Week 3 At Shorter University-Cornell Note Taking Summary and Outlines

In week 3 at Shorter University we read about the Cornell Note Taking System.  We also learned about making outlines.  We revisited the article from week 1 concerning Plagiarism in the Digital Age.  We used the information we read about the Cornell Note Taking Summary and outlines to create a Cornell Note Taking Summary and an outline about the article.

This is an example of the Cornell Note Taking Summary:

Plagiarism in the Digital Age	Name:  Jeffrey E. Abernathy
	Teacher:  Dr. Nichols
	Class:  CIS 1200-02-1106 Introduction to Online Learning
	Date:  June 25, 2011
Questions/Main Ideas:	Notes
Examples of Plagiarism	Rhode Island Freshman copied and pasted from a website and did not think needed to credit a source because page did not contain author information
	University of Maryland student copied from Wikipedia and did not think information needed to be credited because it was unsigned and collectively written and therefore common knowledge
What causes plagiarism	Many students do not grasp using words of others is a serious misdeed
	Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy
	Internet redefining how students understand the concept of authorship
	Generation of students think information is just sitting in cyberspace without an author
Survey results on Plagiarism	2006-2010 surveys show 40% of 14,000 undergraduates admit to copying a few sentences
	Number who view copying from the Web as cheating declined to 29% as opposed to previous decades 34%
Various views on gravity of Plagiarism	31 y/o Rutgers undergraduate student Sarah Brookover “generation exists in a world where media and intellectual property don’t have same gravity” & Online “everything can belong to you really easily”
	University of Notre Dame anthropologist, Susan D. Blum, student writing exhibits  same qualities of pastiche (imitates the style of another) as TV shows referencing other shows are music sampling from previous works
Changing views concerning plagiarism	Idea of author creating singular original work and Western concept  of intellectual property rights secured by copyright law are both being challenged
	Students less interested in cultivating unique and individual identity as their 1960’s counterparts
All hope not lost – Some still do not utilize plagiarism	Indians University senior Sarah Wilensky “still plenty of creative people who are doing original work”; “an insult the ideal is gone, and now we are left only to make collages of works of previous generations”
Root Causes of Plagiarism	Wilensky says main reason plagiarism occurs is students are not prepared in high school
	Out of 196 plagiarism cases at University of California, Davis, cases did not involve students ignorant of need to credit sources
	Student intentionally copied, knew it was wrong, were unwilling to engage the writing process
Summary:  Digital Age has made everything easily accessible on the internet.  Plagiarism occurs for a variety of reasons but the main reasons are lack of preparation on writing procedures in high school, ignorance about authorship of documents found on the internet and overall laziness of students to engage in the writing process.  Since the 1960’s until now the generations seem less concerned about having individuality in their writing, and as more information becomes available and other avenues of media such as TV and music “borrow” from other sources without crediting the source, students are less concerned about the necessity to give credit where credit is due.

We also prepared an outline on the same article:

CIS 1200-02-1106 Introduction to Online Learning Assignment L3a Part 2

Plagiarism Lines Blur in Digital Age

Thesis:  Plagiarism lines blur in the Digital Age because of being unprepared in high school, ignorance regarding authorship and laziness in general.

I.                     Examples of Plagiarism

A.      Students unaware credit is needed

B.      Students lazy in general

C.      Digital age provides easy access to comingled information

II.                  Statistical Plagiarism Information

A.       Number of students surveyed who admitted to plagiarism

B.      Anti-plagiarism views decreasing

III.                Reasons for Plagiarism

A.       Prevalent in other forms of media

B.      Accessibility to information in the Digital Age

C.      Laziness regarding the writing process

D.      Poor student preparation in high school

Week 2 at Shorter University in Introduction to Online Learning

This is the second week in the Introduction to Online Learning and this week we are learning about Microsoft Word and its many features.  One of the assignments this week is to create a Word document and make changes and submit the document via MOODLE.  This is the beginning of the second week and I am posting a preliminary post here and will add to this blog throughout the course.