Test Prep Blog #2 : Plagiarism

     After reading Ms.Galang's post on plagiarism, I've come to conclude that plagiarism is not right! It's a crime and no one has the right to steal somebody else's work and say that it's their own and not citing the websites/books that we're used. The student's work that was posted by Ms.Galang could fix a lot of things in the writing. There are also many ways to avoid plagiarism. 

    The student that plagiarized from A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings could fix the paragraph that was stolen by citing the sources. One way is in-text citing which is after summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting the source that was used and then including the author's last name and page number in parenthesis. The other way the student could fix the plagiarized paragraph is by having a "Works Cited Page". On a separate page all you do is list the sources. This is also known as MLA format. 

     The three easy ways to avoid plagiarism is by summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting. Summarizing is simply reading the source and putting it in your own words. Paraphrasing is summarizing each sentence and changing words around a bit which I find very fun to do. Now my favorite one is quoting which is taking the source it self and copying and pasting it into your writing but you must make sure that you cite where you got the words from and put them in quotation marks (""). 


     Write a sentence using the original source correctly; use a quotation or paraphrase. Also, make sure to cite correctly : 


Original Sentence: Whether or not this religious inspiration is true, it is known that the piece is not the only Starry Sky painting that Van Gogh ever created.

Quoting : "Whether or not this religious inspiration is true, it is known that the piece is not the only Starry Sky painting that Van Gogh ever created." ("A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings.")