Name: Sherwin Jay Manuel C.

Vasquez
Course: BSBA-HRDM
Subject: PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION

Module 5: Purposive Communication

Chapter 3: The Documented Essay on a Concept

Before-Reading
Questions:

      
To articulate
your perceptions about research papers, documented essays, and academic
writing in general, try the following exercises:

1.   
Write
one or two paragraphs, in any style you prefer, speculating about what it
would be like to go out on a date with someone who talks like an academic
paper. Describe both the experience and person: What would he or she talk
about? How would he or she talk? What place or places would you go to or
visit? What would you eat during that date? End by speculating about
whether or not this would be an enjoyable experience.

2.   
Then,
consider what you believe to be the characteristics of an academic paper in
light of the experience you just narrated.
Application Exercise:

1.   
  Look up the terms in the last sentence
to find out why these are offensive. Provide more appropriate alternatives
for these and list them in the table here.

 
Biased term
Why it is offensive

Bias-Free
Alternative

Jesus
killer

Lady president

Little old woman

Redneck

Retard

        
Before-Reading Questions:

1.What is your understanding of the term “plagiarism”? Try defining this in your own
words.

2.Look up the meaning of the Filipino word “katapatan.” Explain in English what this
word means.

What is Plagiarism?

Teresita Gimenez-Maceda

(1)  Every semester at the start of every

class, whether undergraduate or graduate, I emphasize one rule: DO NOT
PLAGIARISE. Then I go on to give a lecture on the “crime” of plagiarism.

(2)  Simply explained, is when you borrow

someone else’s words and make this appear as your own. But there are several
ways of plagiarizing as there are several ways of detecting the deed.

(3)  The first and most obvious kind of

plagiarism is when a person copies word-for-word a sentence, a paragraph, a
whole article, a section of a book, or different section of a long article or
book written by another author and does not enclose the copied words in
quotation marks. Even if the copier acknowledges in her/his bibliography the
source for the copied words, the lack of quotation marks within her/his own
writing constitutes plagiarism. “I forgot to put the quotation marks” is no
excuse.

(4)  The second kind of plagiarism is when a

person borrows someone else’s ideas, rewords them to make the ideas seem like
her/his own. This becomes apparent when there is no attribution to the original
author. This means the person borrowing did not mark the reworded ideas of
another writer with a footnote or an endnote to acknowledge from whom s/he
borrowed the idea/s. “I was in such a hurry that I forgot to put the footnote
or endnote,” is not an acceptable reason. We live in an era of information
technology. Putting in a footnote or an endnote has been made easier through
word processing software like Microsoft Word, Mac Pages, or Ubuntu and Linux
Open Office. It should be automatic for anyone to immediately insert the
footnote or endnote.

(5)  The third king of plagiarism is when a

person translates to Filipino or other Philippine Languages someone else’s
ideas that were expressed in English or other foreign languages and fails to
enclose the translated material in quotation marks. “But the Filipino words are
mine,” the translator might claim. But the question still is, whose idea/s did
the person translate?

(6)  Even when a person frames the ideas of a

writer in another way or in a different language, and conveniently forgets to
acknowledge the source of the idea/s, that still constitutes plagiarism.

(7)  There is nothing wrong borrowing an

author’s ideas. We encourage students to research the wealth of materials available
in books or the internet to expand their knowledge and help bolster their own
critical positions. We are often inspired by a writing style, a conceptual framework,
a powerful idea. We may even imitate the style or use the conceptual framework,
or build on the powerful idea of other writer

NOTE: ANSWER ONLY BEFORE READING QUESTIONS  AND APPLICATION EXERCISE.