facts about plagiarism

According to a survey by the Psychological Record 36% of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material.


A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once.

A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never been appropriately disciplined.

The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next (Free Press, July 1996) states that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989.

A national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of students admitted to plagiarizing from the internet; 74% of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious" cheating; and 47% of students believe their teachers sometimes choose to ignore students who are cheating.

A study performed by Donald L. McCabe titled Faculty Responses to Academic Dishonesty: The Influence of Honor Codes found that 55% of faculty "would not be willing to devote any real effort to documenting suspected incidents of student cheating".When Professor Donald McCabe, the foremost expert in educational integrity, studied over 4500 high school students in May 2001, he found out that 15% had passed a paper taken in large part from a website or from a term paper, 45% disclosed that they work together on their home works, 52% had taken some sentences from a website without specifying the source, and 72% confessed that they do severe cheating in one or more occasion.

As stated by the US Surveys and World Report, 80% of high school students say that they have cheated, 51% high school students said that in their opinion, cheating was not wrong, and 95% of high school students who cheat said that they had not been caught. 75% of college students confessed that they cheated, almost 85% of college students believed that cheating was needed to do well, and 90% of college students did not think cheaters would be detected.

At one time, a work was only protected by copyright if it included a copyright trademark (the © symbol). According to laws established in 1989, however, works are now copyright protected with or without the inclusion of this symbol.

Objective

Today I will research my topic and find 10 facts/behaviors that I would like to
educate my peers about to prevent an inappropriate digital footprint in their future.

plagirism

Works Cited

LaRosa, Christina. Celebrities Behaving Badly. ABC News. June 15, 2007. Web

Steinberg, Paul. Celebrity Gossip and Why We Love It. Enzine Articles. December 11, 2008.

            Web.

                  how celebrities mess up. People like to watch celebrities mess up by getting gossip about them, because it shows how the gossip can mess up the celebrity’s career. An example of this is Lindsay Lohan. Because of the bad gossip about her, Lindasy has gotten a bad reputation over the past year. The second reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because it shows how celebrities mess up.

            Most people think that gossip about celebrities’ good deeds, because they don’t find it as interesting. The good gossip is also not really worth anything. Celebrities’ bad behavior is covered more in news stories than positive behavior, because people find it more interesting, it has more value to it, and it shows how the celebrities mess up. 

David Escobedo

Mia Tijerina-Baldwin

ELA

November 3, 2011 

Gossip about Celebrities

People have always been interested in gossip. People don’t care about celebrities’ bad behavior, only the gossip.  The reason why people enjoy celebrity gossip is, because they like to see celebrities mess up. Celebrities’ bad behavior is covered more in news stories than positive behavior, because people find it more interesting, it has more value to it, and it shows how the celebrities mess up.

The first reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because they find it more interesting. People find celebrity gossip more interesting, because people think that listening to celebrities doing good deeds is boring, and instead listening to them mess up is even more entertaining. A good example of this would be Lindsay Lohan ditching her community service. The first reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because they find it more interesting.

The second reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because it has more value to it. The reason celebrity gossip has more value to it, because people would rather buy gossip about celebrities rather than gossip about the good things they do. An example of this would be Lindsay Lohan’s community service. People wouldn’t want to buy gossip that says good things about her community service. The second reason           why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because it has more value to it.

The third reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because its shows

Thesis Statement

                                                            THESIS STATEMENT


Celebrities' bad behavior is covered more in news stories than positive behavior, because people find it more interesting, it has more value to it, and it shows how celebrities make errors.

IA2- Thesis Statement

       Many people today enjoy gossip about celebrities. People don't care about the positive things about celebrities, only the gossip. The three things that people enjoy hearing about celebrities are cheating, lying, and breaking laws.

EVALUATE:

22. How could you improve your presentation?

I could spend more time on it and I could add more effort

23. Does your presentation meet all of the requirements?

Well...its missing some stuff, but it shows all of the steps/. 

24. Share your presentation with at least 2-8^th, 3-9^th, 4-10^th+ friends. What did he/she like about your presentation?

25. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve?

26. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer?

Yes

27. How can my learning help my community?

It can show them the design cycle.

28. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6)

5

Movie

I was able to finish my movie, but I still need to complete my survey for a 6th grader. If I finish my survey, all I need to do is test the 6th grader by showing him the movie, and get him to answer the survey. If he gets a question wrong, he will be shown the part of the video that explains the question he missed.

