Monday, March 1, 2010

Week 21: Annotation, Paraphrasing, Plagarism

Assignment: (Evidence) create a new google doc, name it "paraphrasing research", here is a SAMPLE
Steps to complete assignment:
  1. open your diigo library, find articles that you have bookmarked, or find a new source article for your research topic to work with
  2. annotate the article online using diigo
  3. from your diigo library copy and paste at least three important annotations into your google doc
  4. put quotes around the content that you have annotated(since you did not create it)
  5. after each quote, paraphrase: restate the important ideas in your own words for each quote
Mini-lesson: We have been using Diigo to annotate the webpages that we are using as our sources for this research project.
Vocabulary as we have defined it:

Annotation: choosing bits and pieces, important parts of articles, key ideas about our topic, and highlighting them to refer to later.

Paraphrase: the process of restating in your own words, the key ideas in what we have annotated. We learned that we cannot simply change a few words or rearrange some words, we have to understand the ideas and write then in our own words or it will be plagiarism.

Plagiarism: to copy someone else's work with out permission, knowledge, or giving them credit for it. This is illegal, considered cheating or stealing.

We have to "cite" our sources. This means giving them credit and getting permission to use thieir work. this is one reason that we use Creative commons, Creativecommons.org .

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