How and when do we begin learning about plagiarism? Why don’t we always learn?
In the past several months I’ve been a volunteer tutor for an eighth grader whose homework assignments often involve looking up terms and concepts on Wikipedia or Dictionary.com. For her most recent project she needs to provide visual images to illustrate her points; these images are also found online. While working on her project, my student often has an IM window open on her screen; she clicks on it every time I turn away. The computer screen thus becomes a single entity containing the private chat and information resources.
Why am I surprised when she is reluctant to reference her sources then? And, how do you reference 50 images from Google that are glued to index cards?