagiarism and it helps me not to plagiarize.

 The number 1 question is about revising my written assignment to the other class. At first, I thought that the correct answer was the third one, “Choose another topic and write a different paper”, because it is the certain way to prevent plagiarism. However, when I clicked the first one, “Ask your 107g teacher whether you can rewrite the paper”, I realized that if the instructor approves it, I can use my assignment again. I have thought that we should not reuse other’s writing so far, even it was mine. I had some questions about it before. If I wrote my firm opinion about one subject, and I wrote and used it before, then, why I can’t revise those in same subject even though it is my opinion. However, this question answers it as I can revise it when the instructor approves it.

 In addition, I newly know that I need to cite all information even though it is common information by question number ‘2’. I have thought that I can ignore to cite common ideas because everyone knows it already. However, in the question, it informs that it is the safest way to cite that information to prevent plagiarism. In Korean culture, revising textbook is the best way to show one’s knowledge and to proof that someone studied it sincerely. Also, the instructor who got common information without citation in student’s paper doesn’t think it plagiarism. This makes Korean and other international students to plagiarize without awareness. I think that international students should study plagiarism

Blog#7- Maggie

In the questionnaire “The Plagiarism Tutorial” (www.esl.edu/staff/bloch/plagiarism) designed by Dr. Joel Bloch, I’ve read 10 questions involved with plagiarism. As an international student, I met some hardships in the academic work. However, after learning from this course, I have grasped the correct centre concepts and definitions of common knowledge and the specific norms in academic field to avoid the violation.
In the questionnaire, there are two questions which are my most concerned issues associated with common knowledge and self-plagiarism. Firstly, in the question #1, Dr. Bloch describes a situation whether student can use their own paper as another course’s assignment paper. The other question is #2 which addresses the concept of common knowledge. In America, even though using their own work and the content of textbooks, students still have to cite the sources in a proper specialized way as the same way of citing other kinds of formal resources. Otherwise, student may be accused by plagiarism. Because of cultural differences, in China the rules of academic work are not as strict as American. Chinese students feel free to use their own work and the common knowledge without citation.
From this course, I’ve learned various types of plagiarism which help me a lot to prevent academic misconduct in my further study.

Blog #7

After finished the 10 quiz, "The plagiarism tutorial", on the Internet, I can understand some specific situations, and these tutorial questions give me a window opportunity to improve my writing skills without plagiarism. Also, two questions, question 3 and question 5, aroused my interest which I have not though about.
Question 2 attracts my attention with very common situations. this question talks common knowledge, so do not know using citation or not. The answer is clear. We should use citation even it is common knowledge. In this question, I know what is correct answer. However, I always wonder how can I distinguish between common or not. Also, I wonder that these common idea can be used cite or not even it is common knowledge in a new field. However, question 2 shows how to prevent plagiarism in the new field. Common knowledge also same as other intellectual properties, so it is not mine. Thus, using citation is the best way to avoid plagiarism. Also, question 3 shows secondary citation which do not include original writing's credit in the reference, and the best way to solve this problem is searching other articles or if there are few writing which related with topic, I can use it with appropriate citation. I do not think about this situation because a article without quotation considers their own idea, and many article do not include appropriate citation on their blog especially. So, I confuse that article on the internet without credit is their own word or not. Many writing is shared on the Internet in Korea, and a lot of writing do not include appropriate citation in the article. So, students do not use credit because it is shared writing.
Through this 10 questions, I learned new strategy to prevent plagiarism. not only common knowledge in the text book but also secondary citation are should be use citation to avoid academic misconduct or plagiarism.

#7 Jae

I solved 10 different questions. This online website provides really beneficial information to me to understand more deeply and widely about plagiarism. There were several questions that I already learned in class, so it was kind of easy to get correct answers. Like number one,we have seen this situation through three cartoons that we went over at teh beginning of the quarter. I learnd that using old paper is also considers as plagiarism. For me, this online quiz was interested, because this questions are not only asking about copying and using other resources, but also asking about citiation, group discussion, and essays for other classes as well. The most interesting question for me is number 5. That question was asking about writing a paper about scientific paper. The answer for this question was "try to find someone else who has discuss this issue and then use their citation to find the original article". This question really helped me to avoid plagiarism during science classes, or when I type lab reports. Due to my major is science, I was mostly concerned about this issue. After I went over these 10 different questions about plagiarism, I learend general and more specific rules. In detail, I learned that in science major, it is also important to not sharing scientific result or any cites that other student already used. I think USA and South Korea have similar rules about plagiarism when we type lab report or using sources without any references or do not maintain originality. As a result, this questions reminded me again to realized how it is important to do citation and maintain originality by typign reference resources.

