These two articles were very
resourceful and can serve as a fallback reference for any questions I may have
in the future. Thankfully, my English teachers in high school were very
thorough in enforcing citing etiquette into tedium. I’ve been taught to put a
reference to a source’s citation in parenthesis after anything containing
information not from myself. I’m also familiar with the weaknesses, dangers,
and possible lack of integrity in paraphrasing and especially in creating
mosaics. Generally, I will cite my sources as I gather information from them.
This way, no matter if I decide not to use a source or decide to use one late
into a project, I will always have my laundry already done. I had previously
put the author’s name or something else easily identifiable in parenthesis
after a group of information that I used which a reader can use to find the
citation listed in the last page of a paper (myself). However, I think I might
start using superscript numbers1 as it seems like a cleaner approach.
I
was surprised that the articles did not emphasize professors’ ability to run papers
through plagiarism detection programs that search the web and then tell to what
percent and in what parts does a paper resemble other works. This can be problematic
of someone actually does say something in their own words very similar to
another work which they have never seen before. They could be accused without
any real intention or even negligence. I won’t worry too much about it though.
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