Plagiarism Pledge

Raise your right hand and repeat after me:

I __________ (your name) promise not to copy and paste text from the Internet to place on MyEC. I will only post my own writing. I understand that I do not learn any English when I copy and paste. I will follow the rules when quoting another writer by using the directions on EnglishClub's page. I also promise not to upload photos that I do not have permission to use.Instead, I will provide a link to photos that interest me online. I understand that the most interesting photos to my friends are the ones I take myself. I will provide titles and descriptions for these photos when I upload them to MyEC. If I need a photo that I do not have, I will choose a photo from a clipart site or free image gallery and provide a source. Finally, I will not upload music or videos unless I have permission to share these. After I take this pledge I will take a moment to look through my page and groups and remove any copyright protected content that I added in the past.

Please write your name in the comments after you take the pledge. You can also record the pledge and add it to your music player. Thank you for respecting the work of writers, artists, and photographers! Remember, the best way to learn is to use your own words.

*Note. The images in my posts are from a clipart gallery that I subscribe to. You can also try Creative Commons sections of Flickr and Stock Xng. If you have not paid for permission to use photos, make sure you provide a link to the photographer. Please ask me if you need more details.

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Admin Comment by Tara Benwell on May 5, 2011 at 20:00: @Zuli Please don't use it unless you can be sure you have permission from the photographer or if it's in the public domain or creative commons. Thanks! You can try googling the keyword of the image. Maybe you'll find it again. Great question.

Comment by Zulkifli Alinazar on May 5, 2011 at 19:00: When you have saved an image from the internet into your computer and you don't remember anymore from what page it was taken and on the other side you think it will be beneficial to show it to your members, what would to do then Tara ?

Comment by das solhou on February 28, 2011 at 20:08: I promise to post only my writing.

Comment by ERNA E ADRIL on June 1, 2010 at 4:00: I really like My English Club, forever
because it's very helpfull for me as a teacher and I can expole my experience
here

Comment by ERNA E ADRIL on June 1, 2010 at 3:58: I like My English Club forever, because it's
very helpful as a teacher and I can develop my competence of English

Comment by Gunawan on May 26, 2010 at 10:17: Couldn't agree more. Promise to post my own.

Admin Comment by Tara Benwell on May 10, 2010 at 13:50: Thank you all for taking the pledge. MyEC is becoming a much more creative space because of all of you!

Comment by vnp on May 3, 2010 at 12:24: I promise that i will not copy text from internet.I will post my own writings

Comment by Bùi xuân Hiếu on April 24, 2010 at 21:09: HI... I swear that I only use my own writing....I don't think that we can improve our English skills by use other one 's writing.But we can read so much to improve our word.