Monday, November 17, 2008

2007's Instructions

I have written my essay, submitted it to turnitin.com, took a print out of the essay and also the instruction page. When I came to class I was feeling comfortable, because I was thinking that I have done everything that I was supposed to be doing. 
But I could never imagine the sillyness that I did the other night. Accidentally, I opened the Instruction page for 2007 and wrote my whole essay following the 2007's instructions.!!! So I used quotations in every body paragraph and even in the introduction of the essay:)
Now I'm laughing because I have fixed everything, but at the time I learned what I have done, I was absolutely terrified!
I figured out that we were supposed to do paraphrasing instead of quoting. 
So I had to change a lot from my 1st Draft.
It was hard, but at least I have learned to be more careful when I'm looking at a instruction page:)

1 comment:

David said...

I hope you understand that even if the instructions had allowed you to quote, you had quoted too much and inappropriately anyway. So, the problem wasn't just that you had followed the wrong instructions.