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.
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