Responce to Klosterman and Gabriel

One part of Klosterman's, "Ha ha," he said, "ha ha", that I thought was really funny was his anecdotal example from his childhood. He said that when he was younger he used to sit really close to the television during his favorite show and laugh as hard as he could. He did this because he thought his television worked as a telephone and everyone could hear him laughing, as they could hear him. He use this example to show his first experience with track laughs. I pictured this happening as I read and found it to be very funny. I think that track laughs are a very outdated thing. When I was younger a lot of television programs had track laughs with them and I thought that they were normal. Now most of the shows I watch do not have them. I agree with Klosterman's story about his experience in Germany and how most of his conversations were filled with meaningless laughter. I believe that laughter works today to fill conversations in order to avoid awkwardness. For example: If someone texts something with "haha" following it sounds less serious, when in reality it could be very serious. This is also why my generation uses text more often today. Saying how you feel in text is a lot less awkward than saying it in person. I also agree with Klosterman when he discusses how people are left to think more without track laughs. People can and will determine for themselves more without the use of track laughs.

I feel that Gabriel does a good job at explaining the meaning of plagiarism between ages in, "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age." In my college career I have found writing to be very different than from in high school. I agree with the following statement from Ms. Wilensky in an interview. "The main reason it occurs, she said, is because students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing." In my experience, I have become a much better writer with the more writing classes I take in college. I do believe that high school level English classes do not take on plagiarism as strong as they should, especially with the overload of information available to students today. I think that some students do find really good information from their research, but they do not know how to form it correctly in a paper. This is where plagiarism occurs.