unit 4 blog: # 1, CC2

Hi Gang,
I have decided since I try to post every day I will answer one of the four questions in blog posed to us this unit; each day I post to my blog.
The first question is about the importance of citing your work; it is the utmost. I cannot stress enough on the fact that you are NOT ALOUD to take some other persons thoughts, and use them as your own. You just cannot do that. The only people that could actually do that are completely lazy, and have no morals or ethics what so ever; there is no evidence of a conscious. Someone did that to me in one of the DB's that I had posted. They copied me almost verbatim because, I believe, they were running late for their post to be in on time. I did not call them on it because the teacher could see it. It was in the DISCUSSION board! If I remember correctly, she did say something to the student. Another time, a student copied and pasted straight from Google into the DB. This time I said flat out "Where did you get this information"? This student could not spell the word "the", and the post was in APA college format. I new it was a blatant act of plagiarism. The teacher called the student on it right off too. That made me mad. I am "earning" my degree, and this person is trying to slide by. Bad form!
I am now going to go work on school work, do some laundry, and make burgers for the BBQ tonight, and clean my fish tanks. I have three ...
Thank you very much,
Lara