- “conduct a knowledge inventory
- take notes carefully
- distinguish between your ideas and those drawn from your sources
- cite sources in the text and in a works cited or reference list
- recognize misconceptions about intentional plagiarism” (126)
I think it would be very useful
to conduct a knowledge inventory at the beginning of the research process. I have found as I read passages in articles or books that I often become disappointed or
concerned because I find myself seeing my own ideas on the page, as someone else
has had the same or very similar thought.
Clearly, I have not published these ideas, but I have come up with them
on my own accord through my own personal experience, discussed with friends and family members, and now I’m concerned that
I have to cite someone else for an idea that was in fact truly my own. It's like some sort of weird reverse plagiarism, and I find myself almost wishing I hadn't read a certain passage because now I feel I have to quote an author expressing the same idea as my own out of fear I might unintentionally plagiarize. Perhaps as I study more, I will
find that these general ideas about play – being a state of mind, access to our
best self, learned from physical experience and not the intellect… are part of what
Bedford discusses as “common knowledge”.
I just don’t know it’s common knowledge yet, as I am new to the Play
community.
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