Blog 4 (Plagarism)

All I can really say is wow. I did not know about %75 of what plagiarism was and all the multiple forms that it has. I was very surprised that in my High School we did not have a plagiarism course for seniors that were going to attend college. That would have been very useful because as the article states almost everybody uses somebodies ideas. I am very happy that I read both articles because without them I would have most likely committed plagiarism in every single one of my papers because I would have not cited sources that i paraphrased from. I was also really happy to see that if a professor accuses you of plagiarism and you have notes and drafts to prove that you did not plagiarize then you can defend yourself and it is not automatically counted as plagiarism. I thought there were also numerous goo tips on how to avoid plagiarism in the second article. The main and overarching tip was to make sure that you site your sources.  I find that to be the most important because if your sources are not cited and you paraphrase just one persons specific sentence then you are committing plagiarism. In my opinion I feel the university should create a website that allows students to submit their papers and then the website would act as the professor and check for plagiarism in the paper. Therefore students will know before hand whether or not they missed a citation or if they just plainly plagiarized.