My experience with microsoft word as a student has been extensive, it is surely the most used application on my computer, as would be expected of an english major. I also had teachers who made writing the staple of their curriculum throughout middle and high school so even before my days as an english major, microsoft word didn't get too many days off. My experience as I've seen teachers use it has been relatively limited, unless the papers and whatnot they handed out that had been typed on microsoft word. The microsoft program I typically saw most used by teachers has always been powerpoint.
To be frank, in my experience as a student in the age of technology, I really did not see plaigerism committed or existing as a problem to the degree it was always stressed to be. Whether or not that came as a product of the students in my classes or if it truly not as much a problem as people believed, i don't know. If i were an instructor, in an attempt to curb the issue of copyright infringement, I would focus on developing writing through creative writing rather than simple research/summary, additionally I would have the majority of my writing assignments unannounced in class and handwritten.
Three issues I may propose a solution to are copyright, academic honesty, and privacy. I would do all this by making readings the only work that students do at home, and all assignments, such as an in-class essay on the readings in class. The silent setting makes cheating hard and it is very hard to copy another's essay and get away with it, additionally the students privacy would be respected because only they, then i, then they, will have or see a copy of their work.
To be frank, in my experience as a student in the age of technology, I really did not see plaigerism committed or existing as a problem to the degree it was always stressed to be. Whether or not that came as a product of the students in my classes or if it truly not as much a problem as people believed, i don't know. If i were an instructor, in an attempt to curb the issue of copyright infringement, I would focus on developing writing through creative writing rather than simple research/summary, additionally I would have the majority of my writing assignments unannounced in class and handwritten.
Three issues I may propose a solution to are copyright, academic honesty, and privacy. I would do all this by making readings the only work that students do at home, and all assignments, such as an in-class essay on the readings in class. The silent setting makes cheating hard and it is very hard to copy another's essay and get away with it, additionally the students privacy would be respected because only they, then i, then they, will have or see a copy of their work.
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