After I have read the ten questions, I started understanding the meaning of plagiarism from different sides. There were two questions which took my attention somehow. The first one question is number 2 and the other one is number 4. I would say those might be the most difficult question that I didn't be able to answer them.

The number 2 question talked about the common knowledge which uses by many people. Sometimes you have to write a research paper and you are a new student who always his background comes from textbook. You are not very sure if you should cite common knowledge or not. Some people think that common knowledge can be shared by anyone without a citation. But, other people disagree with them because they say that common knowledge still belongs to someone who wants his ideas to be citied. Personally I believe that depends on the situation; for example, if you want to be more clearly with your professor and you have to show him that you are working hard by finding the sources and citing them. Therefore, the answer of the Web site was that you need to cite the information from the textbook you read.

The last question is number 4 is more difficult than the first one. This question mentioned that for instance there is a group of students and they discuss some ideas which related to same homework. If one member of the group said an interesting idea would you take it and write it down. This question has two differences opinions. One side believes that the purpose of the group is to share ideas and students don't need to cite them. On the other hand, others consider that as a plagiarism because it belongs to that person and students can cite it as "Personal communication". Actually, I agree with the last group who think that if you take an idea from others, you need to cite it.

Blog #7 by Leila

    This online resource about plagiarism is very impressive to me, because it let me know plagiarism much better than before. Question number 3 describes a secondary citation which I have never thought about it before. It is mainly about what we should cite is the original article rather than " the reference to interesting article cited in another article ". That means whatever articles we use, we must alert to find out the original one and cite it. Citing the reference article will be very risky because the citation is not accurate. Under certain circumstance, we must ignore the citation because of unable to find the original article, especially when we work with few resources and it is impossible to find the reference, but "we may not able to do this very often". Question 4 is another interesting question about students sharing their idea during group discussion, and I can use an good idea in my paper but it belongs to one of my group members without citing him instead of citing the idea as "personal communication". The reason why I can use another one's idea in my paper is that the purpose of group discussion is to share everyone's idea on the topic and I have the right to reflect the conclusion of our group's discussion in my paper. If I can not do this, then why do we need to discuss it before writing it.
   I learned two rules from those 10 questions, one is citing the original article and the other is citing the idea discussed in a group as "personal communication" to avoid committing misconduct or plagiarism.

Blog #7

I read through these questions and I’m surprised about many of them. Some of the question I didn’t able to answer and I was wondering do they really consider that a plagiarism. The most interesting question is question 4. I find it reasonable.

In question 4, you are in study group and you want to discuss the subject. Everyone came up with new idea to share and discuss. You found a good idea from another student and you want to mention the idea in your paper, Do you think that consider as a plagiarism or not and why?

On my opinion this is can be good you are away from suspicion because you were in-group discussing idea and share the same idea. Yet, in the default answer dr. Bloch addresses this is fade we can not consider it as plagiarism or not, we don’t know some of then consider it as plagiarism and some not, the main goal from making group is sharing ideas and you don’t have to cite it unless it is written down by someone. I learn if somebody make group that, we will have to use the idea within the group, because we are group and this is the goal for that. It isn’t challenging for me, because it reasonable rule and it will be helpful for students. I don’t think I will face this issue in my academic life.

The second interesting question is question 3. In question 3, you were reading and you find that the article is good for you, but the problem is the article refers to another article and you can’t reach the main one. Anyone can use it and cite for the seconded article without it copying and wording. Dr. Bloch states this is consider as plagiarism and you can’t take peril for this even if you cite it. On my opinion, there is no risk to do that if I cite it as the second one, because we don’t know for who is the idea is it for first author or the second. I find this issue is challenging and should be changed. It will affect my educational life, because when I need the information I will use it and cite as the second one.

