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.