Friday, March 16, 2007

PLAGRAGISM

Plagiarism is something that most high school students do. I think that plagiarism is just copying someone Else's work and making it yours. Most people plagiarize in high schools and university. But I think now there is website or a software that detects if the person has done plagiarism or not.
I also had a bad experience with plagiarism when I was in grade 8. My English teacher was the most homework giving teacher in my school. One day she gave me an assignment to write a speech on the topic that she gave me. The topic was really hard for me. I even asked the teacher to give me another topic, but she didn't had any more topic. I worked really hard to write the speech. I was lucky that I had my parents to help me. But by mistake I did a mistake by plagiarizing from the Internet. At that time I didn't know that what was plagiarism. And then when I gave it to the teacher I got low marks and she also gave me a detention. From that day I got to know what plagiarism was.

Monday, March 12, 2007

How I feel about essays?

Hi, my name is Ramya, and this how I feel about essays. Essays are fun to write but only if we don't have to do research and lots of writing stuff. When ever the teacher says the word essays, a thought comes in my mind that today will be a work day. I have written essays before too. I've been writing essays from since I was in grade 5 and I've always had the same problem with my vocabulary.I think that I am really bad at vocabulary. When ever I write a essay I at least have one problem about vocabulary. So I need to improve in that.
Another thing that I have problem with is that writing an outline doesn't really work for me. I like writing a rough copy directly. I don't know how to write in jot note form. so I need help with that too. I think that essays are fun and interesting to write but I prefer to write small paragraphs about a particular topic.
So this is how I feel about essays and I think that after writing the essay that we just got in class will change my point of view(opinion) about essays.