At a table
in the food court
Jeff:
Bryan, stop staring at that pile of paper, man, you're giving me the creeps!
Bryan: Sorry, it's just... I dunno. I've got all this stuff from
my research, but I don't know how to pull it together. I've read it, and
underlined the good parts and.... I'm just not sure how the pieces fit.
Jeff: Well look. Just go to the computer lab, sit down, take a
little of this, a little of that, a quote here, a quote there, and boom!
You're done! The stuff you printed from this webpage looks good, just
use that.
Bryan: I can't do that, man, that's like...
plagiarism.
I'm supposed to have my own idea and then use this stuff to support it.
But I have to understand it first....
Questions
to consider:
- Do you
ever write directly from photocopies or printouts you've made from your
research, or are you a note-taker?
- What was
wrong with Jeff's idea of using the stuff Bryan found on the web as
the text of his paper? Do you agree with Bryan that this is plagiarism?
