The highlight for our week's topic was about writing bibliographies. The purpose of such bibliographies is to give credits to those persons of whom we borrowed ideas and knowledge from. Our teacher made emphasis on the case of plagiarism, commonly among students, which involves stealing of someone else ideas and making it their own. Everybody should be aware of the possible consequences of this criminal assault!
Plagiarism is considered to be a mere theft of another persons ideas. However, this can be avoided by making citations and references from the sources of such data and putting it all in the bibliography of the term paper. As discussed in the class, we are going to have a guide for writing the correct format of the references we have gathered from books, journals, magazines, periodicals, and internet sources. Ma'am Lynnie required us to follow the APA (American Psychological Association) Style of citing the sources. This APA format is widely used in public documentations.
Next meeting, we are going to have an activity about writing bibliographies in the APA Format. I'm looking forward to it because I am certain that this is going to be fun! The activity will be time bound! (wh00o, I feel the pressure!)
Reminder: Bring manila paper, a marker pen, and masking tape.
Strictly, NO MATERIALS, NO PARTICIPATION!
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