This week’s readings were mostly about plagiarism and ethical writing. This seems like we are beating a dead horse, as I’ve heard about plagiarism what seems like a hundred times over. I think these readings would have been more relevant for our white paper project, but maybe not so much for this project. But that may just be true for my group and not everyone. I know in the white paper project my group paid a lot of attention to making sure we cited sources and credited where we got our charts and pictures. I feel like I am a pretty good writer, and I always take care in crediting proper sources. It’s easy as a student writer to accidently not cite something, and then your professor ends up thinking you meant to do that and you meant to cheat. I actually had a problem kind of like this last year in an OLS class. We had to submit our papers to turnitin.com so they could be checked for plagiarism before we turned them into the teacher. Though I had really paid attention to citing sources and documenting things properly, the website still came back with highlighting saying I had copied from a source I had never even seen before. In that situation, the writing I had come up with on my own had been similar to what someone else had written as well. It was a complete coincidence, and the website was telling me I was cheating. This made me pretty mad, because I was honestly not trying to cheat at all. I think one day in the future people will have written so many things that it will be nearly impossible to craft a new piece of writing without being told you copied from somewhere. There are only so many ways to write about the same topic that thousands of other people have written about before you. Anyways, the other readings this week were about gender and being fair in the workplace. I don’t really see how this relates to our client based service learning project, though it was interesting to read about. I personally have a lot of guy friends, and they all make jokes aimed at women a lot. This is common on a larger scale as well, and this reading from PWOnline pointed out that it’s something that should change. There are also small gender references which we may not pay attention to as often, but still show a bias. These are words such as policeman, where it would be proper to say police officer, and businessman where one should say business person.