Blog #3 Plagiarism Tutorial

 A tutorial question #4 is that during the group discussion writing down peer's idea in my paper without citing a quotation would be plagiarism. I would just write down my friend's idea because we are in a group and the idea can be shared. Therefore there is no matter to write down the other's idea without citation during the group discussion. A question # 7 is summarizing a passage of a new research, " New research shows that brain scans of suckling moms are indistinguishable from those of virgin rats on cocaine, supporting the idea that nature rewards mothers for nurturing their pups. The work also sets the stage to better understand the mother-child bond in humans. When given the choices, rats with babies under 8 days will choose suckling their pups over cocaine." My summary would be as following: It is hard to tell the baby rat's brain pattern difference between moms' and virgin rats' on cocaine when they suckles; in addition to that there are more chance to suckle their baby rats than the cocain one. There were three different summaries. The one was most similar to the original word expressions. Another was less similar and the other was most general. My opinion about the shown anwser is most close to the first or second anwser.

I've never think that peer's idea in a group discussion can be related to plagiarism in # 4 question. Whenever getting ideas from a member of a group I just didn't cite a quotation or just wrote one's name before the idea because at least I can show my respect to other's idea. However, I've never learnt or heard about exact way to cite one's spoken idea in a group because it can be a result of the mixed opinion and normally each member's name is not cited whenever a member presents group's idea. Just as the tutorial's answer now I realized that I should check and be cautious before write them down that whether the idea was already written in a paper or on the blackboard. Also for #7 question I thought summarzing a passage would be just enough if it's shorter than the original one and it includes all information on it. However, the most correct anwser was the most general one, which contains just the main idea or points of the author. In that way I can escape plagiarism even it doesn't contain specific words or contents. More to that I think question #7 is more important example of plagiarism. If I've not learnt summarizing skills, then I could be in a trouble of plagiarism; because as an undergraduate student I read a lot of researches. Therefore the way of summarizing can influence my presentation or any reports. And I would feel bad about summarizing too much close to my original idea in my career. Even if someone trying to refer my research with citation, the original way of expression that I want it to be original can be distorted because it is a result of study. The general main idea would be better to escape plagiarism whenever I refer or someone else does. In the end, I still feel uncomfortable about citing in a group discussion. I recognize it is unique, but what is the clear rule not to be plagiarism in a group discussion.