There was recently a question about posting essays from a class on StoryWrite. On the assumption that there are others who wonder if this is all right—in addition to the fact that I have some of my own class essays on here—I am making this column in the hopes that it answers any questions you may have.
There is no official rule written on having classwork here, but there are rules (and laws) which it can be related to.
The first one is the plagiarism rule. If anything in what you've posted contains copyrighted material, it could be deemed against site policy. If you have a little (tiny) bit of information from a book, then it should be fine as long as you cite your source appropriately in your author's notes.
Second: cheating. You cannot post anything asking for answers or edits if it is for a class that is for a grade. Also, it would be best to post these essays after the assignment is either turned in or returned to you, as your teacher may find it on the Internet and accuse you of cheating.
Some suggestions:
Research papers and book reports both tend to have a lot of copyrighted material, so it's best not to post these as original stories.
If it's an informative or persuasive essay with copyrighted (and cited) material, its purpose would be served best as a column.
--Sidenote: if all of the information is from your own personal experience (not books you've experienced) then it should be okay as a story.
Personal essays (narrative, descriptive, etc.) are usually all stories which come from the narrator's own experience. These are A-okay as they are original stories (whether fiction or non-)
Finally, please don't just post classwork on here just for the sole purpose of storage. If you would like to do that, I give you two options: 1- Send the file to your own e-mail & 2- Create a Google Documents account at docs.google.com (this comes with Gmail if you'd rather just make an account there (mail.google.com)).
Just follow this and you should be fine. If you have any questions, please post them in the comments section. If it's something I feel should be addressed in this, I'll add it to the column.
Ever have an essay you're so proud of you just want to show it off? Maybe on here? This will tell you what is and what isn't allowed.
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Thanks for the column Shankus.
I would put my Macbeth essay on here, but I can't get it back til the end of the school year.
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I've been considering posting a piece of creative non-fiction on here. It's science writing, a piece I wrote about science but for the common person to enjoy reading it. It has several citations in it - not plagiarism (obviously, since it's cited), but citations nonetheless. The thing is, it's written for entertainment value. Any suggestions?
Good column, by the way. I'll bet this is helpful to a lot of people.
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On something like that, it would depend on the amount that it taken from other sources. Even when cited, if a majority of the post is from other sources, then it's not really 'yours', and would fall under copyright.
There's no magic number for the percentage... it would be based on word count, resource references, how they are cited, etc. -
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It's like an essay - I don't think there are actually any direct quotes, but facts etcetera are cited so people know I didn't make them up. All of the writing is actually mine.
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I'm still awaiting judgment from Barbara, so some things might be changed
I'll get back to you on that one though
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