Friday, November 12, 2010

Unit 4 blog post Plagiarism

         Based upon your reading on plagiarism, why do you think we need to cite our sources?  
1.       I think we need to cite our sources to give credit to the original thought or person who wrote it.I also think it is important to cite our sources so anyone ready your material can go to the source for more information if necessary.

         What would you do if someone used something you created without giving you credit?
2.       I would be upset if someone copied my work. I would confront the person and in certain situations where possible make them fix whatever they copied from me and make it their own.

         Consider some of the real-world plagiarism issues you have learned of that include professionals. How should those issues be handled?
3.       I believe that professional plagiarism should be handled with in reason for each incidence. For example a nurse who copies another nurses vitals from the day before should be punished by the supervisor and made to get her own vitals not only for the fact that they may be different today than yesterday and it could effect the patients life if they were innacurate, but also to show that vitals need to be done on a daily bases and not just copied from the day before.

         Does the Internet blur the lines of “legally owned”? Consider sites like YouTube and Wikipedia.
4.       Yes I believe that the internet blurs the lines of legally owned materiel. These internet cites show video and music which are created by other and not always do they have the credit for that person.

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