The ethics of writing and research stem from two things (I believe): no plagiarism, and always telling the absolute truth. Especially with a research paper, I really don't think it is fair to say you are giving hard cold facts when really you are just spouting off what you want in order to get the effect/affect (I forget which one) you want. We have a responsibility to our readers to provide research that was fairly attained and correctly interpreted.
We are to avoid plagiarism because of three things (I believe): (because if plagiarize) We are cheeting the public, we are cheeting the original writer, and we are cheeting ourselves. How can we grow and understand if we don't actually process our own unique way of seeing things? We can add to the knowledge of our world just by putting in our own input and seeing in a different way--in our own different way.
It's interesting that we're talking about this in class, because this topic just came up in my Women's Studies class. We were viewing pictures of pretty recent magazine covers that had images of celebrities with fake bodies. It was interesting to discuss how damaging the pictures could be to the public. Our perception of what is "real beauty" is not even close to being "real"!!
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I think a lot of people plagerize because it is so easy to do, and they think that they can get away with it (and a lot of times they do). I am glad that there are strong policies here at BYU for people who think they can cheat the system. We are here to learn adn then prove that we have learned something. When we go around taking other people's ideas than we aren't really learning anything now are we?
ReplyDeletePrecisely! :) It's especially difficult when who you are trying to not plagiarize simply says it perfectly, and you can't think of a better way to say what they are saying.
ReplyDeleteknow what i'm sayin?
effect has to do with the results i always think of "special effects" and that helps me
ReplyDeleteaffect is when it influences something
hope this helps :)