Thursday 4 December 2008

understanding plagiarism

Plagiarism is when someone taking some other original works or thinking and use it and pretend it as own works or thinking. Examples for plagiarism are copying work from a book or internet without referencing it, copying someone essay, buying an essay , submit an essay which is used for another module, collaborate with someone. There also some act that considered as not obvious plagiarism which are copy, paste something from internet, not noting down the referencing details, copy, paraphrase and organise writing from text books, not referencing resources in the body text. Plagiarism should be avoided. Plagiarism is regarded as a very serious offense in academic purpose.

reflective writing

one of the learning activities for this month study is having a seminar or discussion. It is interesting to have seminar with international student because there are many different thinking based on their knowledge and experience from their study at their country. It is very useful to have seminar or discussion for some subjects that we have to discuss. By having a seminar we can discuss some cases with different opinion and idea that can helped us to get summary for one subject with better conclusion which based on wide of thinking. Maybe there are some difficulties with language and vocabulary when someone want to give some ideas and opinions so sometimes it is difficult to understand and to follow it. But it doesn't matter a lot, because each of student will help the other students when they have difficulties in language.

subject exam paper search

I've opened the subject exam of my past study which is business law. The exam is business law practice for semester one. The exam style is quite similar to kind of exam I've done in my study in my country which we should analyse some case with some statute or law reference to support our argument. The different is the statute and law reference to solve the cases. It must refer to British Law which has different legal system with Indonesia where the legal system is common law and for British is civil law. But for the business law there are many aspects that have the international legal system which the same for every country. So it is important to study both of legal systems and the international legal system for economic purpose.

Visit London

One of places that I've went in London is Spitalfield Market. There we can found quite cheap clothes, vintage jewellry, and other unique and vintage things. There are some particular days that we can found more art things, which is usually on Friday. We can also find some rare things there. One that I had attracted most when I got there is a 60's classic turntable with good conditions.

Wednesday 3 December 2008

Language abilities and needs 2

There are some improvements of my language abilities. The significant changes are in my pronunciation, vocabulary and academic skills. The others also have improved although there aren't so much changes. Watching films and reading books has helped me to find range of vocabularies. The last film I had watched is Velvet Goldmine which is about England in glam rock era in late 70's where androgynie were about explode to become trends and way of life. The book, which I haven't finish read yet, is about biography of Beck, a talented musician with blues and folk as his roots, but can be reformed to wide and complex tunes.

So this is my language abilities for now.

Speaking - good
writing - good
reading - very good
listening - very good
pronunciation - good
grammar - above average
vocabulary - good
academic skills - good