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.