Week 3

                                            LEARNING REFLECTION JOURNAL 

    I learned a very important thing about plagiarism, with the web pages that the teacher provides us, I read them and I understood better about what plagiarism is about. We as students sometimes plagiarism without noticing it because sometimes or most of the times we did not know that this is. The reading I read in some web pages was similar, all them saying, "plagiarism is taking the credit for the ideas of someone else", so I understood that the original ideas of people are important because they are produced with time and effort of them. I read that there are many ways of plagiarism such as: rewriting the same words of someone else without using quotation marks, or when we do not cite the resource we took the information from, another way of plagiarism is paraphrising an idea changing it to our own words making easier to understand for the readers but without  mentioning the main page where we took the information. As we could see, there are some forms of plagiarizing, but we can also avoid plagiarism as for example using quotation marks when we mention a complete idea of an author mentioning his name, citing our information resources, when we paraphrise we should not take the complete information of others and just turn it into our own words because the idea of paraphrasing is taking the point of an idea and to develop it using our criteria, and an important thing we should not forget is when we quotate an idea it should not be more than 40 words. A big help is using the APA style to avoid plagiarism, just following its simple concepts and rules for we to create our original ideas in a writing. I lerned all this by researching information on the internet and I think it will be applied in the scholar tasks and in some other fields to avoid plagiarism. Finally, as I did not understand everything about the differences between each kind of topic inside plagiarism I will leave some URLs that helped me a lot to understand it in a better way.

http://www.wallacestate.edu/fileadmin/user_upload/WallaceState/documents/success/apabrochure.pdf

This one is one of a doubt I had about if paraphrasing is plagiarism: http://daria-przybyla.suite101.com/is-paraphrasing-plagiarism-a93600

http://www.uis.edu/academicintegrity/students/plagiarism.html 

This URL has a good exercise to notice when plagiarism is in a context making easier for us to understand it with examples: https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/example1paraphrasing.html