Hello all!! Done with surgery and all went well thank you all for your prayers!! I'm not feeling the best so this will be a short post, I miss all of you but am glad for the break in school. LOL Need more sleep see ya'll later!!
Laura J

I'm feeling a lot better about my surgery next week the pity party is over. It just has to be done. Working hard on my thesis and trying to get as much done as possible!! It's fun and very informative hope you all like it!!! Laura J

Well can't put off my surery again going to have it during the Christmas Break. Was supposed to go to TX to visit my family but the airline will let me change the date for a fee. I will be down for aprox 120 days after but hope I can finish the semester from my bed. I'm pretty upset but then at least it will be over with and I can get better for good. Hope to see you all in discussion and seminar. Laura J

Had to go back to the surgeon today and it looks like things are getting bad again... I am so distraught. I just want to get better and I am doing everything right and it doesn't seem to be going my way. Well enough of the pity party. I will get better, I will get better!! lol please put me in your prayers and pray no more hospital can't afford the time off school or the deductibles either!! lol Thanks for following my blog and good luck to all. Laura J

Plagiarism

This weeks post is on plagiarism and APA citations. How would you feel if you spent a lot of time and energy on writing a thesis and someone stole your work and ideas? I know I would be very angry and feel run over. People work hard to come up with ideas and papers to educate or change the way something is done. I know if I came up with a new way to do something that made things easier I would want to let people know to make their jobs easier but would be furious if someone took credit for my idea. The same goes for taking the time to spend researching a thesis or paper and someone stole my words to use as if they were theirs.
With as many ways as there are to cite someones words or ideas those being a direct quotation, paraphrasing, or summary statements there really is no need to plagerize someone. As difficult as it may be to get the citations in the correct order, we can all learn how, and be lawful trustworthy people. Good luck with all of our papers and quiz this week!! See you in Seminar and Discussion this week. Laura Juracka Shuey

Well this blog is on Research, Citations, and Plagiarism.There are three different ways to use APA citations that can help you not to plagiarise that I have learned in my reading this week and hope we all use them!! Summary where you summarize the authors words then give credit to the author in parenthesis. Same with paraphrasing you paraphrase what you read then cite the author in parenthesis after. Then a direct quotation. Where you directly quote the author and put what they say in quotaion marks. We can all do this easily and keep our papers clean and tidy for our professor to read and learn what we all want to say in our thesis.
Well other than our reading this weeek we have a quiz as well as seminar and d iscussion. And I will see you all there !! Laura J