When I was in grade school and our teacher assigned a research paper, my friends and I walked the two blocks to the local library for information. Most of the time our research consisted of copying text from the encyclopedia. My parents weren’t always around in the evenings and it was very rare for someone to check my homework word for word, mostly they asked if it was done. One day, my father read one of my reports and took issue. “Do you realize you’re copying, not writing?” Um..yeah. “Is that wrong,” I asked? My father, who was a librarian [Read more…]