The Indiana University Campus Writing program has a great page on plagiarism.
Here, college students can learn everything they need to know about Plagiarism.
Important stuff if you are a high school student, college student, political speech writer, news paper reporter, Ummmmm.... author of a book of some kind or another, or if you are a blogger who has the ego, and wants some kind of recognition from the world wide web.
Me? This is a junk drawer. I put stuff here that I want to keep, for what ever reason, to share with my family and friends, to come back to from some future date and remind my self where I was then. I don't much care who wrote it, if it wasn't me.... If it came unsigned in an email from my favorite brother, or a friend, and I like it, I'll copy and paste it without thinking twice about doing research to hunt down the author so I can give credit.
Does credit have to be given for every email forwarded?
Intent seems to be the issue.
I didn't intend to make anyone think I wrote the sand & stone piece, or the man/dog/heaven piece, and not even the Enough piece.
They were all just sweet thoughts delivered to my inbox from someone who cares enough about me to email something they know I'd like.
Should I accuse my friends and family of plagiarism for not quoting the author?
Nahhhhhhhhhhh, I'm smart enough to know that my brother didn't write the "enough" story.
I know my friend Betty didn't write "sand & stone." Donna may have written the man/dog/heaven bit, but I believe she would have claimed credit for it if she had. Donna has that kind of ego.
Since this blog is meant mostly for myself, with family and friends more or less poking around just to see what's stashed in here, I really don't see what the fuss is about plagiarism? It's not like I have the kind of ego that is looking to take any kind of credit for anything, especially for anything online. Most likely I'd be blamed, not given credit.
The point is, This is my disclaimer, Anything you read here, either I wrote, or I cut and pasted it here.
If I know who the author is, I'll be sure to let you know.
If it sounds like me, talking to myself, then I wrote it.
If you read something here that is really well writen, lovely in it's thought, has a message , or is in any way important, then I didn't write it.
Here, college students can learn everything they need to know about Plagiarism.
Important stuff if you are a high school student, college student, political speech writer, news paper reporter, Ummmmm.... author of a book of some kind or another, or if you are a blogger who has the ego, and wants some kind of recognition from the world wide web.
Me? This is a junk drawer. I put stuff here that I want to keep, for what ever reason, to share with my family and friends, to come back to from some future date and remind my self where I was then. I don't much care who wrote it, if it wasn't me.... If it came unsigned in an email from my favorite brother, or a friend, and I like it, I'll copy and paste it without thinking twice about doing research to hunt down the author so I can give credit.
Does credit have to be given for every email forwarded?
Intent seems to be the issue.
I didn't intend to make anyone think I wrote the sand & stone piece, or the man/dog/heaven piece, and not even the Enough piece.
They were all just sweet thoughts delivered to my inbox from someone who cares enough about me to email something they know I'd like.
Should I accuse my friends and family of plagiarism for not quoting the author?
Nahhhhhhhhhhh, I'm smart enough to know that my brother didn't write the "enough" story.
I know my friend Betty didn't write "sand & stone." Donna may have written the man/dog/heaven bit, but I believe she would have claimed credit for it if she had. Donna has that kind of ego.
Since this blog is meant mostly for myself, with family and friends more or less poking around just to see what's stashed in here, I really don't see what the fuss is about plagiarism? It's not like I have the kind of ego that is looking to take any kind of credit for anything, especially for anything online. Most likely I'd be blamed, not given credit.
The point is, This is my disclaimer, Anything you read here, either I wrote, or I cut and pasted it here.
If I know who the author is, I'll be sure to let you know.
If it sounds like me, talking to myself, then I wrote it.
If you read something here that is really well writen, lovely in it's thought, has a message , or is in any way important, then I didn't write it.
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