Blog#7 by Kaier Feng

I have finished the 10 different questions surrounding plagiarism on the designate website(www.esl.osu.edu/staff/bloch/plagiarism). In those questions, I think the most confusing and challenging one is the question 8, which asks if I regard the situation of cutting and pasting an good article  and posting it online without citation as a action of plagiarism. I am really confused and my answer seems to be "No"because my concept of the judgement of plagiarism about downloading and posting resources from network is quite vague. Then the answer comes out that this action is always at the risk of plagiarism and we are supposed to cite the source so that we are absolutely free from the accusation. It is hard for me to understand because in China, the cutting and posting things without citation is general and the standard of the judgement of intellectual property violating is not as strict as that in America. It seems to be a trend that people like to share the excellent and interesting work which they enjoy from network and try to be social and advocated. It is convenient to simply copy and show it to public, but, the fact is that people is always regardless of intellectual property and originality. Things like video, novel and music are always communal in China, which is totally different from roles in America. So, it must be a challenge for me in my future work.


From the answer of this question, I learnt how the rule of online cutting and pasting runs in the america's system and I'll try to absorb the knowledge through some kind of practice. I am quite confident of acclimating the new academic world with sustainably learning.

Bolg 7 DongJin Li

I finished those questions. And I felt that the most interesting question is the second one. The question is that should I cite the common knowledge which is from the textbook or not when I write a research paper. And I choose that I should cite it. Because I don’t want to get into any unnecessary troubles. The answer told me that is the safest strategy.

For many students, the information from the textbook is some common knowledge which doesn’t need to be cited. Or they just don’t want to do that. They think that is an unnecessary and useless behavior. And it is not a big deal in most time. However, the world is full of surprises. Maybe some authors or professors see your paper when they have a very bad day and then get very angry because you are a potential plagiarism criminal. So, it’s not just a challenge for me, but a big potential challenge for every student. This situation is quite different from my educational culture. First of all, in my country, nobody will think that somebody use some common knowledge without cite the resource is a plagiarism behavior. Even a professor accuses a student who doesn’t cite the common knowledge resource has a plagiarism problem; the dean will prefer to give this student another chance and call that professor as a “trouble maker” in private. Second, in China, our culture always prefers to give people another chance. We understand that some people made mistake, just because they don’t know rules. We don’t like destroy a person’s life or future in some simple and unreasonable way. I see a lot of culture conflicts between Chinese and western people. The first one says that the innocent is not the one to blame. The last one says that rules is rules. For me, it would not be an issue for me. As Chinese people said that Smart guys know the ins and outs. I don’t want to have any academic troubles in this strange country. So, I will cite everything I can.

Blog 7#

    I'm done all ten questions, and i found those questions are difficult to finish.I have interest to discuss Question 4 , It let me know that we can share our idea in group ,and the content we discuss is become a publish knowledge.But what i want to say is ,if i don't want my teammate to cheating my idea. What i need to do ?In my opinion ,i need to say "Next, i want to say is my personal idea , i hope your guys can find the other idea to done your paper,not just same as me" .Then tell your professor your idea ,and make sure let him know what you want to do with your teammate.In other way ,i think discuss is a way to know each other better.From teamwork ,you can get more and more thought .But at first ,i think each of people need have their idea.In that way ,people can get more information to increase their own idea,not just copy others.

    I also have interest to talk about question 2,I get a challenge in the concept of common knowledge.Different culture have different concepts of common knowledge. For example ,in China.People use their textbook to finish their homework ,and no cite of it.We think the knowledge in the textbook is let us to use in our life,and no need to cite it.But in America ,thing become different.

Blog 7 Plagiarism Tutorial

In this blog, you will summarize and reflect on an online resource about plagiarism, which was created by Dr. Joel Bloch at OSU - "The Plagiarism Tutorial." Please go to www.esl.osu.edu/staff/bloch/plagiarism. Then, read the instructions and click on Intro Tutorial. You will click thru 10 different questions concerning plagiarism. Form your own answer first, then check the answers by clicking on them. In your blog (300 words), summarize 1-2 questions you thought were the most interesting. First summarize the question and answer, then explain what you learned from it. Why was it challenging for you? Did it reflect some difference in your educational culture? Do you think this would be an issue for your own school work?

