Monday, September 17, 2012

How our group members organize this presentation


               How our group members organize this presentation  
       Last Tuesday, group 8 consists of Mohamed, Yifu Chen and Yang did a presentation about plagiarism. We divided the topic into 3 main parts, introduction, definition and the example. We introduce the topic to students respectively.
       Firstly, our three members came up with our own ideas about plagiarism. Then, we thought of the process of this presentation.
       Mohamed introduced what was the plagiarism to readers. Basically, plagiarism like someone copy another’s words or ideas without paying credit.
       Yifu Chen did four different definitions of the plagiarism from Wikipedia and http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html. He listed two definitions on the blog that he showed to readers last Tuesday.
       Mohamed raised his case that a famous journalist Fareed Zakaria of CNN used another author's work without using as reference searched from website. He thought this is an typical example of plagiarism in the united states. He got this case from the New York Times website. “A scandal Threatens Zakaria's Image as a Media Star" from the New York Times written by CHRISTINE HAUGNEY, August, 19, 2012.
       Yang Qu found a typical case of plagiarism in China that happened recently. A associate professor at Tongi University who resigned from his position after plagiarizing a test given to his student from a test given at another college.
Yang Qu thought some people in china don't care about plagiarism because the laws in China don’t enforce it as much as it is in the United States. Also, he thought another reasons for these people who do not care about plagiarism is that they got low education level, so they have no awareness of plagiarism. Among the students in China, they pay much attention to plagiarism.
He also did research about plagiarism in US College. The goal of college education is to teach students how to produce original thoughts and analyze ideas. Plagiarism adds nothing new and does not show that the student has learned nothing.
       Yifu Chen and Mohamed found some ways to teach readers how to avoid plagiarism. They also chose two specific ideas that listed on blog. Through these two ideas, they hope to help readers out of plagiarism.
        The goal of this presentation did by our three people was to teach readers how to avoid plagiarism and told readers what plagiarism look like in other countries. In some developing countries, people living in there probably have no awareness about plagiarism or properties, so the probabilities of plagiarism case happened in those countries is more than that in some developed countries. In some developed countries, people will get a big fine if they did plagiarism. On the contrary, people will get slight punishment if they did plagiarism.
       Overall, our group members found different sources and ideas from websites. We still put forward our own ideas about plagiarism.
       Here is the list of reference

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