Sum/ Eval/ Response Paper Due

Turn in your Final Version with all drafts and comment sheets.

Critical Thinking practice: problems.

Define plagiarism in your own words.

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Identify a problem in this story. State it.

Helene

2. Why so different? Is there a problem here?State it.

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the "right" outcome? Is there a problem here?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Is there a problem?

If the courts are in charge...

Down Under

Comparison.

5. Do you see a problem here?

If there's time....better news, for some: music... TV iTunes

6. Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?  Is there a problem?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1. Be thinking about problems that interest you. Your next paper is a "Problem" paper. You choose the problem. (One prohibition: gun control as a problem.) Possible ideas:  issues with emissions/ fuel/ consumers.  GMOs. Global trade issues. Technology? Robotics? What's a problem that's bugging you? Politics?

2. TWFTD:  intellectual property from Wikipedia?