Pharaphrase Without Plagiarising

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Hye everyone! How are you? I am going to share on what I had learn in the ELC last Thursday. This entry is about how to write a paraphrase correctly without plagiarize it. What is the meaning of paraphrase?According to Plotnick J (n.d.), paraphrase is to restate someone else ideas in our own words at roughly the same level of detail. In my understanding, paraphrase is we change the words or that sentences into something new but must be the same meaning from the author's idea.

Look at the picture above. What can you conclude regarding from the picture above? Okay, what can I conclude that, as a student we can't just simply copy all the internet sources to complete our assignments. This is because, as we learn before plagiarism is an act which steal's other people work without their consent. Thus, it is important to learn how to paraphrase any articles that we read in the internet because the content or the ideas is belong to the author.

There are three methods of paraphrasing such as grammar help method, retelling method and chunking method. Grammar help method is the simplest way to paraphrase by changing grammar and vocabulary to form a new sentence. It is important to maintain the original sentence. The second method is retelling method is another way to paraphrase. From my reading, the retelling method is we try to explain the meaning of the text by our own words and for the last method is known as chunking method which is often used when there is a longer paragraph. Chunk the original text into manageable pieces and explaining the meaning of each chunk using your own words.

Therefore,  paraphrasing  citing is important as we mentioning the authors and giving credit to them. Besides that, paraphrase allows you to decide which part of the source is most important to use and indirectly avoid plagiarism among the students. That's all and see yaa for the next entry!

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Assalamuaikum, (kalau tak jawab dosa, kalau jawab sayang) heeee :) :)

Okay, ahlan wasahlan, hello, hye, annyeong-haseyo, everybodyyyyy! Hehe :)

Now I'm still in the mood of mid-term break. So how's your holiday? Is it fun? I bet all of you really happy on your holiday, right?? I am going to write the entry even though there is no class for today. Actually, I don't even know what the topic that I want to share about. By this mid-term break, my family and I spent time together by doing some fun activities with them. Furthermore, I love to eat my mom's cooking and my father often bring us to restaurant or mamak whenever he feel hungry. When it comes to delicious dish, it is trulyyy happiness for me, Yayyyy!! BUT, in fact i am getting fact. tsk tsk tsk :(

I think that's all for this entry. Sorry, I don't have any ideas to story about, just random post for today! Oh yes, for next week post, I am going to write about APA style format. Thank you for reading!

Good Night !

 

WWW resources for the Assignment

Morning everyone! This is the quick update in the class regarding on the topic Sourcing Material. Today, I learned about how to find source material for our assignment? Basically, student used to find academic sources by searching the internet. Nowadays, internet sources can be found easily through the smartphone anytime or anywhere when we want to. But the question is, is it the sources have the credibility and can be useful as our reference in our assignment? Basically, there are three important factors that must be look before we start on our academic writing which are validity, reliability and for the last one is credibility. So all of these factors might help you to guide on writing assignment. For example, when I am doing my assignment, I will looking for information from different sources and make sure that the sources have its own copyright. 

The other factor is the URL address such as .edu (education) which is an academic website that really helps the student to access a lot of information. Besides that, the content of  sources must be suitable for the audience and do not contain any biased or prejudice statements. There are several less reliable sources such as blogs, discussion forums, social network (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram) and Yahoo Answer. For the reliable sources, we can find the journal which is provided to student and it is very easy to download it. Especially for UITM's student they can find the journal from database online that required them to log in to the system. After that, they are easy to access the journal  based on their particular topic. Therefore, it is depend on the student to find good sources for their academic writing.

Before I close up this entry,  I just wanna say, it's a MID-TERM break yoo!!! And of course,  Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha to all my friends especially my coursemate EDU2603A/3B. Happy holiday guyssssssss and take care yourself :)