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Hold on, that is not the same thing "rephrasing, synthesizing and summarising your source material" (your words) is not plagiarism and is an important skill and
by cycomanic 4y ago
Hold on, that is not the same thing "rephrasing, synthesizing and summarising your source material" (your words) is not plagiarism and is an important skill and if the source is appropriately given is not plagiarism. Still you are correct plagiarism education is often very bad.
- Jensson 4y agoSentence manipulations can be performed without understanding anything of the material. The end result is the same thing as plagiarism, and isn't an important skill at all except if you try to get credit for work that wasn't yours. Many just spends their entire education getting better and better at transforming sentences and learns a lot of word/sentences equivalencies to take that even further, these are the people who can talk "intelligently" about coding problems without being able to code. Basically human form of GPT3.
- lmm 4y agoIf you try to rephrase something you don't understand you will eventually drop a massive clanger that any teacher who actually reads your work will notice. Once you get into enough detail, the easiest way to pretend to understand the material is to actually understand it.
- cycomanic 4y agoIt was saying "rephrasing, synthesizing and summarising your source material", which is very different than just sentence manipulation. In order to synthesize and summarize you need to understand the material. To use a coding equivalent, to refactor code you have to understand it. Refactoring is not the same as rearranging some functions and moving some arguments around.