Thursday 2 October 2008

Plagiarism and Paraphrasing


We have been learning about plagiarism and the steps you need to follow for a successful paraphrase.

In order to paraphrase you also need to research efficiently and not only will you learn how to avoid plagiarism, but you’ll also pick up some good research tips too.

The following tutorial will help you get some useful tips for you to paraphrase successfully. Hope you enjoy it!

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello I did use it and I think it helps you a lot to understand the concept of plagarizing. With this game you can difference plagarizing with paraphrasing. The game also tought me some things about plagarizing and paraphrasing.The game also tought me things about general knowledge wich I didnt know. It is a very good game and I enjoyed very much.

Marcos

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
The game was good, althought it was a little bit long. But it was really colourful and with animations! I played with Maiko. This game helps you a lot to understand and make some activities of plagiarism. there is a big difference between them. We should all use paraphrasing, right?! But I think I still need some help with all these! tell me if I am right...
plagiarism is to copy and paste from a page, and put some quotation marks around it( but why the quotation marks!?)
paraphrasing is to read a text from a page in Internet, close it and write what you understood from the text in your own words. ( Is that right?)
well, Miss Ale, I think I have to understand a little bit more about this, but all these words are new for me and I am just learning their meanings!
can we have some free time tomorrow??!!! jaja, becuase if you continue teaching like half of the class is going to miss it!!! jeje
Kiki

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale: i think it is a very useful game because we learn I had use but I already no all because you already teach as all these but another person who was absent or if it is not from school they can play this game and learn what is plagiarism and paraphrasing. I did had fun playing this game but as I already told someone can learn playing this game. And Ale PLEASE continue adding this type of game because you can raise your mark only playing this game, it doesn t that we are going to stop participatin in class and then post comment in this games, so dont worry, at least me I dont going t that. This last part of the year I will try to behave and work hard.

bye

Facu G

Anonymous said...

Hello Miss Ale

I really liked the game. It had really good animations. I think this game is good because if someone didnt really understand what plagirism or paraphrase is you can just play the game and you will be able to understand a lot better. I played with Emma. I really didnt have time to play it all but until the part i played it i really enjoyed it. It is a helpful game because you learn and play at the same time. The questions that asked you things about paraphrase or plagirism i got them all correct. In some i really didnt know what to put at first but i concentrated well, i thought what you explained to us and i got them all well. It is a really interesting, entertaining, colourful and very but very creative game. Before you had also put these type of games but with a different thing of language. I hope youy keep putting these posts because they can help everybody to learn what they dont understand. I hope that the kids that went to choir read this post when they come back so they can catch up and learn a little what we have been doing in class these days that they left.
SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!!

Lucia V

Miss Ale said...

Dear all,
Goo to read that you enjoyed the game. I know that paraphrasing is not an easy task and it requires a lot of practice. Your new project will help you to exercise it.
Go for more! See you!

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
I really loved this game !
It is great, very creative and fun to play. I really liked it because we are all learning and having fun at the same time. I really think we all should play this tipe of games because we are learning at the same time we play and spend owr time learning. I learned a lot!
Spetially about the meaning of QUOTATING, PARAPHRAZING AND PLAGARIZING. Althogh we had learned that in class it is great to have a game that will help us if we need somehelp with it and that also will help us clear up owr ideas. It will be very usefull for everyone the proyect we have to do on heroes and leaders. Talking about that I have to investigate about Helen Keller, I really think she is a great hero!
I also liked the start of the game, because it said why playing this was important and what would you learn and how many time would you spend on it. Very few things and games have that and I think that is really usefull for you also to understand about the game.
The images were also very fun and showwing. The page was great, how did you find the game??
I had arrived from Mar del Plata, I had a really great time there.

See you,

Shany M

Anonymous said...

Dear Miss Ale: I LOVED THIS GAME!!!
I really enjoyed it very much!!!!!
I think that this game is VER VERY important for us and especially now because we can practice our paraphrasing while we are doing this very interesting project on Heroes and Leaders. I think that this game was kind of long, but it was worth it, and with animations it made it very fun and interesting!!!
I htink that this is a very important activity that we should all do because it help us understandt the most important thing that we should know when we pass on to middle shool. I really think that the game said very importat facts about all that we are learninig and puting in practice when doing this project. I do think that it would be a great idea for a game that takes several minutes, to have animation and music, but well, although it was kind of long, I was really enjoying it and learning more interesting things when playing this game.
MISS ALE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR INCLUDING THIS INTERESTING GAME!!!!
SEE YOU SOON...
CAMI W

Anonymous said...

Ale.It was a very long game, you made a big effort, I imagine you did not make paraphrasing on that game jaja. It was very good, I liked you to let us to choose our character. I keep thinking it takes time to paraphrase and its a bit complicated but when it is done its much better because you now the text very well and you feel like that you have done it very also. I really liked it a lot and I enjoyed it very much!
bye Miss Ale I have to go to bed its VERY VERY LATE!
Santi B

Anonymous said...

Hello Ale I think this game helps you a lot about paraphrazing and plagarizing. At the beging I didnt understand it but then I could work with it. It was a very difficult game.

Ramiro T

Anonymous said...

