Please answer the following questions, and give reasons for each of your answers.
- How would you feel if a co-worker took the credit for your ideas?
- How do you think it might impact you professionally if it became known that you submitted a report containing large portions copied from another source, without crediting that source?
- What do you think might happen if you were to submit an article for publication in a professional journal, and you had not attributed material you quoted or paraphrased to its source?
- What other situations can you think of, in which the originator of an idea or piece of work would want to be given credit?
- Do you think people make too much of a big deal about who owns what intellectual property or who came up with what ideas?