Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Importance of giving credit
It is so easy to remember something someone has said and repeat it without stating where the information came from, just as I'm sure we've all said "you know the saying goes..." without saying whose saying it is, but the people who have stated these things first need to be recognized. Imagine you finish writing this paper for this term and it becomes published. Now how would you feel if somebody else took your ideas for their own and they in turn were given the recognition for that which you have done? Let's go a step further, suppose your work resulted in an important discovery through somebody else presenting it as their own. How would you feel to know that you were the one that first thought of the idea, but were never given any credit for it? This is why it is important to cite the sources for the information we use in our wrting. Even if it neve ramounts to any great discovery, taking something that does not belong to you is stealing and I think we can all agree stealing is wrong. This holds true for the words we use, as well.
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