Rules for Writers..Chapter 51

This week I read chapter 51, which was about managing information and avoiding plagiarism. They were talking about being a good researcher, and a good record keeper. They talked about different ways of managing information, having a working bibliography, good source of materials, taking notes and not plagiarizing (which is stealing from your sources.) They talked about making a good bibliography, which should contain more sources than you will actually use in your work cited. When looking for web sources, for example sometimes all of the information will not be on the main home page, but you shouldn’t include any information that is not on it itself. A good way of keeping track of your source materials is photocopying them or printing them out. When taking notes you really need to make sure not to unintentionally plagiarize. A good tip for that is to resist not to look at the source as you take notes, except when you are quoting. They talked about summarizing without plagiarizing, which is like reducing a whole chapter to a short paragraph , or reducing a short paragraph to a single sentence., but writing it in your own words. Paraphrasing without plagiarizing they talked about. They talked about using quotation marks, which is a very good way to avoid plagiarism. Quotation is the EXACT same words form the source, even the punctuation and capitalization.
I really feel like this is a good chapter to focus on or read on your won because a lot of students don’t know how important it is not to plagiarize. I also think that when students do they sometimes do know that they are really doing it. After reading his chapter it actually really helped me. I thought the point they made about writing some sentences summarizing key points of the source will help you out with the bibliography and remembering information.