Personal Reaction: Chapter seventeen is all about how to avoid
plagiarism as well as how to incorporate the information from your sources into
your essay. I found this chapter to be very straightforward and easy to
understand, with ideas and topics that I have seen over and over again. One
thing that was new to me was the topic synthesizing, a word that I have never
heard of before reading the chapter.
Professional Reaction: There are three ways to use a sources
information in your own personal writing: paraphrasing, summarizing and
quotation; each of which only includes the information from the source not the
writers personal impute. Paraphrasing and summarizing are putting the
information into your own words while quotation uses exact language. When you
either paraphrase, summarize or quote information, a good way to introduce the
information is with an identifying phrase. This identifying phrase can go
either before, after or in the middle of the sentence. Synthesizing is a major
topic in the chapter, which can easily be defined as the combination of paraphrases,
summaries and quotes. When you synthesize, you use material from the source
along with your own ideas. There are two types of plagiarism, intentional and
unintentional. To avoid plagiarism, make sure that you identify the source,
place borrowed words in quotation marks, use your own wording and distinguish
between your own ideas and the ideas from the source.
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