Sourcing Material

Well, today's topic is about how to locate the sources while do a writing assignment. Doing a writing assignment are not difficult as you think because we still refer the ideas from others writer and we can find information from different resources. there are three level of information which are single-fact information that includes specific factual information, general information that offers an overall perspective on a particular topic and last but not least in-depth information that gives a detailed account on a topic/

So how to locating sources?

This is the list of information sources and where and how we can find them

INTERNET

Before take the information from the internet, we must take a caution so that the information that we take is reliable. Here are some reliable sources that we can obtain from the Internet.

• e-Journals
• search engines
• group discussion forums
• online database journals

PERIODICALS

Periodical contain the published writings of people who want to share their new found knowledge or thought or ideas result from systematic research. For instance:

• Journals
• Specialised magazines
• Newspapers and magazines

THESES AND DISSERTATION

This collection can be found in our university library

BOOKS

Make sure that you are being careful when evaluating the source so that the source are credible, reliable and relevant to be used :)

Avoiding Plagiarism

What is plagiarism? Well, plagiarism is the act of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. In university or college, we can see that most of the students tend to do plagiarism to finish to their assignment. If you realize, actually we practise the act of plagiarism since we are in the middle school, but nobody tell us that it is wrong even our own teacher ask us to copy the work from somewhere such as internet to complete our homework.

It is easy to find the information for most research but there is a caution needs before you add the information into your project paper. To make sure that your work is free from plagiarism, if you find the research that fit with your project paper and you want to use the information, first you need to paraphrase the words. Read it and put it in your own word. Make sure you did not copy more than two words in one sentence. The other way to avoid plagiarism is by using citation. The citation is really simple and it is one of the most effective ways to avoid the plagiarism.

In my point of view, nowadays student wants to get higher grade but they do it in the wrong ways. The quality of the works is not that important as long as they can finish their work.