ESL Blogs

Nowadays EC bloggers has been sprouting like mushrooms. This is good news for EC. It means so many members are sharing their views, stories and just anything on earth. I love reading blogs in EC, well except maybe poems. But it peeves me when I read a very interesting blog and found out it's taken from another site(s) and written by someone else without proper citation by EC blogger(s). 

When I read a wonderful blog, I would feel amazed that such blogger could come up with fantastic view/writing. But sometimes, a simple word or sentence would trigger something in me which prompted me to check through the wonder of internet about that particular sentence. 

It saddened me when my instinct about the blog turned out to be true. It was taken from someone's else writing. I feel cheated. Something too good to be true was really turned out to be a plagiarized work. 

Most of us in here are English learners. I don't think anyone expect us to write a perfectly written English blog. We are learners after all, so it's common to make a mistake or two or millions in our blogs, though we should learn from those mistakes. We should not be embarrassed to write a blog in our own words, but we should totally be ASHAMED for taking someone else ideas and writing and presented it as our own work.

Don't cheat your friends and EC members. Be honest! Don't plagiarize!

Cheers.