The point of this blog is to give all students in our class plenty of opportunities to practice developing their own arguments in writing. Writing can't be taught through a lecture or evaluated through quizzes: To become a better writer, you must write--and write often.
Shortcuts are not only useless, but also potentially hazardous to your college career. In "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age," which appeared in the August 1, 2010 online edition of the New York Times, Trip Gabriel reports that some students use the Internet to take shortcuts, either due to confusion about what constitutes property or because they are unwilling to do the hard work required in learning to compose their own ideas.
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