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.