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Week 4 Questions
- Blog posts and press releases are considered poor sources of reliable information. Why?
- Both blog posts and press releases are deemed poor sources of reliable information for the following reasons. One, blog posts are usually run by an individual or a small group that have biased writing tendencies. In other words, they upload articles written through their lenses of perception. A biased article can have several different effects on the reader. One of these effects include leading the reader to have the same misinformed view as the writer. Second, articles written by blog posts and press releases are usually written, submitted, and posted quickly. Therefore, there is not much editing or fact-checking involved in the writing process. Without these vital components the article's ethos is greatly diminished.
- What are some reasons you might not want to use a company's website as the main source of information about that company?
- A company's website should not be used as the primary source of information about that company because if the website goes down, then the website that is being cited serves no convenient purpose.
- What is the difference between a copyright violation and plagiarism?
- Plagiarism and copyright violation are both examples of theft. However, they are distinctively different. Plagiarism is stealing someone else's work, passing it off as one's own, and paying no attribution to the original author. Copyright violation, on the other hand, involves violating certain rights the copyright holds without obtaining the copyright's permission. Copyright violations include reproducing, distributing, or displaying another's work.
- What are some good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism?
- Good techniques that can help avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism is reading extensively and having a rich vocabulary. The more one reads, the better understanding they will gain, thus granting them the ability to convey the information from their memory by formulating their own words rather than having to refer back to the source of information they got it from. In addition, having a rich vocabulary allows a writer to make their work stand out as opposed to a mundane and basic vocabulary.