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Date Posted: 12:31:38 09/11/04 Sat
Author: Claudia
Subject: Re: Task 1
In reply to: Fernanda 's message, "Re: Task 1" on 16:03:30 09/06/04 Mon

>Plagiarism
>
> When you use ideas or words from someone else
>without citing the source of the information, you are
>plagiarizing. There are many kinds of plagiarism,
>illegals or institutionalized. Some students
>plagiarize the work of some authors without knowing
>they are doing it. Let us(us ?) show some examples.
> If you paraphrase a passage from a book just
>changing some words and do not give the credit to the
>real author, you can be punished. Some people
>paraphrase texts, mention the source, but forget to
>put the quotation marks when they are quoting. It is a
>very serious problem, because the quotation marks must
>be around the words quoted, no matter if you are
>already citing the source of this information in your
>writing. Your work will be considered a plagiarism if
>you forget the inverted commas, and in this case, it
>is a(an) illegal one.
> Another generally unknown kind of plagiarism is
>to copy things from the internet. You need to follow
>the same rules to printed sources in the web. It is
>necessary to cite the source whenever you are using an
>information from a WWW site. This is true even when
>you are using visual information. Copying words,
>graphics or any other from the WWW without permission
>is another case of illegal plagiarism.
> After knowing these things, we can see the
>importance (to take/pay attention to everything we write in
>order to do a good work(./otherwise plagiarism can ruin our
>writings.

Fernanda, I just think that you could extend your final paragraph a little bit more.

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  • Re: Task 1 -- Claudia, 12:34:50 09/11/04 Sat
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