Hi everyone!!!! Fighting2!! ^^
I want to share something that is important to us as a student about paraphrasing. Paraphrasing means taking another person's idea and restating it using our own words. For me, paraphrasing can be tricky because we need to make sure that we should not copy the original author's style or wording. Even if we have a citation, such borrowing would be considered plagiarism. Besides that, paraphrase should sound like you, using vocabulary and sentence structures that your reader would recognize as your work.
To make sure we are not plagiarizing unintentionally, think about and jot down the source's main points. Besides that, write our paraphrase without looking at the original. Then, when you have finished, try to compare your paraphrase with the original which is :
*Have you simply changed a few words to synonyms?
Try again. Being handy with a thesaurus is not enough to make the sentence yours.
*Have you included exact sequences of words from the original?
If so, make sure to put quotation marks around those phrases, or re-write until the entire paraphrase is your words.
*Have you retained the meaning of the original?
Changing the author's meaning is not plagiarism, but academic honesty requires you to represent other's work accurately in your writing.
As we know, paraphrasing are considered acceptable and legitimate, it should fulfill three condition which is your paraphrase must have the same meaning as the original, you should use your own words and you should cite the original.
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Believe or Not ????
Hi, guys!!fighting2!!^^
Today, I want to share with you about what I learned in ELC class..hmmm..believe or not everything that you read on the internet???
I'm partially believe..huhu..because i'm also not really sure what I get in the web..we must to make sure that what we get the web are valid, reliable and credible..
Of course we used many web site to search any information especially for university students. Make sure we need to get as much information as possible to support our writing task such as an assignment, report and so on. Then, we may start by looking for any information from different locating sources. As we know that, nowadays, many other ways available for students looking for information like internet.
So, how can we find them??????
Most of the people very familiar with using the Internet for communicating with our friends. For example, communicate using Facebook, skype, Twitter and so on. Besides that, we need to make sure that the information that we found on the internet is reliable to support our writing assignment.
Other than that, we can using e-journals, search engines and group discussion forums. Remember to document the details of every source such as the date publication, the URL of the website and the author of the article. Besides that, periodicals contain the published writings of people who want to share their ideas or knowledge such as journals, specialised magazines, and newspaper and magazines( Times, New Straits). Then, collections of theses and dissertations can be found in the library because they are higly reliable sources of research data. As we know that, the largest source of information is academic books which is can allows you to discover new ideas n new knowledge. We should to be careful when evaluate the sources which to make sure the sources are credible, reliable, relevant, useful and valid especially on the Internet.
Today, I want to share with you about what I learned in ELC class..hmmm..believe or not everything that you read on the internet???
I'm partially believe..huhu..because i'm also not really sure what I get in the web..we must to make sure that what we get the web are valid, reliable and credible..
Of course we used many web site to search any information especially for university students. Make sure we need to get as much information as possible to support our writing task such as an assignment, report and so on. Then, we may start by looking for any information from different locating sources. As we know that, nowadays, many other ways available for students looking for information like internet.
So, how can we find them??????
Most of the people very familiar with using the Internet for communicating with our friends. For example, communicate using Facebook, skype, Twitter and so on. Besides that, we need to make sure that the information that we found on the internet is reliable to support our writing assignment.
Other than that, we can using e-journals, search engines and group discussion forums. Remember to document the details of every source such as the date publication, the URL of the website and the author of the article. Besides that, periodicals contain the published writings of people who want to share their ideas or knowledge such as journals, specialised magazines, and newspaper and magazines( Times, New Straits). Then, collections of theses and dissertations can be found in the library because they are higly reliable sources of research data. As we know that, the largest source of information is academic books which is can allows you to discover new ideas n new knowledge. We should to be careful when evaluate the sources which to make sure the sources are credible, reliable, relevant, useful and valid especially on the Internet.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
About Plagiarism!
Hi, everyone! Fighting2!! ^^
What I learned last week in ELC class was plagiarism..I am really sure that this problem is popular among students..
What is plagiarism???hmmm..
