The First Week of School
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
5:16 AM
By yeeharkk
The most dreadful week of my life, the beginning of a new chapter, the start of a new era. Just joking. This was the start of the school year, the beginning of my Sec 2 life in Hwa Chong. The introduction of our new form teacher, the new 2o1 teacher has been revealed. Mr Eddie Lau, a Geography teacher in the school has taken over from Miss Ng Hooi Hoon. Despite having a new teacher, unlike those that thought us in Sec 1 like Miss Soh and Mr Yong, the rest are new. This is the beginning of the terrifying year that is looming ahead.
The year started with the bad news that just keeps coming. First, there was a new system put in place for Lower Secondary Pupils. The new and devastating subjects called the Oral Communications and Independent Studies. This two subjects are indeed devastating, as it bring the percentage carried by the EOYs to 70%. That also means no ACE and OP are included in the subject. The difficulty is taken to a new level. However, this is life, nothing we can do about it.
The introduction of the new assessment for current affairs, where there will be a teacher in the class and the overall percentage on the subject, Oral Communications, is 60%. Worse of all, there is only one chance, take it or die. To add on to our misery, we have to lose the privileges of ACE and OP, and now have to endure the wrath of the judges, in both the current affairs as well as the Project's Day.
On Tuesday, we immediately incurred another scolding, from Ms Soh. We were chided for an utterly insignificant matter, the failure to bring our laptops despite it being a future class. Why do we always get scolded for insignificant matters? It's all ourselves to blame. The start of the new term, the start of a horrible fate that we hate landed ourselves into.
Why I say that? It all continued going downhill on Thursday, Wednesday being a nearly perfect day. We met our History Teacher, Mr Balan. We received our History assignment. We have to complete 59 questions to do with the WWI. Some of us googled the question, and we have to get scolded by another teacher yet again. Turns out that Mr Balan has copied the questions from the net. That makes it a whole lot easier and most copied their answers.
To end the week, we each received an e-mail from Mr Balan, which states that we had academic misconduct. We had a pop quiz, which is tomorrow and we will have to pass it.
The important point that I am going to discuss plagiarism. Apparently, Mr Balan scolded the 2o2 students today for not observing copyright rules. Sure, many of them have also copied from the Internet like many of us. However, is this really plagiarism or merely research? Though I do believe that this is indeed plagiarism, then isn't Mr Balan not observe copyright rules too? Isn't he plagiarizing the contents on the website? I do not believe that he has the right to scold the students about copyright issues when he is not even following them? To end this post, I would like you to comment on whether or not you agree with me that Mr Balan is just being unreasonable and the definition of plagiarism from Dictionary.com.
Plagiarism
Yee Hark
(2010). Plagiarism Definition | Definition of Plagiarism on Dictionary.com. Retrieved Jan. 20, 2010, from Ask.com. Web site: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism.
The year started with the bad news that just keeps coming. First, there was a new system put in place for Lower Secondary Pupils. The new and devastating subjects called the Oral Communications and Independent Studies. This two subjects are indeed devastating, as it bring the percentage carried by the EOYs to 70%. That also means no ACE and OP are included in the subject. The difficulty is taken to a new level. However, this is life, nothing we can do about it.
The introduction of the new assessment for current affairs, where there will be a teacher in the class and the overall percentage on the subject, Oral Communications, is 60%. Worse of all, there is only one chance, take it or die. To add on to our misery, we have to lose the privileges of ACE and OP, and now have to endure the wrath of the judges, in both the current affairs as well as the Project's Day.
On Tuesday, we immediately incurred another scolding, from Ms Soh. We were chided for an utterly insignificant matter, the failure to bring our laptops despite it being a future class. Why do we always get scolded for insignificant matters? It's all ourselves to blame. The start of the new term, the start of a horrible fate that we hate landed ourselves into.
Why I say that? It all continued going downhill on Thursday, Wednesday being a nearly perfect day. We met our History Teacher, Mr Balan. We received our History assignment. We have to complete 59 questions to do with the WWI. Some of us googled the question, and we have to get scolded by another teacher yet again. Turns out that Mr Balan has copied the questions from the net. That makes it a whole lot easier and most copied their answers.
To end the week, we each received an e-mail from Mr Balan, which states that we had academic misconduct. We had a pop quiz, which is tomorrow and we will have to pass it.
The important point that I am going to discuss plagiarism. Apparently, Mr Balan scolded the 2o2 students today for not observing copyright rules. Sure, many of them have also copied from the Internet like many of us. However, is this really plagiarism or merely research? Though I do believe that this is indeed plagiarism, then isn't Mr Balan not observe copyright rules too? Isn't he plagiarizing the contents on the website? I do not believe that he has the right to scold the students about copyright issues when he is not even following them? To end this post, I would like you to comment on whether or not you agree with me that Mr Balan is just being unreasonable and the definition of plagiarism from Dictionary.com.
Plagiarism
- the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work
Yee Hark
(2010). Plagiarism Definition | Definition of Plagiarism on Dictionary.com. Retrieved Jan. 20, 2010, from Ask.com. Web site: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism.
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