Sorry..

[Rozzie]

I "bust" college students for the same offense all the time. Not all of them learn the first time either.

It takes some people longer to learn what is okay and what is not okay when it comes to using other peoples' material. I know an awful lot of adults who have not learned the lesson yet. The Internet is full of examples of this.

Learning this lesson now, while young, will help prevent you much misery later. (For example, in most college classes, it can earn you an F for the whole course. In some colleges it can get a permanent notation placed on your transcript. At many schools, it can mean expulsion from the school, with a permanent note on your transcript about the reason for the expulsion. In a job, it can mean you get fired. It can also mean you get sued.)

I have a suggest that I'd like to make.

In the future, if you want help understanding if something that you want to post is plagiarism or not, feel free to contact me by private message. I'll send you an email address and we'll work on what is acceptable and what is not. However, you have to be ready to take what I call constructive criticism and not be defensive if we do this.

I'm very busy during the school year and won't be on BYC every day (sometimes just a couple of days a week) so you'll have to practice patience, too since I am very busy this time of year.

 

[Robo]

To quote is fine if you give the source, but not paraphrasing and claiming it as yours. I would like to say that I agree with everyone 100%.

 

[ranchhand]

Rozzie,

Is this properly done? I am not sure, but I did try to give credit where it was due. (I'm better at math,

)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5589687#p5589687

 

[JJMR794]

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HOW INTERESTING

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I'm not Rozzie, but it looks fine to me. That's how I do it, or I'll say "taken from 'xyz' at w-w-w.whoknowswhere./com" then post the info. As long as there is some way to find the 'original' source you should be okay.

 

[Rozzie]

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Technically, no. You haven't plagiarized. You have placed it in quotes and have acknowledged your source. (I wouldn't accept it from a student because I want them to do their own writing, but that is not the case here, of course).

The real problem is that you can't legally repost copyrighted information. (Reposting is considered the same as publishing.) A short quote is usually okay. A lengthy quote or a full article is not. You are best if you summarize / paraphrase the content in your own words, and provide the web link as the source of your information.

Some government documents are not copyrighted. Others are copyrighted. It depends on the contracts with the authors and how the authors were paid. The same may be true of an extension service document.

Generally, you are better off to just summarize and link.