Well, I am here at Duke for the summer course of study program (year 2). It's been kind of overwhelming, especially because I did not manage to do all of the precourse reading.
We just got back from a one hour lecture on plagerism. What do look out for, what not to do, where the pitfalls are. Plagerism is anything that is not original thought. What I want to know is "is there really an original thought?" I'm sure there are thinkers out there who come up with something that is new or different (I'm thinking mostly in science), but don't we really build on what we know, what we have heard, what we have experienced? I know I have never had an original thought. I'm built that way and it was a problem for me in the business world. I was great with taking on a project and completing it, but do not ask me to come up with the project!!
It's going to be interesting how my papers come out this year. Last year I was so concerned with this concept (plagerism) that the one 'term paper' I had to turn in was only correctly cited quotations. I got points taken off because there wasn't enough of 'me' in there. Well, as I've already said, me is really everyone I've ever run into. I repeat things constantly!!
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