How to find source material

When we start to do an assignment, we usually search for the ideas and materials to write about. The easy way is to get help from the other writers. However, there are too many of sources nowadays. Can you trust all of it? Why? The reasons are not every information given is accurate. Instead, most of it is based on their thoughts and opinions.

The good source must be valid, credible and reliable. Journal is one of the examples of reliable sources. Meanwhile, there are also some sources that are less reliable such as blogs, discussion forum, yahoo answers and others. Although it is less reliable, we still can refer to it based on the contents. As for example blogs that consists of academic information such as about science and many more.

There are few tips that I get from my lecturer on how to find a good source especially in internet. When you find a source in the internet, first thing to do is to check the URL address. Second thing is by referring to the content. When talking about the content, first thing to refer is about the author. The author must be an expert and have credentials. If the company, it must be an affiliated company. Second thing is about the audience. Then, you have to look on the content and lastly check on the references. The references show that the author gets the information from the reliable sources and can be trusted. Next is by checking the date of the website. It is better to choose updated information in choosing our sources.  

Plagiarism

Plagiarism – always relate with copy and stealing others thoughts and ideas. It happens when people take credit on others people work without proper citation and others.
The advancement of technology creates a huge impact on this matter. Students especially are able to get the information easily by using engine search such as Googles. Although there are many sources provided but not all of them reliable. Those who are not having experience in academic writing and lack of writing skills are the most who did plagiarism. One of the things that will lead people commit plagiarism is when they do not paraphrase and summarize sentences using their own words.  They copy the sentences directly without changing the text. Besides, writing sentences without using proper citation will also lead to plagiarism. 
The plagiarism happens when student does not plan their time wisely. As academic writing need lots of works  starting from information sourcing, reading annotating and and lastly writing. In order to minimize the risk of plagiarism,students should spare their ample time efficiently.
As a conclusion, it is important for us to avoid plagiarism in our writing. Writing is a medium for us to create and tell everyone about our own ideas. It is not wrong to pick others thoughts and ideas, instead we can use it in our writing with our own ways by paraphrase it.

My humble thoughts.Thank you :)