Some of you are probably wondering how taking an online class works. Well, it involves a lot of reading and a lot of posting to online discussion boards.
And just when you are about to go nuts from doing that, there is the writing. I now have two assignments left for my Intro class, and one for my Young Adults class. One from each of those categories is due mid-December at the end of the semester.
The remaining one is due in a week. 2500 words on an issue selected from a list. Ten sources. I have selected "Information Ethics" as my issue.
I would like to write "if someone is informationally unethical, punch him or her in the face," but I don't think that would fly. And it wouldn't be very informative, anyway, not to mention ethical. Instead, I will write 2500 words about "Libraries, Privacy and the U.S. Government," because that is the issue for which the library where I work has the most books.
And we all know that in the world of college research papers, the one who finds the most books semi-related to a given topic wins.
The other assignment I just completed allowed me to write about a book that I like, then record myself pretending to be an old lady. That was much more fun. But then, I suppose that if everything were fun, we wouldn't know what fun was because we would have nothing to compare it to. Isn't that funny?
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We're not talking about general ethics here, Heta, just information ethics. I definitely think you should at least include that line in your paper.
Or, you could include is as a "quote" in italics on the cover page, and credit yourself for the quote before proceeding to present your actual own paper.
I wish all classes were online. It seems like that would have been... too fun... to be true. Someday, though. Let's add rules so that future people can do that.
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