Anita Leinweber Plagiarism Summary

Anita Leinweber is an assistant professor of marine science at UH Hilo. She is originally from Germany, where she received her master of science and doctor of philosophy before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA. She, thankfully, had much to say for each of the questions, allowing me to learn a lot about writing and public speaking in my field. Her own experiences with public speaking mostly revolve around scientific conferences, where she would present her research to peers and many other scientists. She also taught a class at UCLA that she considered more public because it was open to interested individuals 55 and older. She also often spoke to K-12 teachers about her science and how they could use it in their own classroom. As for

She stated they were all part of a learning process and were all challenges the students faced in the beginning before they knew better. When speaking on improper citation, she mentioned the way students are taught that they can either quote something or paraphrase it. In scientific papers, it’s all paraphrasing, but students will quote because they were taught that it was okay in all instances. With plagiarism, she believes many students do not deliberately plagiarize, but their lack of awareness of what plagiarism is negatively affects them. When speaking on improper grammar, she mentioned that many students had trouble going from one thought process to the next. The thoughts were not the problem, just the lack of bridges between them. What she considers effective writing are focused and concise papers. She reviews manuscripts and reads many where the author tries to include too much of their experiment. When doing research, many scientists do not just focus on one thing, but branch off. In their papers, it is better to focus on one small part of it so the readers do not get overwhelmed or confused. She says the same is true for the opposite. Trying to write five scientific papers about one interesting result is