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I don't know how your university classes were taught, but in the liberal arts courses I took that would have been a huge no-no. Citations aren't just for direct

I don't know how your university classes were taught, but in the liberal arts courses I took that would have been a huge no-no. Citations aren't just for direct quotations, they're for any and all ideas. Which means that pretty much any factual claim you make needs a citation, any third party interpretations require a citation, and if your essay is just a laundry list of citations, you failed to actually write an essay.

robocat 4y ago
This page by a New Zealand university summarises my point: https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/paraphrasing-techniques.php https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/paraphrasing-technique... *Restate and reorder* Use these sentence starters to repackage the sentence Change the order of the sentence A thesaurus is a useful tool here *Paraphrasing step by step* This step by step process can be used to put the ideas of other authors into your own words. 1. Write down or paste a photocopy of the passage. 2. List some key ideas, concepts, and phrases from the passage. 3. Where possible, note down alternative phrases or synonyms for each of these. 4. Rewrite, using those alternative words and phrases. 5. Can you simplify further? 6. Insert the name of the author. I have seen the above be enforced by “anti-plagiarism” tools for undergrad essays. Students are well taught to copy and remix statements, albeit with a reference. However the original statement by an author or authors would often better be copied verbatim. The implied morals that are taught for creative rewriting (for its own sake) are subconsciously learnt by students. Rewriting to improve can be worthwhile. Forced rewriting teaches strange outcomes. My suspicion is that the plagiariser from the article went through the university process and has learnt some of their behaviour from that process.
- johnday 4y ago
  That's not plagiarism, that's (cited) paraphrasing. In this case, the author of the original work is explicitly named. It's literally step one in the link that you just posted. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own, original, work. The two are fundamentally different. Confusion between them is the essence of the problem at hand.
  - thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
    The whole point that the person you're replying to is making is that the paraphrasing is similar in morality to plagiarism.
    - johnday 4y ago
      The person I'm replying to dropped in "albeit with a reference" as if that's not the critical point. If the author referred to in the original article had cited the plagiarism website, there would be no issue here whatsoever. It's the misrepresentation of others' ideas and rhetoric as one's own (paraphrased or otherwise) that's the problem here.
- Calavar 4y ago
  That's horrendous. I am surprised that a university would advise their students to do that. What exactly do they think is the intellectual value of rearranging words and substituting synonyms? Calling that synthesis and summation is like pushing bricks around in a circle and calling it construction.

robocat 4y ago

This page by a New Zealand university summarises my point: https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/paraphrasing-techniques.php https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/paraphrasing-technique... *Restate and reorder* Use these sentence starters to repackage the sentence Change the order of the sentence A thesaurus is a useful tool here *Paraphrasing step by step* This step by step process can be used to put the ideas of other authors into your own words. 1. Write down or paste a photocopy of the passage. 2. List some key ideas, concepts, and phrases from the passage. 3. Where possible, note down alternative phrases or synonyms for each of these. 4. Rewrite, using those alternative words and phrases. 5. Can you simplify further? 6. Insert the name of the author. I have seen the above be enforced by “anti-plagiarism” tools for undergrad essays. Students are well taught to copy and remix statements, albeit with a reference. However the original statement by an author or authors would often better be copied verbatim. The implied morals that are taught for creative rewriting (for its own sake) are subconsciously learnt by students. Rewriting to improve can be worthwhile. Forced rewriting teaches strange outcomes. My suspicion is that the plagiariser from the article went through the university process and has learnt some of their behaviour from that process.

johnday 4y ago
That's not plagiarism, that's (cited) paraphrasing. In this case, the author of the original work is explicitly named. It's literally step one in the link that you just posted. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own, original, work. The two are fundamentally different. Confusion between them is the essence of the problem at hand.
- thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
  The whole point that the person you're replying to is making is that the paraphrasing is similar in morality to plagiarism.
  - johnday 4y ago
    The person I'm replying to dropped in "albeit with a reference" as if that's not the critical point. If the author referred to in the original article had cited the plagiarism website, there would be no issue here whatsoever. It's the misrepresentation of others' ideas and rhetoric as one's own (paraphrased or otherwise) that's the problem here.
Calavar 4y ago
That's horrendous. I am surprised that a university would advise their students to do that. What exactly do they think is the intellectual value of rearranging words and substituting synonyms? Calling that synthesis and summation is like pushing bricks around in a circle and calling it construction.