FARID ABDULLAH RANGKUTI

On 7^th  December 2019, we had our second travel program from Graduate Success Attribute subject. We went to Baitul Maghfirah – The house of virtue and kindness – by bus to    

On that day, we learnt about the plagiarism. Plagiarism is a word, idea, images or creative expression of others people and make it as your own like you make it yourselves. As a student,  there are a lot of assignment that we have to complete. It happened for some student to be a plagiarism for their assignment. To avoid plagiarism, there are a few step to be follow. First, start early your works. It is because when we start early our work, it give us time to make some research, less pressure and we can pay more attention to our works. Second, use the paraphrase. It is not a problem to get the idea from the article or journal or other resources but we have to reword the sentences which still have a same meaning as the article. We have to write in our own sentences and just not take away from the resources. Third, add some value to our works. It can be our own opinion about the topic that we learnt or the topic that related to our assignment. By giving our own opinion also can make us get more marks in our assignment. Fourth, at the end of the pages, put the references in it. By including the references in our assignment, the professor can check where the resources that we use in our assignment. It is like a proof that we use that resources. Lastly, there are an application that known as a plagiarism checker. In the plagiarism checker it shown us how many percent that we use the exactly resources for our assignment. If the percent shown higher number that it can consider as a plagiarism.

Furthermore, we also learnt the different and the important between information and knowledge. As we known getting information is we receive the data that contain the context which are we use for our assignment. Data is also known as the information that had be analysed and present through graphic, numeric or communicate. But knowledge is reside in user which is gain from the experience and insight by themselves. In a simple word, knowledge is an information that we get with the meaning. Knowledge is meaningful link made up by people information and acting in a specific thing. Information is a piece of data that related each other and by the end of collecting the data we gain the knowledge. As a student we have to gain our knowledge as many as we can while we are breathing.

Last but not least, before we end our class we are having a quick quizzes about the topic that we learnt. We have to be a pair to answer the quiz. The quiz tested us about the scholarship skill and also the plagiarism. The advantages of having a quiz at the end of the class are to recall what we have learnt and also to test our focus in the class.