Response on Plagiarism (Break HW #2)

Plagiarizing could be and is a big thing. Taking other peoples' work and making it seem as if it is yours is not a good thing to do. There could be certain consequences. What the student did wrong was he/she copied and pasted the passage into his/her post which made it seem like his/her own work. In my opinion, its makes the student seem kind of lazy. What the student could have done to site the source correctly was to put the sentence/quote he/she wanted to use in quotations to show that someone else wrote that sentence. Then he/she could have sited the source at the end of the quote.

This is a way the student could have incorporated the text;
The stars in the night sky are surrounded by their own orb of light. In "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings", the author describes the painting as "a scene we can all relate to, and also one that most individuals feel comfortable and at ease with. This sky keeps the viewer's eyes moving about the painting, following the curves and creating a visual dot to dot with the stars. This movement keeps the onlooker involved in the painting while the other factors take hold."

There are plenty ways to avoid plagiarism. One way is to just put it in quotes and site the source! That is a very simple easy way. Another way is to summarize/paraphrase the work and put it into your own words. A third way is to just gather a bunch of information and put it together. I'm not saying take information from different sites by copying and pasting, but look all over the internet. Sometimes there is better info then the one you were planning to take! There are other ways to avoid plagiarism. It could be easy to get caught also because maybe the vocabulary used in the work is obviously not yours. These are some ways to avoid the consequences of getting accused by stealing someone else's work.