Col 105   Campus Activities

	Plagiarism Workshop

For College 105 we must participate in campus activities. One of the campus activities I attended was a workshop on Plagiarism. In the plagiarism workshop the speakers defined plagiarism and gave us tips on how to avoid it. First, we learned the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing. For example, when you summarize you are going to write a few sentences in your own words describing the idea behind what you have read. If summarizing the material will not cover what you have read then you must paraphrase. A paraphrase is also in your own words. However, when paraphrasing you will write the same or nearly the same amount of sentences in the original. It is difficult to write with out plagiarizing, so you must keep the information you are writing about out of sight.  Second, we read a sample article several times. Then the speakers took the article off of the smart board. Then, everyone had to write a summary of the article. The speakers told us what characteristics our summary should have. Finally, we looked at examples of paraphrases and summaries. Then we were shown how to judge if we have plagiarized or not. This workshop was a good introduction to the plagiarism portion of my English 101 course. 
	
	NCBI Diversity Workshop

The second campus activity I participated in was an NCBI Diversity Workshop. During the first part of the activity the speakers would call out ascribed and achieved statuses. If a status described part of your life you stood up and clapped. If the status was not part of your life you clapped for the people who were standing. In this exercise we were learning how to respond to each other’s differences in a positive way. We clapped for different racial, cultural, and sexual statuses. Then the speakers interacted with one another to show us how to respond to prejudice comments appropriately. They showed us how to listen and understand why some one would make a prejudice comment. They also showed us that ignoring or getting mad at a person for making prejudice comments will do nothing to improve the situation. Then we had to pair up with some one. In groups of two we had to say the word “male” in different ways. The person who you paired up with was supposed to say the first thought they had. We discovered the many of us edit our own thoughts around other people so we can blend in. We also learned that we can not judge some one based on their responses. In the future I will look forward to attending more diversity workshops and talking about diversity.