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.
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