Hi there!
I learnt a lot of things with this game. Some things I already knew them and didn´t understand the whole concept, some I knew them and some I didn´t know. I had a few mistakes, but it is good as I posted in my last comment because I learn´t from them. This will help me do my work on heroes better. Today if I have time I will get into google docs and put a little bit more of information.
See you,
Barbie M

Anonymous said...

Ale: I loved this game!
It makes you understand better all the things we talked in class!
It makes it much more clearer!
And is very fun too! I would love, you putting some more games of the theme we are studying. Some similar games!
Thank you,
Agus.T!!

Anonymous said...

Hi miss ale,!
This game is great, you can have quick ideas of how to recognize a plagerized ot a paraphrased text its great to take a difference on both so that when you paraphrase you learn how to difference the tet and the others point of view, when you paraphrase yours and the readers idea come straightly to yor mind, its an easy and simple, and interesting way of having fun while you are reading!
Maia.M

Anonymous said...

hello mis ale
I think it is mych better to paraphrase because you learn much more and you understand what you are writting but if you just copy and paste there is no sence of puting it if you don't know what it about. The game helped me alot and I enjoyed it too.

Edward

Anonymous said...

Good game Ale, It makes your Job. Which is good, in a way, I chose the first guy. The game tought me synonims of Paraphrase, and it refreshed me HOW to do it. See you soon.
Andrés Posbeyikian

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale when I saw this post althpugh I had already posted and idea came to my mind I knew that people, scientists and adults in some way paraphrase their ideas with their own ways, such as when we sty¿udy that we think with our own words and point of view towards to what we think, not just by memorizinig everything and not learning anything, when we paraphrase we plot our ideas onto a whole new tex and make it grow with words that atract the reader and make him a¿want to read more. It is a perspective from other that conects the whole text into their own way of understanding it!

See You,

Maia.M

Anonymous said...

i really never tok in account the plagarizing although now that now it sounds kind of illegal jaja, and paraphrasing helps a lot to understand the text cause you have to re- read it and to re-write it (in your own words)tomas.s

Anonymous said...

I think that it is very important to know about plagiarism and that it helps us to get better grades at school or university or for work maybe. I think that it was a very good way to teach children what plagiarism is because it is also fun. thanks
tizian

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale...
I chose Ema as my player, luckily she past with an A+ in the essay. This tutorial thought us the importance of Paraphrasing and how to avoid Plagiarism. This tutorial is going to help us with our project of Heroes, and it is going to help us in Middle school, Secondary and University. I also noticed why we need to start looking for the information with a lot of time, because Paraphrasing takes a lot of time but it is better.
See you on Tuesday,
Valerie P.
PS: YOU ARE NOT LOOSING ME!

Anonymous said...

miss ale the game is very intresting but it is a little bit confusing, the cartoons are very funny and it is long and compplicated.
maximo B

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
I think that paraphrasin helps you for all your life like now in the heroes preject. Also when you paraphrase you learned much more becaus when you paraphrase you take out of a text what you know abou it and if you dont know nothing you could not do the work.
I have learn 2 new words and I am very anxiously to learned to much more
Felipe Ba 6B

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
The game was very good good go on putting those games.


Felipe Ba 6B

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:

Very good the game I enjoyed a lot and go on putting those games that are fun and enyoment.

Felipe Ba 6B

Anonymous said...

I used the game to paraphrse and to plagaraize and it help me a lot, i learned many new things now, and it will help me in all my life. Martin T

Anonymous said...

Miss ale:
this tips were very useful. I really understand it clearer. It is a very good tool for learning. Its good to learn about this subject because in a future if we didnt know what plagarizing was it was going to be much difficult to learn it. I loved doing this investigation and learning about this subject.
well
see you,,
pili.m.

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
This was very fun and large. What make it fun was that it had a little game to play and some paragraphs that I didn't know things and I learnt many things. I would like that if there was more questions in the game I would practice more and I would also learn from my mistakes. But that is not very important please put more exercises and things that we read to learn in a funny way. I am going to be honest I learn much more from the log than from class because it is fun but here in the blog it is much more fun. There wasn't alot information about summarising. OH and this is a good thing that we are learning because we express our self in our words and that is how we understand more things in our words.
INes G.

Anonymous said...

ale: I enjoyed t very much maybe to another people more than what to me. I really enjoyed it because you can learn how to pharaphrase because it didnt enter to my brain really how to pharaphrase. You should put more things like this becuase they help us to make better in language and in life. Really you should make it a little shorter because in one tiny part I got a little bored but it was a fun and a good learning exercise or game or slideshowwaht so ever. It is not an easy thing to do (pharaphrasing) but i will try to make my best and work very hard. It also thought about the difernences about plagirzm and pharaphrasing. well I have to go but it was a really good game and I liked it a lot.
PUT MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BYE BYE
VICENTE.MF

Anonymous said...

Miss ALe,
I enjoyed this video a lot, and learnt a lot of new things from it, I had a lot of doubts, that now I know them. Also I like learning new things, specially, by a fun thing as this video is!!!! In some occasions were we had to guss, with the knodlege we knew, I got them right , but one I got it wrong!!!!!
To conclude, now I know a lot more about paraphraphasing, and what not to do , to have everything good!!!
PANCHA>T