- After after spending time with Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz and familiarizing myself with Ede’s method for deciding when to quote, paraphrase, or summarize, what I learned and implemented is that citing sources is very important. What I did in my researched based argument is I started to cite my sources. The reason I did this is because the readers or audience of my writing will know where I got my information from. This can also give them a sense of authenticity by showing them that I got the correct sources.
- Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz define academic integrity as feeling proper citation is an ethical issue, rather than a strictly academic one. They found that academic integrity is to give credit to the author when using the source. The correct citation is not just an academic issue. It will not be noticed by other people, but it will be passed on to another person. Plagiarism is a serious problem and is affecting the way our future doctors, engineers, and workers think. What you have do is to praise writers and whatever source of information you get as much as possible because plagiarism is hard to avoid, and you might not even notice it.
ENG 2100: Writing 1 with Jay Thompson
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