Source Material

As i know about source material from Free Dictionary website, it can be defined as publication from which information is obtained or a document from which information is obtained.

There are many ways to find some sources in internet.The first primary ways is using search engine such as Google and Yahoo which when users enter the keyword or some term,the search engine will find the located of the information and source on the related website. This ways should easy to use for users find their needed.

The second ways is take information in student portal such as UiTM library. Users can access free information and choice of knowledge based on internet.

Users can access the information with enter the keyword. Keyword use to find information in search engine and at student portal. This means that,users can highlight some of terms in research so search engine can provide with relevant information.

So,source material can access by search engine and student portal.

Types of Plagiarism

Now,we will continue about plagiarism topic.

In ELC class this week, we are learned about types of plagiarism happen among students life. Actually,this plagiarism happen in student life consciously or not. They take easy ways to complete their assignment without hardworking. They want highest marks in assignment than their friends.

There are types of plagiarism in student life.

1) Total copying

This action are full copying the whole text such as essay without credit to the original's writer. They not change any single words and copying actually words.They claim this work are their work totally. This action are extremely plagiarism and illegal.

2) Major copying

This action are copying one paragraph or one part of text such as article or essay to their work. This action are really happen in student life and not change of word. Their think this action are not illegal.

3) Substituting words

This action are copying the text without changes original structure of text. They only change the words by substitution word with other word and phrases.

4) Patching copying

This is most plagiarism happen among student. Student copying from several text and essay and combine with another text from another source without credit to original's writer. No changes in copying text.

Plagiarism

What i know at page http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism .The plagiarism is the act in copying or using and closely the language and words of author without getting permission or authorization in presentation of author's work as own without getting credit to original author. Copyright laws protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.

Let we see the example of plagiarism.

Original source (text)

Alvin Kernan, The Playwright as Magician. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. pp. 102–103.

From time to time this submerged or latent theater in becomes almost overt. It is close to the surface in Hamlet’s pretense of madness, the “antic disposition” he puts on to protect himself and prevent his antagonists from plucking out the heart of his mystery. It is even closer to the surface when Hamlet enters his mother’s room and holds up, side by side, the pictures of the two kings, Old Hamlet and Claudius, and proceeds to describe for her the true nature of the choice she has made, presenting truth by means of a show. Similarly, when he leaps into the open grave at Ophelia’s funeral, ranting in high heroic terms, he is acting out for Laertes, and perhaps for himself as well, the folly of excessive, melodramatic expressions of grief.

Verbatim plagiarism, or unacknowledged direct quotation (lifted passages are underlined)

Almost all of Shakespeare’s Hamlet can be understood as a play about acting and the theater. For example, there is Hamlet’s pretense of madness, the “antic disposition” that he puts on to protect himself and prevent his antagonists from plucking out the heart of his mystery. When Hamlet enters his mother’s room, he holds up, side by side, the pictures of the two kings, Old Hamlet and Claudius, and proceeds to describe for her the true nature of the choice she has made, presenting truth by means of a show. Similarly, when he leaps into the open grave at Ophelia’s funeral, ranting in high heroic terms, he is acting out for Laertes, and perhaps for himself as well, the folly of excessive, melodramatic expressions of grief.

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