Plagiarism is when you copy someone's idea or writing without giving credit. This is something that is very serious and has very serious consequences, especially in high school and college. I know that there are many apps that run essays through their databases to check if anything has been copy/pasted in or stolen. I'm not sure about how much you have to paste in to be considered plagiarism or what happens if you use something similar but not quite the same.
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Looking back at this after reading the article makes me think that I had a good idea of what plagiarism was already. A lot of what I discussed came up, though they never said that professors use software to see if essays have been plagiarized. I didn't really think about how professors would take it, the article mentions that many professors take cheating and plagiarism very seriously. I also learned that changing words around is still plagiarism.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Punctuation in Texts?
I believe that punctuation should be used in text messaging. I do agree that texting is its own form of language and thus is not killing language as we know it, as stated in the the TED talk video, but I think punctuation can be important. We are constantly texting and so it's a good habit to get into using grammar and punctuation. It's a great opportunity to practice.
When I am texting someone, I do admit to judging them by how they text. If it's full of misspelled words and poor punctuation, then I will probably be less inclined to talk to them in the future. Once while texting I ended my sentence with a period. The person I was texting asked if I was mad at him because the period "seemed harsh". When did punctuation take on that type of meaning? And how common place is this becoming?
When I am texting someone, I do admit to judging them by how they text. If it's full of misspelled words and poor punctuation, then I will probably be less inclined to talk to them in the future. Once while texting I ended my sentence with a period. The person I was texting asked if I was mad at him because the period "seemed harsh". When did punctuation take on that type of meaning? And how common place is this becoming?
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Texting Epidemic
Does texting make us bad writers?
This has been a question that people have been asking for years. As texting became more and more common place, people started using shorthand and soon a whole texting language emerged. But does it make us bad writers?
Looking back at some of my old Facebook posts, or old texts, can sometimes be cringe worthy. In middle school I thought it was so cool to use the text shorthand, or add extra letters to words. It's how all of my friends talked, and so it's how I talked. But I realized in high school that I was representing myself in a way that I didn't like. I didn't want to look uneducated or like I didn't know how to type. So I stopped using texting lingo and started typing everything out. No more "idk" or anything like that. I used proper grammar. But so many teens and kids text now, and they usually use short hand. As a result I've seen elementary school kids put "idk" for "I don't know" in their written work in class, and have seen other results of texting. But one thing about texting is that it forces us to be more expressive. We have to type in a way where the other person can understand how we mean our words. Reading a message is more difficult than hearing it, how can we get across our sarcasm or emotion? We learn to be more expressive and and to get our message across.
Texting has had different effects on our writing, both negatively and positively. It hasn't necessarily made us bad writers, but it has brought new hurdles into the classroom.
I never considered that texting is just an extension of how we are speaking, and not actual writing. Texting is fingered speech and thus is something that we do not spend a lot of time thinking or reflecting over, it is something that flows. Like speech we are not overly concerned about grammar, and this is definitely something we see daily in texting. After listening to the TED Talk video, I can definitely see that texting is different than writing and consequently does not make us bad writers. A point from the video that I really loved was that people, even presidents of colleges, have been complaining about youth's grammar and spelling for hundreds of years. It is not something that is only now occurring just because of texting. It is something we will probably continue to complain about for the next hundred years and should not be blamed on texting and technology.
This has been a question that people have been asking for years. As texting became more and more common place, people started using shorthand and soon a whole texting language emerged. But does it make us bad writers?
Looking back at some of my old Facebook posts, or old texts, can sometimes be cringe worthy. In middle school I thought it was so cool to use the text shorthand, or add extra letters to words. It's how all of my friends talked, and so it's how I talked. But I realized in high school that I was representing myself in a way that I didn't like. I didn't want to look uneducated or like I didn't know how to type. So I stopped using texting lingo and started typing everything out. No more "idk" or anything like that. I used proper grammar. But so many teens and kids text now, and they usually use short hand. As a result I've seen elementary school kids put "idk" for "I don't know" in their written work in class, and have seen other results of texting. But one thing about texting is that it forces us to be more expressive. We have to type in a way where the other person can understand how we mean our words. Reading a message is more difficult than hearing it, how can we get across our sarcasm or emotion? We learn to be more expressive and and to get our message across.
Texting has had different effects on our writing, both negatively and positively. It hasn't necessarily made us bad writers, but it has brought new hurdles into the classroom.
I never considered that texting is just an extension of how we are speaking, and not actual writing. Texting is fingered speech and thus is something that we do not spend a lot of time thinking or reflecting over, it is something that flows. Like speech we are not overly concerned about grammar, and this is definitely something we see daily in texting. After listening to the TED Talk video, I can definitely see that texting is different than writing and consequently does not make us bad writers. A point from the video that I really loved was that people, even presidents of colleges, have been complaining about youth's grammar and spelling for hundreds of years. It is not something that is only now occurring just because of texting. It is something we will probably continue to complain about for the next hundred years and should not be blamed on texting and technology.
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