Plagiarism is taking the work of another and presenting it as one's own. When a writer deliberately uses someone else's ideas and material without acknowledging its source it is considered as plagiarism..
Hmmm..
For example, doing some 'copy and paste', paraphrasing too closely, translating without any appropriate acknowledgement, buying papers or outsourcing, recycling your own paper, making collusion (group discussion, share ideas but write by our own), fabricating data and doctoring.
So.. What are the causes of plagiarism and the failure? Students may fear failure and they believe they have no choice but to plagiarise. Other than that, students may plan poorly for the time and effort in which they may not know how to integrate the ideas. Then, college instructors may assume that students have already learned how to do some research and learned the appropriate academic conventions of research.
#Students must believe that their research assignments are their opportunities for genuine, rigorous inquiry and learning.
#Faculty needs to design contexts and assignments for learning that may encourage students to not simply recycle information but to investigate and analyse its sources.
#Administrators need to foster a program or campus-wide climate.
For the best practices, we can explain plagiarism and develop clear policies. For example,we may talk about the underlying implications of plagiarism. Besides that, we can improve on the design and the sequence of assignments in which we can start building possible topics early or support each step of the research process. Then, we might attend ourselves to latest sources and the use of reading that considers conventions, focuses mainly on reading and showing them on how to evaluate their sources. Next, we have to work on plagiarism responsibly by using plagiarism detection services cautiously, especially for the assignments completed by university students. Moreover, we can take appropriate disciplinary actions in order to curb plagiarism.
What I learned last week in ELC class was plagiarism..I am really sure that this problem is popular among students..
What is plagiarism???hmmm..
Plagiarism is taking the work of another and presenting it as one's own. When a writer deliberately uses someone else's ideas and material without acknowledging its source it is considered as plagiarism..
Hmmm..
For example, doing some 'copy and paste', paraphrasing too closely, translating without any appropriate acknowledgement, buying papers or outsourcing, recycling your own paper, making collusion (group discussion, share ideas but write by our own), fabricating data and doctoring.
So.. What are the causes of plagiarism and the failure? Students may fear failure and they believe they have no choice but to plagiarise. Other than that, students may plan poorly for the time and effort in which they may not know how to integrate the ideas. Then, college instructors may assume that students have already learned how to do some research and learned the appropriate academic conventions of research.
#Students must believe that their research assignments are their opportunities for genuine, rigorous inquiry and learning.
#Faculty needs to design contexts and assignments for learning that may encourage students to not simply recycle information but to investigate and analyse its sources.
#Administrators need to foster a program or campus-wide climate.
For the best practices, we can explain plagiarism and develop clear policies. For example,we may talk about the underlying implications of plagiarism. Besides that, we can improve on the design and the sequence of assignments in which we can start building possible topics early or support each step of the research process. Then, we might attend ourselves to latest sources and the use of reading that considers conventions, focuses mainly on reading and showing them on how to evaluate their sources. Next, we have to work on plagiarism responsibly by using plagiarism detection services cautiously, especially for the assignments completed by university students. Moreover, we can take appropriate disciplinary actions in order to curb plagiarism.
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
The Bangles Eternal Flame (lyrics) fighting2!! ^^
This is my favorite song.. My best friend introduced this song to me..and I fell in love with it at the first sight..
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Roooss, Fighting2!! ^^
Hello, everyone! peace yaww.. :) This is the first time of me blogging. So, I don’t have any experience to blog before. That's why I would like to explore and want to try to write a blog. Thanks to the ELC lecturer for encouraging and asking me together with my other coursemates to create a special blog for this course. As it seems that I would be taking the academic writing subject in this semester, maybe that is the reason of why the lecturer asked us to create it, in order to sharpen up our skills in writing in English besides being able to improve on my English level. I hope it can helps me because I am quite weak to write in English. This is the purpose of why this blog exists. Hopefully I am able to accomplish and can achieve my objective to improve in my English level of proficiency. So, I’ll try to update my posts in English. What are we waiting for? Let’s do it! Fighting2!!^^
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