Plagiarism

A reminder to the contributors of Tesserae. As always your contributions, ideas, and questions are very welcome and highy encouraged on this blog. The interactions and contributions of a large community are what make the possibilities of Tesserae so interesting for me. But, please make sure that your contributions are actually your contributions. Please do not simply "cut and past" an entire article from a newspaper, journal, or an online encyclopedia without giving proper credit to the original author. This is an act of plagiarism. You will not receive credit for your contribution and it will be removed from Tesserae. Academic dishonesty hurts everyone involved and could potentially make Tesserae liable for your illegal actions.

If you want to cite a source that relates to the topic you are discussing, of course that is completely acceptable, but you must give proper citation of the original source through a combination of quotation marks and/or links that clearly show the original authorship of the words and ideas you are using. At the minimum you would need to at least write something similar to, "I just read this article in the Washington Post and would like to share it with you." You should still provide a link to the original article. A more preferable original contribution would be that you write your own ideas, responses, questions about the topic that inspired you to want to share the topic in the first place.

Other than the posting of press releases for exhibitions at galleries and museums that might be of interest to the Tesserae community, all posts should reflect some original content and have the intent to hopefully spur conversation about the topic. For the students that are contributing to this blog for class credit, please refer to the provided guidelines.