Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Sourcing Material

Everyday, most of the students in the world are struggling in finding information as much as possible in order to complete their tasks or assignments. There are various source of materials such as through internet, magazines, journals and others. But rather of these sources, most of the students nowadays are using internet as the main source to find information that they need. It is same with my condition, every time i need to finish off my assignments i will use the internet as my source in order to find all the information that are needed.

 Even though there's a lot of sources in the internet which are not credible for the students to find an information, but sometimes they actually can find the good articles or reliable information s from the e-journals or group discussion forum on the internet. in my opinion, by picking up the information from the e-journals, we can state the facts about the information that are related to my assignments. we know that in journals, there are include of author which are responsible for communicate their ideas through the journals. If the  articles have the author, that is means the information in that article are credible.

Sometimes whenever we need to find the articles that we need, we have to purchase which means that we need to pay in order to get it. But before we are paying off to get the article we actually have to investigate about the author. As for me, before i am purchasing some article, i will find out about the author first and then i will read all the information in that article or the description about those articles. If there is a lot of non-reliable information in the article i will not purchase it or else i will find the other articles. So, one of the way to know the articles is good or not we must see whether there is included of author or not. if those author are familiar in writing the journal before, we can purchase it. In a nutshell, I  think that it is more safer for us as a students to find the information through the e-journal or group discussion  rather than other sources.

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

How to avoid plagiarism?

Nowadays, we recently heard many issue about plagiarism among students in school or even in university. Everyday, most of students will take an alternative way in order to complete a task or an assignment that have been given to them by doing plagiarism. They might think that when they are copying information from the sources that they have found, all the task that they have to do is complete. but, actually they do not realize that they have already create a trouble for themselves. this is because, whenever they are caught for doing plagiarism, they might need to redo their assignment or else they do not get any marks from their lecture.

By regarding to this problem, all the people especially students should become aware on how to avoid plagiarism during their study especially for the students at university. we have known that half of the total marks for their result are depend on the assessment which included of the mark from their assignment.

So, we as a students should know how to find a proper solution in order to avoid plagiarism such as do not copy and paste information straight away from the source on internet. apart from that, always paraphrase the information from the source and do not forget to put in text citation. we also can avoid plagiarism by avoiding ourselves from reading our classmate's paper for inspiration. this is because by keeping look to others work, we might tend for copying their task in order to complete ours.