What do Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Laurence Sterne have in common? Yes, they were all authors! Good job! You're brilliant!Did you know they were also plagiarists?
My mother, a brave middle-school language arts teacher, detects and fights plagiarism among her young poets with a simple Google search. Paul Collins, in an article for Slate, points out that with a tool like Google Book Search "even artists not living in the on-line age are in trouble."
Read it!
http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/
Website of the Day: The Internet Public Library
Looking for quick and reliable facts? Looking for credible websites on a given topic? The Internet Public Library is a great place to start research on a plethora of topics! You can also ask librarians questions via e-mail. According to the FAQ page, the IPL is:
- the first public library of and for the Internet community
- an experiment, trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa
- a group of highly talented, creative, strong-willed people, working hard
What's not to like about that? Check it out:
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