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FINAL TASK FOR UNIT 9:

ARGUMENTATION AND ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

Student: Anita Villamar

Group: 2019-05

Unit: Argumentation and academic vocabulary

The correct files name would be: 2019-05AVillamar_AAV

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Assignment: Understanding the argumentative writing sequence

1. Choose one of the issues in the list, you do not need to be an expert on the
topic, but you have to be familiar with the arguments people usually make
about it:

Should all students know about how to avoid plagiarism when they copy
information from the internet?

It is important that students understand about plagiarism from the internet. When they
copy and paste from internet is a plagiarism.

They need to recognize the APA rules. However, many students don´t know how make
quotes in their documents, they copy and paste information. For instance, they must
write the references about the quotes to indicate that ideas or text were taken from
another work. Hafner (2001) mention in her article “more than half of the high school
students surveyed admitted either downloading a paper from a Web site or copying a
few sentences from a Web site without citation”

2. Take two or three minutes to exchange your opinions. Who do you think is
going to be the audience of your paper? Record your results in this way (the
words in italics are examples):

Issue: should be punishment the plagiarism in school?

Position: Plagiarism shouldn´t allowed in educational centre.
Readers: academic community (teachers, students, parents, institutions.)

3. Construct an argument for your position giving reasons with supporting

arguments. Anticipate likely objections from reader who might disagree with
your position. Then, write down your findings under the following headings
(the words in italics are examples):

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Reasons:
1. Teacher and parents have to educate their children about cheating. For
example, if a child takes a toy from other child without permission, it is steal. It
is a clear example how we teach our students about plagiarism from internet.
For instance, if we take ideas from a text, we have to take the reference and
write the author of the ideas or text.

2. However, if we take information from internet as guide and write our own ideas,
this is not a plagiarism but we have to write the references at the end of the
text.

Support needed:
1. Teachers’ opinions.
2. Students’ opinion and experience with the issue.
3. Teachers’ and experts experience and knowledge about the topic.

Likely objections:
1. Technology doesn´t allow students develop their mind.
2. Students seek information from internet without restriction.
3. The plagiarism should be punishment.

4. Discuss what you did to construct an argument (the words in italics are
examples):

Reasons: I learned about give my point of view about the plagiarism because I
know about the topic; students make plagiarism when we send an investigation
task. However, in my classes I make that they explain their own ideas about the
task and how they did it.

Support: I did my argument using my experience as a teacher and I use

quotations. These help me to explain my point of view.

Objections: I tried to emphasise the different point of view as a teacher and

students because teacher has problem with students about the summary, gives

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ideas, supporting ideas. In the actuality, students can´t speak or develop their
abilities to think. Technology is good but parents have to regular the use at home.
However, students think that technology is the best and without it they can´t live. It
is necessary to be cared how students use the technology.

Work cited:

Hafner, K. (2001). Lessons in Internet Plagiarism. New York Times. Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/lessons-in-internet-
plagiarism.html