Plagiarism is…

BAD.

But it’s also just as easy to do in our copy-and-paste era, and thus often not fully understood by today’s students, as this New York Times article discusses (see how I gave credit to the origin of the article, rather than paste it in here and lay claim – directly, or indirectly – that the words are mine. Pretty much the same deal for your school papers. Just like when you retweet, you need to make sure that when you’re doing a research paper, you name your original sources and give credit where it is due.)

On to the next one… ((c) Jay Z)