hmmmm...

Let's sort things out, shall we? What EXACTLY is plagiarism and how do you know if it really is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the use of someone else's work without giving that person the proper credit or no attribution at all.

• Cyber-plagiarism: Cyber-plagiarism occurs when you download or copy in part of or all of an article, research paper, or ideas found on the Web, without giving the original author credit.

source: http://www.uah.edu/library/turnitin/studentterm.htm

Plagiarism and the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web has become a more popular source of information for student papers, and many questions have arisen about how to avoid plagiarizing these sources. In most cases, the same rules apply as to a printed source: when a writer must refer to ideas or quote from a WWW site, she must cite that source.

If a writer wants to use visual information from a WWW site, many of the same rules apply. Copying visual information or graphics from a WWW site (or from a printed source) is very similar to quoting information, and the source of the visual information or graphic must be cited. These rules also apply to other uses of textual or visual information from WWW sites; for example, if a student is constructing a web page as a class project, and copies graphics or visual information from other sites, she must also provide information about the source of this information. In this case, it might be a good idea to obtain permission from the WWW site’s owner before using the graphics.


source:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

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source:
http://www.blogskins.com


With all these information given, now tell me, is it plagiarism if you get a lay-out from blogskin and credit the author? Even Ms. Tin said that what she meant by "cheating" in our projects was that if we got all our HTML codes from the source code of someone without asking permission. But that doesn't apply if you download it from blogskin does it? That doesn't even apply if you download it from any site which even asks you to use their lay-outs and codes.

Oh well, some peole are just so shallow that they do not completely understand what they are saying before blurting it out. So next time, for all of you, before you guys say something you have no idea of, better be informed first. And no, I'm not talking about being informed by using just one source and not thoroughly researching and knowing what you're supposed to know.

Remember: research, research, research! Research and be informed right. Get it?!

stupid?

Stop calling people stupid. No one is stupid, in case you don't know. Yes, you may be better but that doesn't mean that those who are not better than you are stupid.

whatever

This is my blog. I am free to put whatever I want here, including my rants and raves. Currently, I am just ranting. I expressing what I feel. This is my outlet. It isn't illegal to put your rants on your journal is it?

sight seeing

haha. Guess who I saw?!?! I saw anonymous! Did I mention that he cut his hair again? He's now semi-kalbo. haha Egg head. It's funny how he looks. He's still cute though.
I also saw other people who are not pleasing to see. haha Joke lang.