Reading chapter 7 really helped me understand the whole Citation and giving credit procedure. I have never before this class had to do any of this. This is really new to me.I am still rusty and tring to understand it all. I didn’t even have to worry about if i copied someones words from a book, or text or site. Even in high school, i was never asked to be careful of plagiarizing, it was never even mentioned. How times have changed. But this is College, whole different ball game. In this chapter i learned a whole lot. I enjoyed the part about “take ownership of your ideas” I loved the analogy he used, about the quarter from the hand to the ear. That was a good one. I like how they talk about writing is not tidy, its a mess and its all mashed up. He says, your ideas come from reading and thinking about ideas given to you by other people. But, then why is it stealing if you use their words. that made me think. but still, we have to give credit where credit is due.

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