Sunday, November 16, 2008

"The Rules of Attribution"

This story talks about how writing students are not being taught the rules of plagiarism and copyright laws. it says that student are taught everyday to reuse though and recycle ideas and that the rules need to be better explain so that student wont get in trouble for dong something that they didn't even realize they were doing.

In my high school, the rules of plagiarism and copyright laws were always explained, so much so that if we are caught using the work of someone else without giving them credit we would fail the course. But just because one school teaches these things doesn't mean all schools do. While teaching to recycle and reuse ideas are goods things to teach student think that plagiarism and copyright needs to be better explained, especially because its such a huge things and a crime.

Now , where i couldn't relate to the students the story talked about because all my school taught us the different between plagiarism and recycling ideas, i do agree that schools need to better teach the rules so that student wont be in trouble later on in life for not be knowledgeable

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