David Oh

Blog 11-12

While I was writing several papers, most difficult thing was expressing me thoughts. Sometimes, the ideas suddenly pop up in my mind but I had to give up because it is too hard to write. Therefore, I used “Corpus Concordance Sampler” at that time, but usually I could not find the sentences that I want.

Most important issue that I think is the objective standard of plagiarism. In Haley’s case, it was obviously her fault and only issue was the seriousness of the punishment. However, in Marita or Jamal’s case, it is hard to judge if those were plagiarism or not. Therefore, people’s opinions could be different base on for how much they think it is plagiarism.

Plagiarism is the most critical matter in academic affair. Actually I did not realize importance of it in the school. I didn’t receive appropriate educations about academic misconduct in my all education courses. In my experiences, there are many students who plagiarize other students’ homework and even exam. Since there are no proper educations about plagiarism, the only thing to prevent plagiarism is to depend on students’ own conscience and punishment. It is hard to accuse a student who plagiarized the others’ because he or she is a classmate. I saw many plagiarized work or plagiarizing in my education courses; however, they did not punished because they did not detected. Even their plagiarized works were discovered, they receive light punishment such as warning or resubmission. In my opinion, the most students think it is unfair, but there is nothing to prevent plagiarism for them.
The most important issue in regard to plagiarism is to prevent plagiarism. My first education in OSU is learning about the importance of academic misconduct. In addition, in my 106 course, all subjects which we write about are the plagiarism and the way to prevent plagiarism. I think it is very useful for me and also proper education about plagiarism. I also think all of education institute have to adopt these education courses for new students because new students must know what plagiarism is. I think it is very important to students to prevent plagiarism and fair competition.
The types of difficulties I have in writing are lack of knowledge about vocabularies and paraphrasing. These are connected each other. Because I don’t know many useful vocabularies, I have a difficulty to paraphrase some paragraphs from a source to my paper. If I did not learn about plagiarism in this 106 course, I think I will encounter many critical problems about plagiarism like Marita’s case.

David Oh
Blog 10

In Hongik University, where I was in Korea, they usually did not treat students very harsh with plagiarism. Therefore, students copied other’s paper or internet sources. However, some professors began to catch the plagiarism. At first, many students caught for the plagiarism, because copying the assignment was habituation to them. Because it was the first time, professors just worn them.
Some students stop plagiarizing, but others did not. They were caught again, and because it was the second time, they got fail in that class. Most of the students stopped cheating on their paper. There were no more students punished as a plagiarist. However, few month later, one student was caught from the cheating during the exam, and checking his past faults, the examiner(or instructor….I’m not sure…) find out that he was caught for the plagiarism twice and did similar things, plagiarism, several times after than. It is not sure what was punishment, but in rumor, he was dismissed from school.

I had not used in-text and reference list when I wrote papers in my country. They did not consider it as severe mistakes. However, throughout this class, what I was doing was wrong and can be considered as plgiarism, even though I did not do it on purpose. When I was at college in Korea, one of my friend was punished for plagiarism. He copied whole papers on a website without any change. The professor caught his plgiarism and he got an "F" grade for that class; but he was not expelled from the school. In korea, they do not teach about plagiarism much and there are no specific rules for that. The punishment for plagiarism depends on professor's rules. Most of professors give students who plgiarize an "F" grade.

For me, the meaning of issue was not clear. First time, I had thought it was that can be answered by "yes" or "no" or "agree" or "disagree". I am not still sure, but I guess it is something that we can talk and dicuss about. Another difficulty was make my essay from general to specific. At the every first of paragraph, topic sentences are required. I am kind of confusing that when we say topic sentences in the first, that can be too specific to start.

The most improtant issue for plagiarism is how the punishments can be applied to each different situations. It is no specific standard of punishment and hard to give proper ones. However, how severe action was can be distinguish by it was intentional or unintentional and habitual or unhabitual.

