Saturday, November 24, 2007

Please take the poll on the left hand side of the blog

Some of you might be wondering why I never posted about the meeting I went to where I was invited to represent the underclass for the new website design of my university's social work website. Before I get to it...yes, I am the queen of the run-on sentence :) I went to the meeting the day after we got back from the blues trail excursion...which was great, by the way. So I was kind of dogged out and admittedly not very coherent. It seemed to me that they were not at all interested in or impressed with what I spent the entire summer working on. It seemed to me they were only interested in getting it done the easiest and quickest way possible, even though I offered to go sit with the IT people and learn how to do the coding. In all fairness I can understand the mindset...not having an on staff programmer would make you opt for the quick, easy and simple route. But the reason why I haven't posted about it until now is that in the course of the discussion one of the instructors from the PhD program said that my site promoted plagiarism. Ouch! Punch me in the gut why don't ya :) Now, I cannot for the life of me see how providing links to valuable resources promotes plagiarism so I have stewed on it and gone through all the grief stages about it and have finally decided to put up a poll to see what my readers think. According to sitemeter there are about a thousand or so of you out there. It would be great if I could get a few of you in here to respond to the poll before I lose my mind over this :) Thanks so much!

8 comments:

  1. To imply that websites promote plaigarism is like saying the availability of books does the same. It is hogwash.

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  2. Thanks, andrew! I wish I'd thought to say that to her!

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  3. Well if you purposely link to other websites that use copied copyright content I guess he could criticise.. but I cant see any obvious sign of that. (plus how on earth can you be expected to verify the originality of every useful website in a list of useful links like this anyay??)

    I've got no clue what he means by "promoting plagiarism" actually.. unless he has some philosophical objection to sharing information! LOL

    Maybe he is just a wanker who wanted to find any possible reason to put your website idea down.

    I wouldn't even justify his silly criticism by having this poll personally.

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  4. If someone says "so and so said this" or "here is an excerpt" or links to the article or site or whatever, then for heaven's sake, how is that plagiarism?

    I like what Andrew said ...

    Dolphin

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  5. I feel better already...just posting about it and getting some positive feedback. Thanks!

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  6. Are you using somebody else's words or posting's from other sites? If not then this so called professor can just sit on his thumb and spin.If anything he just sounds jealous green with envy. you go girl.

    LUG

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  7. My primary intent is to provide relevant links to reputable sites that might be of use to social work students so that they might not have to spend countless hours searching for what they need like I did when I first started school....that's it. You're so funny Matt!!!

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  8. What an assumption your instructor has made! And how little faith she has in humanity! I certainly came her to your site looking for ideas to steal so please keep them coming! No one who uses the internet could be intelligent enough to have an original thought, we all have to resort to plagiarism to get by. ??? What even made her think of that in the first place? It's rude.

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