Monday, February 11, 2013

Work Cited/Plagiarism

"plagiarism isn't a bad thing simply because it's an act of intellectual theft -- although it is that. It's a bad thing because it takes the place of and prevents learning."

I definitely agree that this quote found above is true because even though it is an intellectual theft is also takes the place learning time. If students are just plagiarizing other works and putting their name on it then why are they evening bothering going to school and learning. School was invented so that students will come out of it with a degree of education not for them to get an easy grade and not care.

If I had a further question about the information I would want to know the percent of students who agree and disagree with the quote.

Work Cited:
Isserman, Maurice. "Plagiarism: A Lie of the Mind." Chronicle of Higher Education. N.p., 2 May 2003. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.


Sunday, February 10, 2013

Blog 5

http://www.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/socialsignificance.htm

My next source that I will be using in my paper is entitled "The Social Significance of Rap & Hip-Hop Culture", by Becky Blanchard. Finding the credibility of a source is very important especially if you are using the source for a paper. Currency, Relevance, Authority, Authority and Purpose are five of the factors of the CRAAP analysis that help with finding the credibility of different sources. This source has many forms of good credibility. One is that the author and publisher of the article are both stated clearly on top of the article. Another huge factor of credibility is putting a work cited page clearly on the bottom of the page. This shows that the author gave all the credit to the original authors and didn't plagiarize one bit.

Response:

I think this is article is a very good picture of what the youth is dealing with everyday. These rappers and hip-hop singers put a number on teens lives and they have no idea that they are doing so. No one wonder why today's society is so corrupt it's because one influence's every one's lives. What people put in there systems is what they are going to think about and how they are going to react.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Blog Phase 4

http://voices.yahoo.com/is-hip-hop-responsible-wrongful-influences-177239.html?cat=4

The new source that I picked was from Yahoo Voices called "Is Hip Hop responsible for the wrongful influences in our children? This source was a blog written by an individual who felt very strongly on what her children listen too. This article gives real life stories that happened so unless she made them up they are probably true especially since she put names and ages next to the situations.

This source will be useful because in the other sources I talked about the negative effects on the youth from a medical perspective or a alcohol drug outlook. But this article provides the audience with real life situations mainly referring to why rap music is morally wrong for their children to take part in. One parent quote's secular rap music as the "devil" because it is so destructive and explicit it's not even funny.

Yahoo Voices article, "Is Hip Hop responsible for the wrongful influences in our children?, talks about the negative effects on rap music in a youthful atmosphere. The author describes hip-hop music as "music with an attitude."The article talks about how hip hop is morally wrong. Most of the situations refer to what the person  writing the responses feels about their children acting the way the rappers act.