beccablog, teacher-librarian » plagiarism http://beccablog.edublogs.org Becca (Stith) Munson - A Teacher-Librarian Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:23:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Plagiarism Example http://beccablog.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/plagiarism-example/ http://beccablog.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/plagiarism-example/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:54:41 +0000 beccablog http://beccablog.edublogs.org/?p=115 I am always looking for real world examples when discussing plagiarism with students.  Often, it seems that taking something from another site is not a big deal.  I found this recent company blog article discussing how another company used their words.  Although to me, the offense is very slight, it does a good job of showing how important it is to be an ethical user of information.    AND it shows that we don’t make up these rules!

(Note: their top image is actually copied from another site as well.)

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