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Discussion:

As a high school math teacher, I have not had much experience with scholarly writing. I don't really even remember doing much of it in college either. I know that citing your sources is important, I just don't think that most teachers know how to teach scholarly writing to their students because they don't know how to cite sources properly either. There hasn't really been much emphasis on teaching teachers how to do this and how important it is for teachers and students to better understand and respect intellectual property. I wasn't made aware of all of the laws until starting this master's program. I think there is a lot of information concerning copyright that teachers and students aren't aware of. I created an assignment using technology where one of the main criteria for their grade was to "cite sources used". Even though it was written several times in the directions and listed on the rubric as one of the main criteria, several groups failed to cite their sources at all, which resulted in about a 10 point deduction in their grade. I think teachers need to be trained better, especially in citing resources from the internet, so that they may then teach their students on the proper way to cite sources.

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