Blog 5 Memories of a Political Prisoner from Worcester(DongJin Li)

I watched a digital story which was posted by Cecyl Esau named "Memories of a Political Prisoner from Worcester". This man talks about his life and his family, especially the life as a political prisoner. However, I was not so engaging into his story. It's not very exciting and surprising. It's just ok. He talks about his tough experience as nothing. And he has a sick people's voice which is weak and inexplicit. The pacing of his voice is just like somebody chewing the gum. And the background music is that he sang some charismas song in his first language. I must say that is very original and unique. Not just because the unique style, but also the unique voice he has. He didn't use enough images. Maybe he doesn’t have many pictures. And most of those black and white pictures confused me. What were those guys doing in this picture? They just stand there and then smell. What are they doing? Show their yellow teethes?

For me, he should find more pictures, not just his own life but also that history period. Maybe he can make his voice pace up and down. His voice should be strong and full of resistant emotion when he talked about he was throw into the prison. And his should be relax and calm when he talked about some peaceful period. By doing this, his audiences can experience the same feel as he lived during that time. And the song of background should be changed to make his prisoner life sounds more exciting and dangerous. He could pay more attention on his prison life. That must be more attractive. Come on, it’s a political prisoner’s tough life, not a pupil go to a boring picnic with a boy scout or something like that. He has a very good theme. This person should let his video be very exciting and pull everyone who watched this video into his prison life.

Blog #6

I am Korean which mean I speaking Korean as a mother language. I think a writing English essay always hard work to me. I am not good at writing even Korean writing. This is why I choose engineering as my major, just calculate something. Between Korean and English have different grammar structures. In Korea, we use subject, object and then verb. It looks like odd in English speaking countries, because English grammar use subject, verb, and then object. Also, Koreans understand without subject, because we usually use it. However, English use subject with verb to prevent confusion. Not only structures but also I have many problems in English writing. Other great trouble is expression. There are many differences between mine and English essay. For example, I think "to meet new people" about starting a new relationship but it is not, and it is expressed "new acquaintances". So, I think I have to improve my grammar skills at first. Horning grammar skills give me window of opportunities to understand English writing. Through class, not only that I have to use citation or credit to prevent plagiarism and importance of intellectual properties, but also that I learn useful verb, descriptive and informative.

In my opinion, especially culture play important role as plagiarism. this is because, in Korea campus life, I did not have any concept of plagiarism before here. plagiarism is not big deal in Korea university. Just few student use citation, otherwise many student illegally use other author's article, so did I. No one no point out writing which do not mention references even clearly exist authorship. Thus, we cultivate few plagiarism or ignore notion of it. However, these concepts are not complicate after understand. Essay written by others is not mine, so if I need to use others, just mention it because it is not mine, and thus I can be set free from plagiarism.

Blog 6, Writing Self Evaluation(DongJin Li)

I didn’t have any trouble of writing in my first language before I began to writing English. I think the grammar aspect and the language organizing aspect is the most difficult. Sometimes, I write a sentence which I think is good, however, that is just in Chinese language’s habit. In English, nobody would use this kind of sentence. For example, when I was young I wrote a sentence like “ no good, I no like you. ” We called this kind of English as Chinglish to laugh at someone’s English very funny. I need to think as a western people in United States. I need to improve this. American people’s idea system is different with us. That is why some Asian people still can’t have some good articles even they exactly know how to use verbs and grammas.
I think that I understand rules of the plagiarism. It’s not big different with Chinese rules in some serious academic institutions. Culture is not a big deal in this issue. Some universities just imagine that every student knows what is right and what is wrong. However, that is just what they think. The truth is that most of students don’t know exactly whatever the rule is. The only thing we need to do and we can do is clear the rules.

Blog #6 difficulties of writing

I come from China which country has strict requirements with the qualities of writing. That situation even began with high school. As a result, I did so many exercises and practices that I have been able to write not only extremely specific essay but also poetic prose in Chinese. However, in the consideration of writing in English, there are still some aspects which are difficult for me and should be improved definitely. First of all, because of the limited vocabularies, phrases, sentences patterns, it is hard for me to paraphrase the sentences to avoid the repetition of the same words in an article. The second challenge is the organization of the article. Although having lots of training, when writing an article without adequate time and preparation, I used to thinking in the way of Chinese which will cause grammatical errors, but more importantly the chaos of organization will come up with it. Actually, before taking this class, I still have lots of problems with grammar. But after constant writing and editing, in my current article there are rarely faults of grammar. And I have grasped the correct usage of a variety of reporting verbs to prevent the entirely same words in an article.

