Guided Response: Reply to at least two of your classmates who explored a different scenario than that which you examined. Will the advice they provided be helpful in the future for the individual in the scenario? What might your classmates add to their advice to make it even more helpful? What additional resources could the individuals in the scenarios be directed to for help?
1. The advice I would give Kelly about paraphrasing is that she still has to give credit to the original author of the article that she is using for her paper so that she would have gotten the credit for the source and the idea of the source. I would also tell her that it is important to always give credit to the source that she is using for her next paper because she can get into a lot of trouble for not citing the author of the article. I would try and help her fix the problem with this paper but not sure if it would help but by showing her where she messed up so she does not make the same mistake again in the future with other papers for school. I think it is important to help her not make the same mistakes in the future but it is really going to be up to her if she takes my advice for the next assignment she has for class. I would want to help her as much as I could to do the right thing and help her to paraphrase and give the credit properly for the next time.
2. The video didn't really suprise me. I kind of already understood the severity of plagiarism and it consequences but what got me was how easy it is to do without noticing right away. Thinking back now I see I have had some plagiarism in my work by using words or pieces of sentences
I've found in others work that sounded better than ones I've come up with and did not give credit where it was due.
Kelly
Taking others work and using it as your own even if it is just a sentece or a few words is stealing. Stealing is wrong in any shape, form, or fashion. If you are going to use something from another persons work you absolutely have to cite where you got it from otherwise you are stealing. After writing the information you are going to use you need to put the authors name and where you got the information from in parenthesis.
Ryan
In a way, Ryan kind of has a point. There really isn't to many ways to write the difinition that wouldn't be copying it in some way. I think Ryan could have quoted the difinition and used his own words on what he thought "semantics" meant. In this situation quoting the difinition and citing the source is really the only way I see that he could avoid plagiarism.