Create

I plan on finishing this video by getting the video done at home and showing it to my cousin, because he is a 6th grader. I can then review him by giving him questions about the video.

My project total to complete is 90 minutes divided into 60 minutes equals 1.5 hours.

Test:
I will test them one question for every step of the design cycle. For every question that they get wrong, they have to see the part about that certain step.

Investigation Reflection

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Formulate a Design Specification
I am going got make an video. It can describe the design cycle in a very simple way.A 6th grader will be able to understand fully.

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? The assignment has to be easy to understand and under two minutes.

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? The limitation is the features made in the video maker. It doesn't allow pictures to be made in the video, so only the text can explain it.

13. How will you "test" your project?

STUDENT SAMPLE!! DO NOT COPY THIS IS AN EXAMPLE!!   I will show them the video one more time and ask them to explain the design cycle to me.


Test Specifications:

•  Easy to understand
• 6th garders will be able to recite the design cycle.
• Will be at least 2 min. long
• It is made by Dvovler MovieMaker
• • • Can be created in the time given
• • • • Makes sense

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Reflection

I rate myself as a 5-6, because I was able to explain the problem and discuss its revelance. I was able to investigate the problem, and able to evaluate the results in my investigation.

Scene 1: Investigation
Scene: 2: Plan
Scene 3: Design
Scene 4: Create
Scene 5: Evaluation snap shot

Scene 1: Investigation
Scene: 2:Plan
Scene 3: Design
Scene 4:

ClassTools                                                                                                             

The # that i gave for Simplicity is 5, because in the game maker,  the process to make the game is super simple to make. All you have to do is add the questions and their answers. You can put whatever questions you want, but you have to add their answers.

The # that i gave for Theme is 3, because the color of the website is only white. The letters may have a different color, but the website itself is blank. In the creation of the game you cannot add a color backround or make the text a different color.    

The # i gave for music is a 2. The game site is able to add a video in it, but for music itself. There isn't any.

Dvolver MovieMaker

The # i gave for Simplicity is a 4. The moviemaker is really simple. The video makes everything. all you have to do is add a backround, a character, and words in the bubbles.

The # i gave for Theme is 3. I gave it a 3. because mainly the entire thing seems kind of plain, and the website doesn't really express color. 

The # i gave for Music is 2. I gave it a 2. because you can add backround music, but you can't add

main music. The music isn't really good

Day 2- investigation reflection

Today, I decided I want to do an video. I went to Mrs. Hinojosa's blog and clicked on arcade games, which took me to Dvolver MovieMaker. Here I researched how to use it and went through the tutorial on how to make a video. The website lets you change the backround, music, character, and thier speech. I made a sample video, and I realized that this type of video maker can explain the design cycle.  T he other link i compared this to was "create an arcade game". It had all the basic tools to create a video. I choose how to make a video, because it can better explain the design cycle.

Area of Interaction: Community and Service , Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Significant Concept: Design Cycle can be used to solve problems

Unit Question: How can my learning help my community? How do I make Sound Choices?

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) Identify the Problem

1. What is the problem you need to solve? Explain to a 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. (3d, PPT, movie, game, Poster)

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world?

3. How will this project serve my community?

4. How can my learning help my community?

5. How do we live in relation to each other?

6. How does this help others?

7. What are the requirements for this assignment?

8. What is the Design Cycle?

REFLECT on your learning.

Day 2

9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things your learned about the Design Cycle:

Day 3

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment?

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

13. How will you "test" your presentation?

REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING

PLAN:

14. Brainstorm ideas. Use the chart below

IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf found in schoology under “materials”& then files

15. What idea did you choose to demonstrate the design cycle and why did you choose it?

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements?

17. Use the story board paper below to plan your presentation.  Include how many levels you will have, what will be on each level, how will you include teaching skills to young students, and what will your questions be about.

story board.pdf found in schoology under “materials” & then files.

18. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days:

REFLECT on your learning

EVALUATE:

20. How could you improve your presentation?

21. Does your presentation meet all of the requirements?

22. Share your presentation with at least 2-8^th, 3-9^th, 4-10^th+ friends. What did he/she like about your presentation?

23. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve?

24. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer?

25. How can my learning help my community?

26. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6)

ATTITUDE:

27. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard". Explain your answer:

28. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6)