Yay, Alex for president!

In honour of Alex Schorr, the only boy in the cooperative learning class to get a distinction for the English April Exam, here is a poem by his most favourite poet, regarding the apostrophe:

twould be nice to be
an apostrophe
floating above an s
hovering like a paper kite
in between the its
eavesdropping, tiptoeing
high above the thats
an inky comet
spiralling
the highest tossed
of hats

by Roger McGough, 1976

Plagiarism

Hi guys - I sent this to y'all as an email, but here it is again, for your perusal...

Dear boys

Preparing young men for life – not for prison

This past term, PLAGIARISM has reared its ugly head at St Alban’s College. We love that each of you has a zebra tie and a student number, and we would hate to see you in another kind of striped suit with another kind of number printed on your back… Therefore, we are adopting a zero tolerance approach to plagiarism, with immediate effect.

Please check out the following link for a full definition and explanation of plagiarism, and its implications, in South Africa:

http://www.researchnavigator.com/phguide/content/OneSearch-Append-A2006.pdf

Staff will use Google, as well as the following anti-plagiarism websites, to detect plagiarism in your work, should we suspect that you have conveniently borrowed another’s intellectual property and passed it off as your own:

www.essayrater.com
www.mydropbox.com
http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed98/mhricko.html
http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html http://www.asee.org/prism/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu
http://turnitin.com

You are encouraged always to submit to your teacher both a hard and soft (email) copy of any essay or assignment that you complete.

Our College is built on trust relationships, and I know we can rely on your cooperation, and your commitment to academic excellence and transparency!

Kind regards

Ma’am Reyburn