Journal #6

Kate: Good afternoon, professor.

Professor Beckham: Good afternoon, Kate. Please, sit down. I have some important things to tell you.

Kate: OK! What’s happen?

Professor Beckham: Your essay has some problems. Are these your own ideas?

Kate: No at all. Some sentence I found it on internet.

Professor Beckham: That’s the problem. Your plagiarism by copying others peoples sentences right into your essay. But you didn’t write down where you get it. That’s cheating. It is illegal, so I didn’t give any score to your essay.

Kate: What? I didn’t know that before. I’m sorry about that.

Professor Beckham: I think I can give you one chance to rewrite your paper. But remember that, write your own opinion and sentence. Don’t plagiarism others twice!!

Kate: Thanks a lot. I will work harder on my essay. Thank you for giving me a chance to correct my mistake.

Professor Beckham：I don’t want to affect your motivation, so I hope you can do your best. Don’t let me be disappointed.

Kate: Thank you, professor. Bye!

Professor Beckham: Bye!

Journal #5

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is the copying of sentences or words of other writers to use in their own article. If you want to quote other writer’s sentences and words you must use quotation marked and references. Now, many universities copied the article, there are inadvertent plagiarism, there are deliberate plagiarism, and some even copied the writer's thinking. Plagiarism is a very serious problem in the United States. It may even affect your learning career, and the future. So, I think student plagiarism is so dangerous. We must know how to correct cite other people’s word and idea.