Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Rules Are Rules
As a student, there are those days where sometimes you just want to get something done quick and easy. Doing things this way can lead to several consequences, whether it be simply getting a bad grade or maybe even something more severe. Copy and pasting someone's work without crediting the source, is plagiarism. Teachers and professors feel that it is misleading and the students aren't really learning about their assignments. Donald J. Dudley over sees this. He said, "Writing is difficult, and doing it well takes time and practice."
I believe that plagiarism is something that students shouldn't do but then again, I don't feel like citing or crediting a page should be so difficult. I think that putting quotation marks or saying who said it is enough. The formatting is ridiculous. If it's for a research paper it really shouldn't matter because facts are facts.
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Nice title and great graphic of you and Kylie. Be sure and mention the name of the article and where that article came from in the first sentence of the summary paragraph. You also needed to provide your reader with a live link to the article for reference.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the formatting issues are conventions of academic writing and people must adhere to them....Rules are Rules as you say. Even in business writing, there are conventions about format, like letter format, email format, memo format, report writing format. You will never escape conventions.
Fix your last sentence by putting a comma after your introductory phrase.