In China, people give more focus on the writing skills rather than the academic norms involved with plagiarism. Therefore, I knew few concepts of academic misconduct even I was a senior student in a university. As a consequence of the inadequate concerns of academic misconduct, I just got a warning of using a professor’s critical essay to support my own idea in a dissertation without proper citation. Personally, the primary reason of this phenomenon is cultural differences. Specifically, different cultures have different specialized concepts of academic misconduct and different custom. Consequently, cultures do play an significant role in academic lives.

blog 6 by Gina

Up till now we already took half of our 106 course. From this I can tell many differences between me first language, Chinese and English. The challenge for me to write article in my language is to make my ideas and opinions clear through the whole article. In order to do that I have to write all the stuff exactly emphasize my main view and remember not to get digression. And in English write what really bothers me is the totally opposite way to express a point. In Chinese we first lay out many evidences to support the main idea and in the end we get a conclusion; however in English we have to show our main point first, that is, give a clear outline of the whole article, and then we do the detailed illustrations. So I have to make a huge transition. The things I think I really need to improve are grammar and vocabulary. These are the obstacles I need to concur.  Because grammar and vocabulary stuck me a lot during writing. About the things I gained from the class is the correct form of using those reporting verb. The verb can regulate may way to give a more professional report.

About plagiarism and academic misconduct, the part confuse me is to actually define what’s the resource needs to be cited and what’s not, and the definition of “common knowledge”. In our country, we don’t take much attention on cite the resource. I mean, we do put the quotation mark on others work, but it would let us fall the class if we forget to do so. Also we don’t punish seriously if bunch of share their views in individual work. I’d rather prefer “culture plays a role” in the "Cheating Across Cultures" article. Different people from different area may have various definitions towards the same idea. Like in our country we don’t take using other resource without citation seriously unless it is for profit, however in here this can make me be kicked out of school. So pretty much we have to get alone with the culture shock.

Blog#6

    My mother language is Chinese.In Chinese, I have some problems on how to use graceful words to creat my own style of writing.This is hard because it's a advanced skill in writing.In our Chinese class,teachers teached us how to express our emotion by words in a better way---rhetoric.For example,if I tell a story in Chinese, I will not only express the time,character and place of the story,but also the specific circumstance which may reflect the protagonist's emotion. In English, however, I am struggle in the unkonwn words and the organizing of the sentences.All I want to deal with English is just organize those words well and hope there are no grammar mistakes.In other words,English writing for me is the simplier the better.And to improve, I'd like to read more English materials and the most important thing is to follow the teacher's instructions and finish all the assignments well.Just like those days I feel improved in the conclusion part as the teacher teached in the classes.
    Plagiarism is a common topic in school,whatever in primary school or college.I think this topic is open-minded and we should not concentrate the punishment on it.Because plagiarism is a indifferent deal for us .Everyone has acted on plagiarism.Because the konwledge it self is first comes out by few people and they share it,then more and more people learn from it and may come up with new konwledge from it.All that in our mind is the konwledge accepted  by most people.So, for plagiarism there should be 2 kinds. One is what I have said and another is the person intend to act plagiarism to get a faster way to finish some work.And in China I believe most of us is belong in the second kind.But there is also a important reason why students do plagiarism so commonly I think is because they do not think much of the konwledge which their plagiarism in.If there is a excting idea comes up in ones mind I believe he won't act plagiarism anymore because he own his own idea.This person is different from the person who want to finish the work fast by plagiarism.And finally, if someone tells you culture do play a role in the plagiarism,then I think it's an perfect excuse-------because plagiarism is base on the person's deceiving mind but not those cultural differs.
     Thanks.

Blog 6

I come from China, so my first language is Chinese, one of the most beautiful and hardest languages in the world. In my high school, I major studied two kinds of writing; narrative writing and argumentative writing. The difficult thing is when you writing an argumentative writing, you need find a power example or a famous person’s words to prove your issue and it is hard to find a suitable proof and illuminate it. If you can not find a good example, your argumentation will be overthrown easily. While, in some aspects, those are similar with writing in English, but most are different. In some argumentative writings or summary articles, you can not use other people’s words or some sources straightly or without acknowledgement. That would be a plagiarism! Furthermore, I think I need more practice about words. I always use the same word in an article and make it very humdrum. The most useful lesson I learned is use descriptive words and informative words to summary an article. It is very important in a summary.

