Nov. 19th Post

For this class we were required to read chapter ten on "Legal and Ethical Considerations for Writers". I found much of this section surprising but informative. Legal and ethical matters are important to consider when writing non-fiction pieces, so I think this section was entirely relevant to our works completed in this course. Before reading this section, I thought you could only get in trouble for plagiarizing. However, this chapter revealed to me that there is a lot more to writing and publishing than I thought. Some of the sections I found to be much like common sense, which was even reinforced in the final paragraph. I found the paragraphs about quoting individuals particularly helpful, because I often wondered how to correctly quote my interviewees. Many of the sections gave specific names and terms for ideas I was already aware of.