Ok so here goes my first blog post!
Well I was very surprised to find out that copying recipes was not plagiarism even if they came out of a cookbook. I guess I just always considered that copying anything out of a book would be plagiarism without giving reference to the author. But that does make sense because so many recipes have similarities and there are billions of recipes. Unless someone said they had invented a recipe and it was what their book was based or something like that I think it is ok to copy recipes.
I thought it was really funny when the author was talking about how the chef at the restaurant Interlude had committed culinary plagiarism. I think this shows how much of a fine line there is between plagiarizing and not plagiarizing. Because had he changed the plating of the dish to where it did not look the same but used all the same ingredients I’m sure his dish would have gone unnoticed. I think a lot of plagiarizing goes unnoticed mostly by the people who do it. Like if you use a website for facts about like an animal or something you have to cite the websites you used or that’s plagiarism. I think I remember someone last year in this class getting in a lot of trouble for doing that but she didn’t even realize that she had done anything wrong at all. It’s hard to say whether or not someone should be punished for unintentional plagiarism. It’s still plagiarism so I guess the best advice for that is to make sure that you are fully informed on what plagiarizing is and isn’t before you use a website for anything.
But anyway, about the cookbooks, I agree with the author when he says that the cookbooks were not much of an original idea. There are only so many ways that you can hide vegetables in kid’s foods and I’m sure that the cookbooks like these that came out before the two mentioned in the article had very similar recipes. I don’t think that Ms.Seinfeld plagiarized in the book that she wrote I just think that they both had similar recipes because of the type of cookbook that it was.
Ok so about the other article first off WOW I didn’t realize there were so many websites for free term papers. I don’t think I would ever trust those websites because I don’t think anyone ever gets their money’s worth. I mean you pay like $80.00 for a paper that you may still have to fix and rewrite and spell check a lot of things I just don’t think that’s worth it. I could write a really bad paper in like a couple of hours if I just absolutely had to and that’s a lot better than getting expelled for wasting your money.
The website had some questions that we could answer and one was Why do you think high schools allow (and even encourage) the act that society disapproves of? Is there a mixed message there? Is this talking about plagiarism because my high school was pretty strict on plagiarizing I remember my English teacher reporting quite a few people to the principal for plagiarizing papers… well that’s the end hope I did ok
3 comments:
Ok so your blog made me smile and laugh a little. I love the part where you start talking about how you really do not get your money’s worth buying papers from those websites and I totally agree. I also agree with you statement, and I found it pretty funny, that you could just write a really bad paper in a couple of hours and it would basically be better than a paper that you bought for like $80 of some site. I feel the same in that I feel like it would just be easier and a lot less stressful to write my own and not have to check over someone else's for errors. I also agreed with you when you talked about the fine line between plagiarizing and not plagiarizing and that if that chef had just changed the appearance of those dishes that it most likely would have gone unnoticed.Overall I found your blog really interesting and I felt as if you wrote it exactly like you talk, which is good and made me smile because I could see you saying all of it!
So, I agree with you that it's so strange that you can just take a recipe and it's not really plagiarism. I mean it is, but it isn't. That's why plagarism and everything dealing with it is so confusing, because there is like you said such a fine line between intentional, unintentional, etc. I also agree with what you said about writing your own paper. I have so many things I would rather buy than a paper. You know they could just write the paper, and use that $80 bucks to treat themselves for being so intelectual, hah, not that anyone would do that. But I definitely agree with the stuff you said, and found it to be very understandable.
So i agree with you on how some things are and are not plagiarizing. I dont see how a recipe could be plagiarizing but then how couldnt it be? I believe that writing your own paper is the only way you should do it. Like you said you would prob get a worse grade on a paper you buy then on a one you take a little bit of your time to write. Because your still going to have to read over it , fix errors, correct prob everything because there not good papers. Its better to just write the paper yourself.I wouldnt pay $80 for something that i can prob do better and get a better grade on. I would use that money for something else.
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