Maki School Blog

 We all know about the existence of plagiarism and of course have a general idea of what it means and what could be considered as plagiarism, but who would've thought there was a whole spectrum of rules and considerations regarding several different types of plagiarism? People who are fond of writing and literature, probably, but most of the people I know aren't, and that includes me. While I do enjoy a good book every now and then, much like most casual readers, I only pay attention to just that; the contents. There are so many things to consider when writing or creating an object of literature and that includes the citation and credit of any and all sources and references that you may have used. Many people do it on purpose and hope they won't get caught, however, some people do it without even realizing. For this log, I will enumerate the 10 different types of plagiarism on the Plagiarism Spectrum. The first one is called Clone. It's pretty self-explanatory, a pretty

 I'm sure many a Filipino student struggles at least a little bit when it comes to English and Research-related subjects. Terms that might be considered as simple to some may prove to be rather difficult to others. From my experience, many students — including myself — have found themselves confused, mixing up one thing with another. An example of these mix-ups is the confusion between the "Topic Sentence" and the "Thesis Statement." The topic sentence of your research is usually found in the beginning of the first paragraph of an expository paper. It briefly summarizes the main idea or point of said paragraph. The thesis statement on the other hand, while also found within the first paragraph of your paper, it is not necessarily found at the start. Rather than just summarizing the paragraph it's in, a thesis statement summarizes the point or claim of the entire paper.  Although these two essential parts of an academic paper are very similar in  terms of the

 This week, two groups presented their assigned topics in the form of PowerPoint presentations. Among the few topics that were presented, the one that we had mainly explored — Academic Text Structures — was from Axel's group.  Academic Writing is commonly split into two types. The three part essay structure otherwise known as the IBC (Introduction, Body, Conclusion) structure and the IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) structure. From what I had already in stock and from what I was able to absorb from their presentation, the IBC structure is more or less the standard format being used for all your essays, reflection papers, report papers and many other school related written activities. The IMRaD structure on the other hand is used specifically for research reports and the like. The presenters also discussed the 9 Main Structures of Academic Text — further discussed by Ms. Laarni — which turned out to be a very similar topic to one we had tackled last school year.

    This week we learned about Academic and Non-academic Texts. While it may have seemed obvious at first what should be considered academic and non-academic, there were so many more characteristics and factors to consider when identifying and differentiating these texts.     From what I was able to absorb from our lessons, for a text to be considered an academic text, it has to be targeted at "academics" or in other words, intellectuals who are specialized or interested in the field or subject that said text is covering. They must also always use a formal language and tone of writing, following a specific and uniform format for the purpose of being used as a point of reference or study. Examples of this would be research papers, concept papers, thesis papers, etc.     Non-academic texts on the other hand are texts that do not quite follow a specific format. Although a lot of them will share similar formats due to having similar purposes, such as cooking recipes and gossip ar

 Para sa, Sinumang magpapahiram ng kanilang mga mata, tainga, at puso. Hey,      Oo ikaw, ikaw nga!... na nagbabasa nito na nakaupo sa isang sofa, sa sahig, sa iyong kama, o nasa iyong lugar ng trabaho o sa paaralan, marahil kahit sa isang tindahan sa isang lugar, humihigop ng isang tasa ng kape o tsaa. Ikaw na hindi kailanman naisip o kailangang mag-isip "Bakit ako tinatrato sa ganitong paraan?" o “Ano ang pinagkaiba ko sa kanila?”. Sa iyo na walang paki-alam sa mga taong hina-harass at tinatapakan ang pagkatao dahil lang sa hindi nila kayang ipagtanggol ang sarili. Iniaalay ko ang liham na ito sa iyo.      Ang karapatan ng isang tao na mabuhay, karapatang magmahal, at karapatang maging kung sino siya ay hindi isang bagay na basta na lamang mapagpasyahan ng ibang tao batay sa kanilang personal na paniniwala at katayuan sa buhay. Ang bawat isa sa atin na nabubuhay sa mundong ito ay may karapatan ng mabuhay na ayon sa gusto natin. At ang bawat isang tao ay nararapat lamang na