Plagiarism to me is when someone uses
someone else’s work without giving them the credit. This could mean using a
paragraph without citing it or even a quick phrase. Another type of plagiarism
I learned about through the NPR article was that pictures and videos need to be
cited as well.
There are a few (new to me) ways people
plagiarize that I did not realize had a name until reading the guide on
plagiarism from Valdosta. The main one that stood out was metaphor plagiarism. “Metaphors are used either to
make an idea clearer or give the reader an analogy that touches the senses or
emotions better than a plain description of the object or process.”
(Barnbaum) The example from the Valdosta guide website was the use of “a
large swarm of extremely old stars.” (Barnbaum) This is a
way to give the reader something they can imagine to get the point across. It
is acceptable to use the phrase as long as it is cited.
In my years of school especially the
past few years with an increasing rate of research papers I have been taught
that if there is the slightest bit of doubt that we should cite the source.
Barnbaum, D. C. (n.d.). Plagiarism a student's guide to recognizing it and avoiding it. Retrieved from
http://ww2.valdosta.edu/~cbarnbau/personal/teaching_MISC/plagiarism.htm
SHEPARD, A. C. (2010).
When is it plagiarism?. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/05/20/127017266/cell-phones
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I agree with everything you have said about plagiarism. However it would be nice to know what other type of plagiarism that stands out to you. When I was doing my blog I also read that even if you were to cite the phrase that you wanted to use in your paper that it could still in fact be plagiarism. This is very tough stuff and everyone has to be careful even the people that don't mean to do it.
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I thought you explained the two articles well and clearly discussed the true definition of plagiarism. I also liked the way that you included an example of citing by actually citing the two sources that we had to read for our blog post. The only change that I would make would to include the different types of plagiarism and somewhat of a description of them as well.
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