Reading Response: Article Six "Plagiarism LInes Blur for Students in Digital Age"

http://schools.bvsd.org/p12/Casey/library/Pages/Plagiarism.aspx

 I agree our generation believes that everything on the web does not belong to anyone. Teresa Fishman said, “It’s possible to believe this information is just out there for anyone to take.” Sometimes teens have research papers to do and end up copying what an author says, because they chose to be lazy and not really think about what the author meant in their terms. I do not understand how a student can accidentally plagiarize a piece of writing here at Parkview High School, because in every grade there is that one teacher that pounds how to do citations in our head. Citations are really easy now that you can just fill out the genres basic information in and the generator will produce a citation.

A way to fight plagiarism is to teach students early on how to summarize pieces of writing and to learn to put things in their own words. This helps the teacher and student. Teachers know their students writing, so it will be easy for the teacher to know what their student meant if the writing is in their terms. The student will actually will do better during their presentations. Students grasp on t0 knowledge more if it is presented in a way that is understandable for them.

 Plagiarism is copying someone elses work. I wonder if it is the same if someone copies a concept. After Twilight came out, a lot of other vampire movies came out. Honestly, it was really annoying. People need to start making up their own characters that will be a phenomena of their own. The same thing happens with celebrities. After Justin Beiber it was okay to sign young children that seemed to sound good, but everyone wants to make a fuss about how they are becoming rebels. Another annoying "plagiarism" copy is with clothes. All clothes are the same trend, but with different prices. Somewhere along the line maybe people will begin to be original and realize that repeats are really annoying.