In my opinion, students should pay attention to plagiarism and academic misconduct because it is very significant for people when they writing article. I confused with citing other people’s words and paraphrase. In China, people do summary or writing an argumentative writing, they can use some of the author’s words or use some proofs straightly. But it is plagiarism at here. I think culture plays a very important role. In “Cheating Across Cultures”, written by Elizabeth Redden, describes the reason why International students plagiarism and I think that because different cultures have different rules. If there are no culture differences, the international students would not plagiarism in their articles. Meanwhile, different teaching style and language barriers also can cause students cheating, so that’s why I think culture plays an important role.

Blog #6

I think that the difficulty between my first language and English is that they have totally different grammars. My first language is Taiwanese, Mandarin and a little bit Japanese. Every time I write, I always have a lot of ideas for my papers, but I don’t have a well organization to put them together. They always fall apart in my articles. I am also weak in memorizing vocabulary. I need to know more vocabularies that I can do well on paraphrasing sentence avoiding academic misconduct. In Taiwanese, every word has different meaning, and combines two words is going to be another word or sometimes it is a totally different thing. There is a lot word made by A-Z alphabets in English, I sometimes get confuses about the words, such as inspired, insipid, except and expect. They look the same for me when they don’t show up together. I expect that we can do more practice on vocabulary and how to organize articles. Descriptive and informative words are the most useful thing that I learn from the class. I don’t know how to write academic papers before I took this class. I used casual words on my every academic paper. After taking this class, I think I am ready for writing academic papers in my rest of years in OSU.

In my opinion, I think plagiarism is a harsh rule. It is not supposed to be an acceptable thing in any other countries. I couldn’t totally understand why people try to cheat on it, but I strong agree with Bedden‘s points that she made in her article, “Cheating across culture”. Culture affect people‘s thoughts and behaviors. For example, copyright is not a serve rule in China but you will get trouble if you are in America. Just like Stanley Fish mentions in his article, you have to fellow the rule that the communities made for you.

Blog assignment # 6 - Junghyun Hong

 When it comes to Korean writing, most difficult parts are the word spacing and grammar. Unlike English or other western language, Korean uses a word and postpositional word together as one word in writing. This makes many exceptions and confusion when we write in Korean. Also, Korean has very complex grammar and a lot of exceptions in grammar like English. The grammar of English is one of reasons which make me hard to write correctly. English grammar is totally different with Korean grammar. While, in Korean grammar, we use verb in the end of sentence, English use verb after subject and object in the end. This makes Korean need to use their mind reversely when they try to write in English. I think the best way to improve English writing is to try as much as we can. Also, we need to get proofreading by native people. When we find our grammar or vocabulary mistakes, we need to memorize it and try not to revise it again.

 In the Korean university, there are just few cases which are punished by university as plagiarism. Korean professors and students are likely to revise other words exactly as an expression of their respect. Therefore, if university finds same words or sentences with other book or article in their students’ writing, they don’t punish them usually. Students would be punished when they copy the whole part of other’s writing. However, in USA, it looks like that own words and voice in someone’s writing are considered as an important part of writing. For example, universities severely punish their students who revise other’s word even one sentence. I think someone who is living and studying in other country should follow their rule and culture, so, they should try to write in their own words and any other’s words with quotation marks or proper citation.

blog 6

It is very important in this world to learn a second language in order to have a communication with people for different country. Now a day English speaker has increased to a great extent, it has become one of the common language that is used when people travel to other country. My native language is Hindi. There are two main difference in Hindi and English, Firstly, in English we write Subject-Verb-Object while in Hindi we the words comes out with Subject-Object-Verb. Secondly in Hindi the Preposition comes after the noun. Moreover, Indian accent vary greatly as compared to American accents because in India they teach British English.

Plagiarism is one of the most important topic which is going these days in American university. Plagiarism has a lot many numbers of rules like citing the author, use of quotes, etc. This problem is occurred because of the cultural difference in education across the world. For example, In my country people used to copy lab journal and would get good grade. They have a concept of plagiarism in my country but the rules are not strictly followed. In India there is no rule that you need to cite the author when you are taking the ideas from someone’s article. Due to this habit of coping someone’s work or not citing the author while taking the central idea of his article a lot of students land in academic misconduct. In the article “Cheating across Culture” the author Timothy said that international student has a peer pressure of maintaining their GPA in order to maintain their visa.