Not knowing what the plagiarism is, I think I have plagiarized several times since I entered the elementary school. When I was attending middle school in my country, Republic of Korea, I was given some assignments during a summer break. The assignment was about writting a summary and my opinions after I finish reading a book. At that time I did not have enough time to read a entire of book because I was procrastinating with my given homework; therefore I copied some summary, which was posted on the internet, and I changed those words as my own words without any citation. Fortunately, I did not caught by a plagiarism and I could graduate my middle school.
The most difficalty I confronted with my analysis paper was using others thought into my essay for surrporting my own idea. First of all, I should comprehend what kind of issue that other people are talking about with the same topic that I have. Then I should praphrased those words to my essay to fit right to my essay with smooth flowing. I think this part is the most difficult to me.
I think the most important issue in regard to plagiarism is the fact that people have knowlege about how to do the citation and parapharase correctly on thier work or not. Because people could be accused for the plagiarism with good motivation of using other's words.

I have been experienced about plagiarism. Two years ago, one of my friends did plagiarism but he did not know what thing is his wrong. He just wanted to quote good sentence for his papers. He was not Native American either like me. He has one of habit that when he finds good sentence, he frequently writes in notes. However, teacher was angry about his paper. In other hand, he just came here two months ago, he could not communication to American people includes teacher. So their misunderstanding went against as time goes on. Problem paper's the most difficult thing is about issue because it difficult to build up. It should be not general things, too detail and relate to thesis. Actually, the hardest thing is making a thesis sentence. It contains many sorts of things that it should express about topic. I think the most important issue is education for plagiarism. In my opinion, our life always has many things for learning. For example, we can learn smile at children's. Like this, we are steadily learning. If we educated students about plagiarism, they would not plagiarize any more. All students need to educate about plagiarism before writing their papers.

The act of plagiarism is to copy more or less some one's else's ideas, thoughts, opinion and creations and introduces them as his own. I was studying in 12 grade, i had an experience of observing such kind of plagiarism. One of my classmates was accused of plagiarism by one general histry teacher. We were told to write an article on "oppression of British Government to farmers for blue plantation. My classmate was inattentive to her studies. At the end of the last moment, she went to a senior student and picked up her last year's assignment on the same topic. She added a large portion of that assignment to her writing and submitted to her teacher. The teacher could catch her act of plagiarism and expelled her for that semister.
A man is not perfect and knowledgeable in all respects. As a human being i have some limetations. In writing the latest problem analysis essay, i had not enough experience and enough instance before me. To find out the reasons of plagiarizing were little bit difficult for me. I had another problem what way and how i observe the situation.
To my opinion, the important issue in regard to plagiarism to figure out the assignment is really the student's creations or some one else's.

Atal Nauhria
Blog 10 - 12
1.30 - 2.18

Plagiarism is common these days, in the universities and schools. Students do not the definition of plagiarism and they plagiarize unintentionally without knowing the result. Students, these days, procrastinate for their work, which forced them to use the outside resources such as Internet. From this class, I have learned lot about plagiarism and I feel like that I can give a lecture on the plagiarism to the students. Moreover, we experienced the cases of Haley, Marita and Jamal about how they plagiarize and what kind of punishment will be appropriate for all these three cases. In my life, I have seen one student who caught under plagiarism for copying the whole project from one of her friend. It was confidential, so I do not know what kind of punishment she faced or been excused.

Our second writing is problem essay analysis, which is very interesting. In this problem, we have to write two issues and a thesis statement following the main idea of the essay. You have write two issues about the plagiarism through the cases of Haley, Marita and Jamal. The only problem that I faced so far is the flow of the essay because I have everything that requires in the essay but unable to put in the right flow. I believe that it will be okay if I practiced more.

There are several reasons for the plagiarism and it is easy to plagiarize if you are lagging in knowledge. Therefore, in my opinion, the most important issue in regard to the plagiarism will be the student's knowledge. For example, Marita does not have the knowledge of her paper, which forced her to plagiarize. Therefore, universities and school should conduct some programs on the plagiarism for successful life of students in the academic studies.

Blogs #10-12 (200 words)

For these 3 Blogs, I'd like you to answer the following three questions:
1) What has you experience of plagiarism been? Have you ever known anyone who was caught for plagiarism as Haley, Marita and Jamal were? How were they punished?
2) What types of difficulties have you had in writing this latest problem analysis paper?
3) What do you think is the most important issue in regard to plagiarism?

Thursday's class will be in the Stillman Hall Computer Lab. Please bring an electronic draft of your paper for editing.