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To: MineralMan

I gave my links in the first 50 comments if you bothered to read.


133 posted on 09/29/2005 7:49:52 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

"I gave my links in the first 50 comments if you bothered to read."

Well, I saw one link, to answersingenesis, in the first 50 comments.

That's not sufficient, you see. In order to prevent charges of plagiarism, you need to put quotation marks around text you copy and paste, and provide a link to the site and page where you found that text, along with the author's name.

Otherwise, you're just plain stealing someone else's words and attempting (very badly) to pass them off as your own. There's nothing wrong with quoting authorities, but you do have to give credit to those who are smart enough to be quoted, don't you think. To do otherwise is dishonest, you see. To even omit a credit for someone else's text is stealing, and I believe there's a rule against that in your scriptures.

Trust me...it's not hard to give credit to those smart enough to deserve quoting. It even lends credibility to your posts...demonstrating that you understand what plagiarism is.

You might think about it.


135 posted on 09/29/2005 7:56:08 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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