Is it called Plagarism?

[landakerjenna]

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Other reasons I want to have a career in pharmacy are to help people recover faster, to work directly with patients, to be an important member of the health care team, to research in drug therapy and to help defend against bioterrorism. Therefore, I set my goal to become a pharmacist.


I am going to use this lines in my essay will that be called plagiarism???

I am not like pasting everything I just took the idea! What do you guys say?? Can you help me rewrite it!




http://studentdoctor.net/wiki/index.php/SDN_Pharmacy_Wiki#Is_Pharmacy_Right_for_me.3F

 

[omnione]

You essentially paraphrased and condensed the content of the page you linked into your statement. I don't consider that plagarism since you aren't presenting a statement or part of a statement verbatim as if you wrote it. You just are a little unoriginal.😉

However, it may be borderline depending on the person. Either way, you should look into how this statement fits into your PS as it doesn't sound very elaborate. You've got to be able to explain why those attributes are appealing rather than state all of them in a sentence.

 

[AngelaCL]

Not plagarism, but not the best sentence for a personal statement either. Why do *you* want to be a pharmacist? What role do you see yourself taking? As giga said, you aren't going to do research, retail, and whatever bioterrorism prevention falls under. It's a little too Miss America "I'm working for world peace!" Sounds good, means little.

 

[landakerjenna]

Thanks a lot. It is just one paragraph from my personal statement but I was just little worried about putting it there. 🙂

 

[Farmercyst]

Technically taking anyone's words and using them as your own is plagiarism, even if you paraphrase it so that it is not identical to the lifted text. Were this an academic paper, you could find yourself in trouble were anyone to link it to the original source.

http://www.writing.northwestern.edu/avoiding_plagiarism.html
"Avoiding Plagiarism
What is plagiarism, and why should writers worry about it?
Some tips for avoiding accidental plagiarism when you use sources
Applying these tips: avoiding two common forms of accidental plagiarism
-Paraphrases with no citation
-Misplaced citations

Example of acceptable paraprase: putting the idea in your own words "

Hope this helps.