Kiet Nguyen

As the world around us is growing rapidly everyday, we are easily overwhelmed by tons of new information. We rarely have the chance to think how digital technologies affect the way we gather the information and whether we are using it correctly. In the article “ Something Borrowed” by Malcolm Gladwell, he asserts that it is okay to use old ideas as long as the new work is transformative, and in the article The Plagiarist’s Tale” by Lizzie Widdicombe, she argues that copying is a creating process and continuous borrowing is a kind of art. Both the authors agree that borrowing is deemed to be acceptable as long as they are not entirely copying old work. It is true that everyone can have there own definition of plagiarism, and I believe that nothing

Almost every student has been there: staring at his/her computer trying to get an assignment done when they have twenty other obligations swinging over his/her head. Students are trying to find the fastest and easiest way to get the assignment completed. Many students will plagiarize intentionally or unintentionally at some point of their educational career. Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work or ideas then calling that work their own. There is no acknowledgement being given to the original author. In Trip Gabriel’s “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age,” the internet has created new challenges for students being able to give credit to ideas and information. Often, Students do not understand that information on

Discussion Board—Discuss how you might use each rhetorical element to persuade your audience to believe how you do. Use specific examples. Then, respond to at least two peers. Give them at least two additional examples to add to their

What do you think of technology nowadays? Can you imagine a day when technology and internet disappears? I would answer no because I grew up using technology and it has provided many sorts of entertainment and educational help. Now, I can’t imagine how things will turn out if they disappear, especially for education because I’ve grown up relying on technology for school work and I believe this applies to almost everybody living in this generation. In Trip Gabriel’s article “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”, he claims that digital technology makes plagiarism and cheating much easy. The internet contains much information that is free and easy to access for many students. In his article, Trip Gabriel interviewed professionals or educators as well as students of various Universities in U.S. to prove his claims. By comparing examples from Trip Gabriel’s article and David A. Tomar’s writing on ghostwriting business to my own ethnographic study on younger generations perceptions of technology on

Turnitin classified the top 100 most popular web sites that matched existing content in the Turnitin databases over a period of ten months (June 2010 to March 2011). The categories are as follows: Social Networking and Content Sharing This category encompasses sites that rely on user-generated content rather than professionally published content. The sites include social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, content sharing sites such as Scribd and SlideShare and Question & Answer sites such as Yahoo Answers and Answers.com. Homework and Academic The

The audience has made up their mind on David?s presentation in the initial 7-10 seconds in front of the high school staff (Bretag, Crossman and Bordia 2009, p. 195). After five minutes of David?s presentation; he noticed that most of the audience was looking bored on his sales pitch. What turned out badly with David's presentation is that he did not have a clear structure in his speech with appropriate signposts and transitions to keep his audience on track (Laws 2000, p. 67). He did not interact, and a lack of rapport with his audience. David forgets that he also communicate without speaking (Bretag et.al., 2009, p. 204). David was not able to convey his approaches through his body language, and non-verbal communication such

Your Subject matter is presented at an appropriate level of understanding for the audience and is supported

Stranded in the pacific ocean in complete darkness and no certainty of success, my father, Danh Nguyen, was only at the beginning of the journey to freedom. After the Vietnam War, the repression of Southern Vietnamese people began. Being a young boy from south Vietnam, my father decided that he wanted to leave Vietnam for a place where he could obtain a better life for himself. Even through all the obstacles that were thrown at him and at his many attempts to escape to a better life, he persevered through all his trials and failures. Without a doubt, my father is the most remarkable and influential person I have ever met in my life because of his resilience and determination in times of all his hardships.

There are many similarities and differences between informative and persuasive speeches. Informative speeches inform the readers or audience about whatever the speaker/author is speaking about. Persuasive speeches are trying to persuade someone do something to help whatever that that person has going on. They both share the same features. Informative speeches are not that difficult.

Plagiarism is using someone else’s work, words, production, researches and ideas without the approval or the acknowledgment of the writer or producer, and claiming the credit for himself. Many reasons and factors are attributed for the use of plagiarism and could be cultural, historical, linguistic, environmental and educational background. Plagiarism is a form of an academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, and a digital cheating. It is declared to be an unacceptable legal act and institutional regulations. And universities, schools, and instructors do not only need to decrease plagiarism, but they must also affect positively on students writings, increase the understanding of how to use digital technology to facilitate their academic writing.

However, the time has crippled my speech because there is so much information to point out. I should have used only the simple information to introduce to the class. For example, I could talked about the psychiatrist who identify the disorder or the person who named the disorder. The organization of the speech is good with the main points of types of schizophrenia, symptom, and treatments. In my opinion, my ideas were not developed thoroughly, because I wanted to show that victims who has schizophrenia suffer to the point that they will consider choosing suicide over a long life of constant torture. Sadly, it is hard to talk about it when the speech is timed. My strongest points was when I transitioned from the different types of schizophrenia to the symptoms of schizophrenia. While, my weak transitions was the history to the different types and the symptoms to the

These students aren 't the only ones who have opted out of conventional research and turned to online paper banks, amid the "cut and paste plagiarism" trend at universities nationwide.

According to my understanding, I would like to say, “Internet has improved the efficiency of teaching to find any thing or to read it but on other side, Internet has generated an outburst for plagiarism”(Groark et al, 2001). For example if we look at the survey held in 2001 conducted by McCabe it clearly states that 41% undergraduate students conceded that they had “cut and paste” in their work for more than one or two occurrences.

The possibilities of enhancing concepts sourced from secondary research, further’s the level of intelligence that people have access to. This is brilliant networking. Plagiarism, however has come to be a large problem for students and their instructors alike.

Academic learning in today’s changing world brings demands to future professionals. Whether in a traditional classroom, or through distance learning, one thing is similar and which cannot bring forth a successful educational future. One thing that can damage anyone’s academic future is plagiarism. Whether being the future of a straight “A” student, or a student who is just getting by. The fact remains that anyone can fall victim to plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of other writer’s words without acknowledging the source and taking those words and passing them off as one’s own ideas (Jones, 2001). Some people may think plagiarism is just copying someone else’s work but in reality plagiarism is much serious and hold very serious