blog 7 zhipeng zhu

The question “In a peer discussion group, you were asked to discuss your paper before you started writing it. One of the members of your group gave you an interesting idea. Do you need to cite the idea in your paper just as you would cite a quotation from a paper?” is the one of queation i interested. I have been confused about it for long time. When we disscuss with others, there always new idea come up in our mind, and the new one would lead to another new one. i believe this part of idea can be the most valuable one. When we use it, how can we do to avoid the suspicion of plagiarism. that question give me the answer. Those idea can be use in our paper, for safety wec can cite personal communication on it.

Another interesting question is:"In your 108 course, you are asked to write a research paper. You are new in the field, and much of what you know is from textbooks. This information is called common knowledge, and you don't know if you are supposed to cite it."we are fresh men, so we might face this problem in real world. in fact in china those knowledge be use in any place withour citing, because it's common knowledge, it's just in the book, teacher know where it's, so we don't matk it. but in here, that would be plagiarism, because it has copyright.if i don't do this question, i might be assumed plagiarizing.