Overall this week’s
readings and tutorials served more as a reminder of the rules and expectation
of academic integrity. Being a college students for several years now, I have
repeatedly read and been told about plagiarism and cheating. I have always
tried to improve my referencing skills in order to make sure I never fall into
the unfortunate error of plagiarizing. I also feel that by doing your own work
and referencing others, it makes your work much more professional. The one new
thing I learned this week was that it is allowed to use past work for a new
course if both instructors agree. I had always thought that it was unacceptable
no matter what.
This
week also provided me with two new and resourceful tools. I enjoy finding new
search databases because it expands the amount of results and sources I can
find and provides me with more information and supportive evidence for future
papers.
Hey Lupe!!
ReplyDeleteSo funny that we both ended up at Brandman after AVID. I hope school is going well for you and every thing else. But anyways, I felt the same way after reading all of the tutorials and readings on plagiarism. I actually thought the opposite though. I thought that you were always allowed to use your old essays and work in future classes, but then I read that both instructors have to agree to it. I thought that was so interesting! Doing your own work is sometimes difficult to come up with the right words to say, and how to word them; but it is without-a-doubt more rewarding in the end and you do sound more professional as a writer.
Whitney Danielson