Chapter 7 is the most useful I’ve read so far from Why White Rice? I always had a problem with understanding the citation in any paper, because technically nothing is new, we learn everything we know. Even me saying this I feel like I am plagiarizing because Swanson said something similar to that in chapter seven so that means I still have to give him credit for that? This chapter did clear a lot of things for me about the whole citation and stealing people’s ideas. It makes perfect sense you have to give credit for the person who came up with that idea and so on. However, I still find it a little confusing understanding the section about “Give credit but take ownership”. Does anyone ever come up with a new idea? Because it even states in the chapter “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again: there is nothing new under the sun.”(Essl 1:9-11, New International Version). Therefore, nothing is new someone probably came up with your idea before so it’s not original. Than chapter seven talks about how something can be new, if you hear for example something and later on makes your light bull goes on, it gave you a new idea finally that’s new! Right? I think so, but do you still have to give credit for that person who helped you come up with that idea…. The part about the reasons for citing sources helped a lot with the understanding why we must always cite, it’s true it just makes your paper sound better, trusty, and more understandable. You’re not just putting your ideas or what YOU think about something but your backing it up with better sources and information.

Troy Swanson.” Mash It Up…Gracefully”. “Why White Rice? -Thinking Through Writing”. Kendall Hunt Pub. 2010. p.163-174. Print.