Week 12 Assignment

Part 1 – Ratings

1)     G – It appears that the citations are being used correctly but are taken a little out of context.  The writer’s use of the source is not used in the same tone of what the source takes.  The writer uses the source to support his idea but is not reading or sharing the material as the source writer intended.

2)     H – Citation appears to be correct.  While there are no direct quotes in the paragraph, the writer correctly cites the source by name and page number as well as the correct “works cited” at the end of the writing.

3)     B – The writer paraphrases the same basic ideas but does not cite in text at all.  The writer only provides the source citation at the end.

4)      A – no citation throughout nor at the end

5)     F – distorted view.  Writer attempts to use the source’s text but changing the meaning slightly distorting and affecting the integrity of the original source’s meaning.

Part 2 – Reflection on Plagiarism

            I have run into the question and received previous instruction about self-plagiarism.  I’ve understood that you need to follow the same guidelines as citing other authors or works.  However, I had not thought of it in the sense of copyright laws.  That makes complete sense as the publisher then owns that publication.  I can understand the difficulty one may have having done the research, written the paper, submitted the work to be published and yet the research continues.  I can understand that the author is going to develop additional data to present and contribute to additional writings.  However, the writing needs to follow the same guidelines even if it will be added to another volume of the journal by the same publisher.  Doing so allows the reader to follow the research.  I’ve seen it recently in my research on restless leg syndrome.  One author has been in the field of sleep study for a long time and, while he has written and published articles relating to the source, he still cited himself in the following articles.  I believe that what gets “muddy” is that the belief is when failing to cite one’s self, you aren’t stealing from another author.  This goes back to my first comment about copyright.