Gerard Fabiano 55% (11/20)
I remember hearing stories about kids getting in serious trouble for plagiarizing a paper. I always wondered how this could be. Don’t get me wrong, I always figured you had to copy what you read onto your paper and that was good. Facts that you read about and wanted to copy over was good, but only to a certain extent. "Putting it into your own words" can be the best way to sum it up, because that is how you avoid plagiarizing. The quiz that I just took was somewhat of a logic quiz regarding copyrights, and even though I only scored a 55% I feel that I do understand the difference between using something as a source and stealing it. Because when you do think about it taking someone else’s work and passing it off as your own is stealing. I feel the best way to avoid this from happening either on purpose or just by mistake is having teachers give unique assignments that cannot be copied. Rather than do a report on a certain topic, why not have the assignment be something along the lines of, write as though you were from a certain time and are there as it is going on in a story format. I feel assignments like this would be more fun to write and read, and will also bring a creative side out in many of the students doing the assignment. Overall I think something like this along with a podcast or PowerPoint slide with voice over would be better suited than a drawn out report someone can read already since its been done a countless number of times.
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