Information Literacy (Lab)

November 23, 2017

KNOWLEDGE is POWER

          For me, if you have a wide range of thinking because of your stuck knowledge, then you have the power to solve any problems with it and you can defend yourself to any challenges in everyday life. Having the power of knowledge means being responsible with that knowledge (power) and knows how to use it properly to solve problems.

“There are times when you need to share information that you have acquired from various sources written by different authors. It is inevitable to directly quote their words in order to preserve their meaning. However, quoting someone else's words without giving credit to the author essentially gives an impression that you are claiming ownership of the words they have said. This is called plagiarism.”

 

 

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For me, it is important to give credit to the source of one's work. (1) Giving credit gives the readers or the audience of your work an awareness that you base your work with truthful and rightful information, facts, etc. from which came to your source. (2)To avoid plagiarism. (3) Crediting the source can be your way of giving a thank you to the source and can be a sign of respect. (4) It is also very important crediting sources because you do not pay them through bills or cash, but by crediting them, you are aldready paying them, thus, encouraging your audience to check the work of your sources. (5) If you have a case where you made a mistake in your work, you can easily know which source made it wrong and prove that the blame should not be on you (unless it is clearly from an unreliable source).