Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Art History Online














I am an Art History student here in France, my teachers tend to want us to do our research in the library, searching through books for important information and siting our references. I did this once. It sucked, took me 5 hours to get anywhere with it. So now I go to the library, pick out some appropriate books, write the titles down and go home to do my Art History online. I find Wikipedia to be a very useful site along with Google for finding smaller, more specific sites. One thing I need to be careful of while doing my work for art history online, however, is the very tempting urge to take the well-written gabber written on wikipedia or other sites and to paste it onto my pretty little paper. NOT A GOOD IDEA. Everyone knows it, but it must be repeated as many people copy and paste anyways. Well, teachers aren't all that stupid so if they see a paper come into them written in a college proffessors hand chances are they'll notice. Don't take the chance - if you really want to do your art history online and copy it, it usually suffices to rearrange the sentances and put some less-appropriate verbes in. Replace many complicated words with simpler, more comprehenisble, but still accurate ones.

The net is great and Art History online studying is a lot faster and easier. I suggest it to the fullest just don't be a dumb sh** and plagerise. Use your brain a tiny little bit. ; ) (and don't forget to use pictures, they help with examples and take up a nice amount of space on the page.)

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